by Joe Katzman | Jan 29, 2007 | Airbus, Boeing, Issues - Political, Northrop-Grumman, Policy - Procurement, Power Projection, Pre-RFP, Project Methodologies, Specialty Aircraft, USA
KC-767 refuels KC-777(click to view full) DID has covered developments in the USA’s coming aerial tanker program, which could reach 500 planes and/or $100+ billion before all is said and done, and is now listed as the USAF’s #1 procurement priority. The...
by Joe Katzman | Jan 29, 2007 | Contracts - Awards, Design Innovations, New Systems Tech, Project Successes, Sensors & Guidance, Small Business, Transformation, USA
Boomerang System(click for lg. cutaway) Small business qualifier BBN Technologies in Cambridge, MA received a $9.5 million firm-fixed-price contract for “acoustic shot detection and decoy systems.” DID has covered BBN’s Boomerang anti-sniper system...
by Joe Katzman | Jan 29, 2007 | Alliances, Contracts - Intent, Fighters & Attack, Issues - International, Issues - Political, Lobbying, New Systems Tech, Turkey, USA
One more…(click to view full) A recent DID article covering the Eurofighter consortium’s offer to Turkey had noted that a key Defense Industry Executive Committee meeting on January 12, 2007 would determine that country’s continued involvement in the...
by Joe Katzman | Jan 29, 2007 | ABM, Contracts - Awards, R&D - Contracted, Support Functions - Other, USA
Sparta, Inc. of Lake Forest, CA, who was recently cited here as a key participant in the Project Hercules missile defense effort, recently received a $154.7 million cost-plus-fixed-fee (level of effort) contract “for scientific, engineering and technical...
