by Joe Katzman | Oct 19, 2006 | Contracts - Awards, Design Innovations, IT - Networks & Bandwidth, R&D - Contracted, Radars, Raytheon, USA
AN/APG-77 Test Back in December 2005, “Elec Tricks: Turning AESA Radars Into Broadband Comlinks” covered some preliminary breakthroughs by Raytheon and Northrop Grumman, and discussed the implications. Their work involved using cutting-edge AESA radars as...
by Joe Katzman | Oct 19, 2006 | Australia & S. Pacific, Avionics, Britain/U.K., Contracts - Awards, Europe - Other, Lockheed Martin, Procurement Innovations, R&D - Contracted, Support Functions - Other, Transport & Utility, USA
RAF C-130J & friends(click to view full) The privately-developed C-130J Super Hercules has been the focus of a great deal of scrutiny and even controversy, including a budgetary near-death experience and Congressional reinstatement over the Pentagon’s...
by Joe Katzman | Oct 19, 2006 | Contracts - Modifications, Electronics - General, Interoperability, Other Corporation, Sensors & Guidance, Support & Maintenance, UAVs, USA
Shadow 200 in Iraq(click to view full) AAI Corp. of Hunt Valley, MD has now detailed 3 contracts announced by U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command in Redstone Arsenal, AL on October 5, 2006. While the initial awards add up to $57.7 million, AAI states that their...
by Joe Katzman | Oct 19, 2006 | Contracts - Awards, Food-related, Other Corporation, Small Business, USA
Army of the PotomacCommissary Dept. HQ, 1864(click to view full) It’s often said that an army travels on its stomach. Well, they base that way, too. In addition to contracts for field rations like MREs, the US military has an extensive network of bases with a...