by Joe Katzman | Oct 31, 2006 | Airbus, Europe - Other, France, Issues - International, Legal, USA
You want scary this Halloween? Well, you could be managing EADS. DID has discussed Airbus’ difficulties before, mostly in the context of BAE’s divestiture and likely investments in the defense field. A related corporate issue also feeds back into the...
by Joe Katzman | Oct 31, 2006 | Contracts - Awards, IT - General, Middle East - Other, Small Business, USA
Small business qualifier Tribalco L.L.C. in Bethesda, MD received a $9.7 million sole-source, firm-fixed-price contract for information technology support services at Camp Victory, Baghdad, Iraq. Work is expected to be complete by Oct. 25, 2007. The Joint Contracting...
by Joe Katzman | Oct 27, 2006 | FOCUS Articles, Germany, Industry & Trends, Issues - Political, Official Reports, Other Corporation, Think Tanks
The German Bundeswehr is no longer the formidable force that some remember from the Cold War. The force has been downsized, significant quantities of its heavy equipment have been sold off, and Germany’s level of defense spending has fallen sharply over the past...
by Joe Katzman | Oct 27, 2006 | Contracts - Modifications, DARPA, Launch Vehicles, Lockheed Martin, Materials Innovations, New Systems Tech, Other Corporation, USA
Falcon HTV Concept(click to view full) In a January 2006 update to our original article covering the FALCON HTV hypersonic space plane, DID noted that the a Mach 15+ flight of HTV-1 was supposed to take place in September 2007. Now a Flight International article notes...
by Joe Katzman | Oct 27, 2006 | Contracts - Awards, Engineer Units, Fuel & Power, Other Corporation, Other Equipment - Land, USA
DRS DPGDS DRS Technologies, Inc. recently announced almost $10 million in new orders to produce Deployable Power Generation and Distribution Systems (DPGDS) for the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Army. DRS will provide power units, secondary equipment and spare parts to...
