by Tig Tillinghast | Oct 5, 2005 | Budgets, Force Structure, Issues - Political, Transformation
Yes Mr. Stevens, er, Santa,I’d like a BRAC exemption A tiff arising over where to place a slew of relatively non-controversial amendments and a stalled defense authorization bill has Senate majority committee chairs at loggerheads, stymieing both the...
by Tig Tillinghast | Oct 5, 2005 | Airbus, Aircraft, Contracts - Awards, European Union (EU), Forces - Air, L3 Communications, Partnerships & Consortia, Power Projection, Raytheon, Transport & Utility
EADS’ CN-235 & C-295 Raytheon and its European partner EADS are hoping that the Army’s Future Cargo Aircraft program will be decided with an emphasis for cargo space – something their CN-235s and C-295s have in great abundance. Competitor L-3...
by Tig Tillinghast | Oct 5, 2005 | Avionics, Electronics - General, Fuel & Power, Materials Innovations, Missiles - Air-Air, Missiles - Anti-Armor, Missiles - Anti-Ship, Missiles - Ballistic, Missiles - Precision Attack, Missiles - Surface-Air
The Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson AFB awarded a $10 million cost plus fixed fee contract to Enser Corp. of Pinellas Park (FA8650-04-C-5705), FL to create over the next six years a manufactory to produce cobalt disulfide base thermal batteries....
by Tig Tillinghast | Oct 5, 2005 | Aircraft, Boeing, Budgets, Fighters & Attack, Forces - Air, Forces - Marines, Forces - Naval, Lockheed Martin, Northrop-Grumman
F/A-22 Raptor(click to enlarge) AFA reports on Gordon England’s upcoming new air power review that seems designed to provide the analysis needed to make further cuts in the F/A-22 and F-35 programs. England, who awaits confirmation to be deputy secretary of...
by Tig Tillinghast | Oct 5, 2005 | Air Reconnaissance, Aircraft, China, Israel, Scandals & Investigations, Specialty Aircraft
IL-76MF vs. C-130H Israel’s Globes reports that the Israeli police are investigating IAI executives for taking bribes to award exclusive sales territories. They allege that two procurement and marketing agents for IAI “heavily bribed” senior...
