by Joe Katzman | Jan 26, 2007 | Contracts - Awards, Engines - Aircraft, India, Issues - International, Other Corporation, Partnerships & Consortia, Russia, Transport & Utility
As DID noted in our coverage of the FC-1/JF-17 program yesterday, Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Sergei Ivanov, during which a number of joint defense projects were discussed and agreements were signed. Items in the works reportedly include...
by Joe Katzman | Jan 26, 2007 | Boeing, Contracts - Awards, Domestic Security, Field Innovations, Field Reports, IT - Software & Integration, New Systems Tech, Soldier's Gear, Training & Exercises, Transformation, UAVs, USA
ShotSpotter, Redwood City(click to view full) In 1996, the ShotSpotter Gunshot Location System was combined with ESRI’s GIS and other software to dramatically improve the understanding police had when arriving at gunfire scenes in Redwood City, California...
by Joe Katzman | Jan 25, 2007 | ABM, Contracts - Awards, Contracts - Modifications, IT - Software & Integration, New Systems Tech, Other Corporation, R&D - Contracted, Raytheon, Sensors & Guidance, USA
(click to view full) One of the hard problems in missile defense is how to deal with decoys. By the time most ABMs are launched, a MIRV (Multiple, Independent Re-entry Vehicle) missile will have split into its component warheads. The thing is, modern ICBMS have space...
by Joe Katzman | Jan 25, 2007 | Pre-RFP, R&D - Private, Robots, Singapore
Maybe he could help…?(click for details) A proliferation of UGV (unmanned ground vehicle) robots and waldos heads for the world’s conflict zones. Back in America, DARPA’s Grand Challenge dared inventors to produce a true robotic vehicle that could...
by Joe Katzman | Jan 25, 2007 | Bases & Infrastructure, Contracts - Awards, Small Business, USA
Small business qualifier Cottrell Contracting Corp. in Chesapeake, VA won a $5.4 million firm-fixed-price contract for maintenance dredging of the Atlantic Intercoastal Waterway and Morehead City Harbor and Beaufort Harbor, NC. Work is expected to be complete by April...
