by Joe Katzman | Oct 18, 2005 | Coastal & Littoral, Contracts - Awards, Contracts - Modifications, Design Innovations, Electronics - General, Forces - Special Ops, General Dynamics, Missiles - Precision Attack, New Systems Tech, Northrop-Grumman, Nuclear Weapons, Power Projection, Procurement Innovations, R&D - Contracted, Submarines, Transformation, Underwater Weapons, USA
From these… Back on May 20, 2005, DID covered advance materials procurement as part of the program to modify one of the USA’s Ohio Class SSBN nuclear missile subs to become long range conventional strike and special operations SSGN “Tactical...
by Joe Katzman | Oct 18, 2005 | After-Action Reviews, Forces - Air, Projections & Assessments, Support Functions - Other, T&C - RAND Corp., USA
RAND Corp. in Santa Monica, CA received a $210.6 million cost-reimbursement plus fee-for-need contract to provide for RAND Project Air Force, Research of Air and Space Power. Originally known as Project RAND (an acronym for research and development), PAF was...
by Joe Katzman | Oct 18, 2005 | After-Action Reviews, Avionics, Boeing, Fighters & Attack, Lockheed Martin, Official Reports, Policy - Procurement, Project Failures, Project Management, Project Methodologies, T&C - RAND Corp., USA
Since the late 1980s, the U.S. Air Force has pursued the F/A-22 Raptor supersonic stealth fighter that incorporated numerous breakthrough technologies, while the US Navy developed the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet based on the existing F/A-18. Unsurprisingly, the F/A-22...
by Joe Katzman | Oct 18, 2005 | Contracts - Awards, Engines & Propulsion - Naval, France, Nuclear Weapons, Other Corporation, Procurement Innovations, Submarines, Support & Maintenance, Surface Ships - Combat
FNS Le Temeraire The French Navy has awarded shipbuilder DCN a pair of contracts to support French warships. The contracts are worth EUR 288.5 million (about $350 million), and cover a wide variety of platforms including the helicopter carrier Jeanne d’Arc,...
by Joe Katzman | Oct 18, 2005 | C4ISR, Design Innovations, Electronics - General, Expeditionary Warfare, Field Innovations, IT - General, IT - Networks & Bandwidth, IT - Software & Integration, L3 Communications, New Systems Tech, Northrop-Grumman, Other Corporation, Other Equipment - Land, Partnerships & Consortia, Transformation, USA
SICPS Deployed(click to view full) Northrop Grumman Corporation recently rolled out the U.S. Army’s first two high-tech command post systems built under the Standardized Integrated Command Post System (SICPS) program. These common design, mobile, digitized...
