* Unlike other western nations, Germany's public has been interested and concerned about Saudi Arabia's record on suppressing minorities and women, as well as lending help to organizations affiliated with violent extremism. With four out of five Germans indicating...
The Pentagon's Defense Business Bureau, an advisory group designed to give private sector expertise to senior leaders, announced its global analysis of DoD practices found potential savings of about $25 billion per year, to be squeezed mostly out of logistics,...
* A Mexican drug operation appears to have operationalized cross-border drug smuggling with helicopter drones. One device - what appears to be a DJI SPreadwings S900 Multi-rotor System, which retails for $1,400 - fell into a Tijuana parking lot after being loaded with...
Preveze Class(click to view larger) In 2006, the Turkish SSM procurement agency issued a request for information (RFI) for 4 more diesel-electric submarines. That RFI became an RFP for 6 diesel-electric submarines with air-independent propulsion systems, to replace...
It may yet be a decade or two before the U.S. has an appetite for another "generation" increment for its fighters, but Boeing and Northrop Grumman are hungry now. Northrop is touting its new design teams dedicated to generating capabilities for the Navy and Air Forces...
* Military bases are often home to environmental disasters, and mitigation costs are significant enough today that it exerts a real and behavior-changing influence on the U.S. military. But the liabilities are not considered "strict liabilities" as federal Superfund...
* The Government Accountability Office, fielding a protest by a would-be contractor who couldn't find a solicitation due to a certain field not having been filled out in the FedBizOpps database, sided with the Veterans Administration in holding that it is the vendors...
Latest update: Critical Design Review, milestone schedule. Looking a little dated(click to view full) In March 2010 the Navy awarded an $83 million contract for e-CASS development, production and testing. The AN/USM-636(V) Consolidated Automated Support System (CASS)...
* Russian development of a new cruise missile and submarine forays into NATO waters have elicited complaints from Washington Russia has violated a key arms control agreement (the INF Treaty), and could cause the U.S. to redeploy cruise missiles in Europe. Russia has...