by Joe Katzman | Feb 27, 2008 | Airbus, Contracts - Awards, Electronics - General, France, Helicopters & Rotary, Industry & Trends, R&D - Contracted, Singapore, Support & Maintenance, Transformation
RSAF AS332 on LSD-49(click to view full) Maintenance trends are one of the most underrated issues in the defense field. Britain is leading the way with “contracting for availability” approaches that pay fixed annual costs over a system’s lifetime,...
by Joe Katzman | Feb 27, 2008 | Delivery & Task Orders, Japan, Northrop-Grumman, Specialty Aircraft, Support & Maintenance, Support Functions - Other, USA
Japanese E-2C (click to view full) On Feb 25/08, Northrop Grumman Systems Corp in Bethpage, NY received two contracts via the US Naval Air Systems Command in Patuxent River, MD related to Japan’s E-2C Hawkeye Airborne Early Warning and Control (AWACS) aircraft....
by Joe Katzman | Feb 27, 2008 | Airbus, France, Helicopters & Rotary, Other Corporation, Policy - Procurement, Procurement Innovations, Public Partnering
Old: Gazelle(click to view full) On Jan 31/08, French Defence Minister Herve Morin authorized the first public-private partnership contract by the French DGA procurement agency. This kind of arrangement is becoming more common, especially in Britain, but France has...
