by Joe Katzman | Mar 31, 2008 | Boeing, Design Innovations, Events, Forces - Marines, Guns - under 20mm direct, Helicopters & Rotary, Issues - Political, Lobbying, New Systems Tech, Official Reports, Other Corporation, Policy - Procurement, Remote Weapons Systems, Scandals & Investigations, Testing & Evaluation, Think Tanks, Transformation, USA
MV-22 Osprey(click to view full) Every once in a while, a defense-related controversy becomes large enough to hit mainstream news outlets. Making the cover of TIME Magazine is often a good sign for world leaders, but it’s almost always a very bad sign for...
by Joe Katzman | Mar 30, 2008 | Contracts - Awards, Medical, Other Corporation, USA, Warfare - Trends
Head X-Ray(click to view full) Brain injuries have become a focus of study and controversy received during the current war. This is partly the result of improved detection and understanding of maladies whose symptoms are sometimes subtle, and can be mistaken for...
by Joe Katzman | Mar 30, 2008 | Contracts - Awards, Financial & Accounting, IT - General, Project Management, Support Functions - Other, T&C - Booz Allen, USA
The US Department of Defense has been facing serious accounting and finance-related issues for years. Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc. is one of many consulting companies trying to help them change that, and in May 2006 they received a new blanket purchase agreement (BPA)...
by Joe Katzman | Mar 27, 2008 | Britain/U.K., Budgets, Fighters & Attack, Issues - Political, Official Reports, Policy - Procurement, Project Management, Project Methodologies, Specialty Aircraft, Submarines, Surface Ships - Combat, Tanks & Mechanized, Transport & Utility
(click for full report) The UK’s Parliamentary Defence Committee has released its 2007-08 Session report that looks at the UK’s new merged Defence Equipment & Support organization (formerly DPA and DLO), and assesses Britain’s major procurement...
by Joe Katzman | Mar 27, 2008 | Contracts - Awards, L3 Communications, Launch Vehicles, Other Corporation, USA
Black Brant XII(click to view full) As NASA’s sounding rocket program site tells us: “Sounding rockets carry scientific instruments into space along parabolic trajectories, providing nearly vertical traversals along their upleg and downleg, while appearing...
