by Joe Katzman | May 24, 2009 | DID site, Memoriam
Honor & Reflect(click to view full) Monday, May 25th is Memorial Day in the USA. DID honors those who have given all of their tomorrows in American military service; we will not be publishing. Readers are urged to peruse the US Department of Defense’s...
by Joe Katzman | May 22, 2009 | Alliances, Australia & S. Pacific, Boeing, Contracts - Awards, Design Innovations, Engines - Aircraft, FOCUS Articles, Materials Innovations, New Systems Tech, Other Corporation, Partnerships & Consortia, R&D - Contracted, Specialty Aircraft, United Technologies, University-related, USA
Scramjets explained(click to view full) Australia’s Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO) and the United States Air Force have signed an agreement to advance research into hypersonic (Mach 5 or higher) flight. The 8-year program has been established...
by Joe Katzman | May 21, 2009 | Budgets, Issues - Political, Lockheed Martin, Missiles - Precision Attack, New Systems Tech, Raytheon, Testing & Evaluation, USA
AGM-158 JASSM(click to view full) Lockheed Martin’s AGM-158 Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile (JASSM) was intended as a stealthy, inexpensive cruise missile that would let American aircraft attack well-defended targets – without putting themselves in...
by Fred Donovan | May 21, 2009 | Contracts - Awards, Middle East - Other, Other Corporation, Other Equipment - Land, USA
CPKs on TRAMS American Defense Systems Inc. (ADSI) in Hicksville, NY received a $9.9 million firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/ indefinite-quantity contract with a maximum ordering quantity of 25 Add on Armor (AoA) Crew Protection Kits (CPKs), associated manuals...
by Fred Donovan | May 21, 2009 | Boeing, Delivery & Task Orders, Forces - Special Ops, Helicopters & Rotary, Other Corporation, Specialty Aircraft, USA
CV-22 SEAL extraction(click to view full) Bell-Boeing Joint Project Office in Amarillo, TX received a $7.3 million firm-fixed-price delivery order for one-time engineering services to retrofit 7 CV-22 aircraft per single configuration retrofit ECP V-22-0802. The order...
