by Joe Katzman | Jan 4, 2006 | Airbus, BAE, Britain/U.K., Europe - Other, Events, Finmeccanica, France, Germany, Issues - International, Issues - Political, L3 Communications, Mergers & Acquisitions, Other Corporation, Sensors - Aquatic, Surface Ships - Combat, Thales
In a recent DID article covering the ‘merger’ of Thales Naval France into DCN, DID noted Thales’ bid for Bremen-based naval electronics firm and sonar specialist Atlas Elecktronik. Thales took great pains to insist that this naval merger did not make...
by Joe Katzman | Jan 4, 2006 | Contracts - Intent, Issues - Political, Lobbying, Lockheed Martin, Policy - Procurement, Transport & Utility, USA
C-130J(click to view full) Bloomberg reports that Lockheed Martin Corp. may receive $1.15 billion for 26 C-130J Hercules transport aircraft over the next two years under a December 14, 2005 memo approved by Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England. The memo includes...
by Joe Katzman | Jan 4, 2006 | Contracts - Awards, Electronics - General, Missiles - Surface-Air, Protective Systems - Naval, Raytheon, USA
SM-2 Launch w. AEGIS(click to view full) Raytheon Co. in Tucson, AZ received a $235.7 million firm-fixed-price contract in for the production of the FY06 Standard Missile-2 Block IIIA and Block IIIB all up rounds (AURs) AN/DKT-71A telemetric data transmitting sets...
by Joe Katzman | Jan 4, 2006 | Contracts - Awards, Corporate Innovations, Electronics - General, IT - Software & Integration, Support & Maintenance, T&C - IBM, USA
IBM Corp. won an indefinite-delivery/ indefinite-quantity contract with a 5 base year + 5 option years cycle, and a ceiling price of $370 million. IBM will provide IT support services for the Defense Commissary Agency’s Commercial Advanced Resale Transaction...
