by Joe Katzman | Jul 30, 2007 | Britain/U.K., Contracts - Awards, Engines & Propulsion - Naval, Procurement Innovations, Rolls Royce, Submarines, Support & Maintenance
SSBN Vanguard Class(click to view full) The UK Ministry of Defence has signed a partnering contract with Rolls-Royce worth up to GBP 1 billion over 10 years to provide through-life support of the pressurized water nuclear reactors on board the Royal Navy’s...
by Joe Katzman | Jul 30, 2007 | Contracts - Awards, DARPA, Design Innovations, FOCUS Articles, General Dynamics, New Systems Tech, Northrop-Grumman, Other Corporation, R&D - Contracted, Submarines, Testing & Evaluation, University-related, USA
It’s not the size of thesub that counts…OK, it is No, not Tango Uniform – Tango Bravo, as in “technology barriers.” The Navy and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) plan to pour $97 million between 2004-2009 into a new...
by Joe Katzman | Jul 30, 2007 | Electronics - General, Field Innovations, Industry & Trends, Interoperability, Middle East - Other, Security & Secrecy, Transformation, USA, Warfare - Lessons
“It had to be you…”(click to view full) America’s recently-passed 2007 supplemental defense funding bill (#2) included $320 million for an unusual weapon: biometrics. Fingerprinting, iris scanning, certain approaches to automated facial...
by Joe Katzman | Jul 30, 2007 | Contracts - Awards, R&D - Contracted, Support Functions - Other, University-related, USA
San Diego State University Foundation in San Diego, CA received a $9.1 million indefinite-delivery/ indefinite-quantity contract with a time and materials pricing arrangement to procure analytical and technical support services from undergraduate and graduate level...
