by Joe Katzman | Dec 22, 2005 | Airbus, Europe - Other, Issues - Political, Legal, Lobbying, Other Corporation, Scandals & Investigations
Pandur II Back in February 2005, DID covered a EUR 280 million ($482 million) Portuguese contract for 260 Pandur II 8×8 wheeled Armored Personnel Carriers. Now one of the finalists in that competition is crying foul – and stating that they have proof....
by Joe Katzman | Dec 22, 2005 | Asia - Other, Boeing, Contracts - Awards, Fighters & Attack, Heavy Bombers, Middle East - Other, Specialty Aircraft, Support & Maintenance, Transport & Utility, USA
B-1B: “Power” by Dru Blair(click to view full) Boeing’s Aerospace Support division in Oklahoma City, OK received an $18.8 million ceiling-priced, indefinite-delivery/ indefinite-quantity contract to instruct and train fleet personnel in the...
by Joe Katzman | Dec 22, 2005 | Bases & Infrastructure, Contracts - Awards, Engineer Units, Other Corporation, USA
Manson Construction Co. in Seattle, WA received a $9.1 million firm-fixed-price contract for Maintenance Dredging of the Federal Navigation Channels of Ventura Harbor, CA. Work is expected to be complete by March 13, 2006. Bids were solicited via the World Wide Web on...
by Joe Katzman | Dec 21, 2005 | Americas - Other, Asia - Central, Contracts - Awards, Design Innovations, Engineer Units, Field Innovations, Field Reports, Lobbying, Middle East - Other, New Systems Tech, Other Corporation, Partnerships & Consortia, Procurement Innovations, Project Methodologies, Public Partnering, R&D - Contracted, Robots, USA, Warfare - Lessons, Warfare - Trends
BOMBOT Past DID articles covering the future of ground robots on the battlefield and the MTRS TALON/Packbot surveillance and explosives disposal robots both noted a role for smaller examples, from Dragon Runner “Throwbots” to Exponent’s...
by Joe Katzman | Dec 21, 2005 | Avionics, Boeing, Contracts - Awards, Delivery & Task Orders, Fighters & Attack, Support & Maintenance, Support Functions - Other, USA
AV-8B attack run(click to view full) DID has covered the V/STOL(Vertical/Short Take-Off and Landing) AV-8B Harrier II’s improvement of its flying record, and the discovery of its niche among the rough airfields of Afghanistan and the urban warfare scenarios of...
