Entries within category: Oshkosh (defense contracting taxonomy)

Rapid Fire: 2010-02-24

23-Feb-2010 20:50 EST

USAF is expected to issue final terms for $35 billion aerial tanker competition this week.

DEW Line: who is behind the dual-sourcing lobby for KC-X?

USA to retire its BGM-109A nuclear Tomahawk cruise missiles.

Dutch cabinet collapse freezes F-35 buy [in Dutch]; plane may become an election issue.

Oshkosh to sell $500 million in senior notes to repay debt.

USAF: No, we aren’t buying the airborne laser.

What’s next for BAE’s Mantis close-support UCAV?

Jacobs secures $38.7 million contract to support transition of Navy Marine Corps Intranet to the NGEN network.

Rapid Fire: 2010-02-02

01-Feb-2010 22:00 EST

Taiwan prepares to order a $6.45 billion weapons package, sparks predictable diplomatic huffing.

The Pentagon plans to replace the official in charge of the F-35 JSF program and withhold $614 million in performance fees from Lockheed Martin for failing to meet key goals. At the same time Pratt & Whitney delivered the 1st F135 production engine for the F-35 aircraft.

Sikorsky is investing $1 billion to develop an unmanned Black Hawk helicopter, which it hopes to have ready by 2015.

USS George H.W. Bush [CVN 77] redelivered; its strike group will soon have the first female CSG commander in US Navy history.

Shares of major US defense companies gained in trading following the unveiling of the Obama administration’s FY 2011 defense budget that would increase defense spending by 3.4%.

The US Missile Defense Agency (MDA) had another setback in its effort to build a ballistic missile defense, when its Sea-Based X-band radar failed to track a target missile during a test at the Kwajalein Atoll in the South Pacific. MDA is also looking for a supplier for its target missiles.

Prime contractor CSC gets $261 million in orders to provide IT and logistics services under the US Army’s Logistics Modernization Program.

USAF orders more of Lockheed’s Sniper ATP surveillance & targeting pods.

Rolls Royce scores a $146 million order to provide another year of C-130J fleet engine support.

Singapore unveils its new G550 AWACS aircraft.

Raytheon/Boeing’s JAGM missile contender finishes captive test flights.

Raytheon BBN announces a successful ad-hoc networking experiment under DARPA’s WNaN effort.

Rapid Fire: 2010-01-25

25-Jan-2010 21:07 EST

EMB-314 Super Tucano turboprops for Indonesia? How about Britain?

Human Terrain System intel program, rebooted.

UAE doubles down on Italian Commandanti Class variant corvettes. Original $117 million order for 2 placed during IDEX 2009.

USAF announces shift in C-17’s sustainment plans.

SBIRS-High missile warning satellite program inches ahead.

RQ-7 Shadow UAVs for Pakistan

Another month, another Predator UAV crash.

Elbit laser designators to Israel, “North American customers”.

US Army incorporates front-line lessons into a standardized advanced marksmanship course.

Oshkosh to research light aluminum/ magnesium alloys with the strength of cast steel.

Tweets from spaaaaace!

Free IT security careers webinar, specifically directed at members of the military. Hosted by USAF Lt. Col. Paul Capicik (Ret.) of American Sentinel University. Tuesday, January 26th, 1 pm CST. Register.

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