by Joe Katzman | Feb 6, 2006 | FOCUS Articles, Force Structure, Industry & Trends, Issues - Political, Official Reports, Policy - Doctrine, Policy - Procurement, Think Tanks, Top Stories, Transformation, USA
As of Friday, February 3, 2006, the USA’s 2006 Quadrennial Defense Review has been released. As Title 10, Section 118 stipulates, the QDR’s Congressional mandate is: The Secretary of Defense shall every four years… conduct a comprehensive examination...
by Joe Katzman | Feb 6, 2006 | Budgets, Force Structure, Issues - Political, Transformation, USA
eDefense Online covers a number of highlights from the USA’s FY 2006 defense appropriations law H.R. 2863.ENR, now Public Law #109-148. eDefense Online writes: “In the end, the US House of Representative and US Senate agreed to authorize $491.5 billion in...
by Joe Katzman | Feb 6, 2006 | Boeing, Corporate Financials, General Dynamics, Lockheed Martin, Northrop-Grumman, Raytheon
Over the past couple of weeks, the major American defense manufacturers have announced their Q4 2005 and FY 2005 financial results. Below, DID has noted some quick year-end figures for each. These figures are for total operations, including defense and civilian...
by Joe Katzman | Feb 6, 2006 | Boeing, C4ISR, Industry & Trends, Interoperability, New Systems Tech, Northrop-Grumman, Other Corporation, Raytheon, Signals Intercept, Cryptography, etc., Specialty Aircraft, UAVs
737 SIGINT Concept(click to view full) DID has covered the Aerial Common Sensor spy-plane program to replace the USAF’s RC-12 Guardrails and RC-7 Crazy Hawks, and the Navy’s EP-3 Aries II. From explaining the program and its forced change of aircraft, to...
by Joe Katzman | Feb 6, 2006 | DID site
This weekend, DID got a note from reader J.A., who informed us that the site’s auto-refresh every 6 minutes or so was driving him batty. He hated it. We hadn’t really thought about that; it’s something built into the site’s original software...
