* National Defense magazine: "With Gates' Proposals, the Edge Of the Perfect Storm Comes Ashore" * China Resurgent: DoD's overdue report to Congress on China's military capabilities says China is beefing up its ballistic and cruise missiles, naval, and air defense...
* South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak lays out a 3-step process for reunification of the peninsula. It is not a return to his predecessor's anti-American "sunshine policy," and includes a reunification tax to begin preparing for the massive costs of either peaceful...
* Britain's new defence minister Liam Fox outlines the process and considerations they'll use when thinking through Britain's defense spending during the 2010 strategic review. * Canada's DND announces C$ 209 million worth of infrastructure projects at CFB Borden,...
* To Russia, with Sub: Russia's Zvezdochka shipyard begins an $80 million overhaul of India's S63 INS Sindhurakshak submarine, an improved Kilo-class diesel-electric submarine that Russia built for India. * Simulated Revenues: Canada's CAE expects a 10-12% rise in...
AAQ-24 on AH-64(click to view full) Northrop Grumman Systems Corp. in Rolling Meadows, IL recently receive an unfinalized contract estimated at $77.7 million for 121 AN/AAQ-24v25 Guardian laser transmitter assemblies for installation on US Navy and USMC CH-53D Sea...
* India's comptroller and auditor general criticizes the Defense Ministry's plans to build an army carbine factory in Amethi, northeast India, for poor site selection, defective planning, and hasty decision making. * Meanwhile, the Indian Navy is proceeding with a...
Civil AW139(click to view full) Finmeccanica recently announced about EUR 180 million (about $234 million) in contracts from Panama to its subsidiaries SELEX Sistemi Integrati, AgustaWestland, and Telespazio. They will combine to offer Panama a one-stop cartography...
Lockheed Martin Corp. in Eagan, MN recently received an $8 million contract to design and develop "highly integrated photonic devices for transition into current emerging tactical platforms for the Air Force." Optical integrated circuits would have a wide variety of...
GPSMAP 696 Small business qualifier The Gyro House in Auburn, CA received a $6.6 million firm-fixed-price order via the General Services Administration (GSA) schedule for the procurement of 1,462 Garmin GPSMAP 696 units for the US Army (789) and US Navy (673). They'll...