by Joe Katzman | Jun 8, 2009 | After-Action Reviews, Boeing, Budgets, C4ISR, Contracts - Awards, Contracts - Modifications, Design Innovations, FOCUS Articles, General Dynamics, Interoperability, Issues - Political, IT - Networks & Bandwidth, IT - Software & Integration, L3 Communications, Leadership & People, Lobbying, Lockheed Martin, Military Overall, New Systems Tech, Northrop-Grumman, Official Reports, Other Corporation, Partnerships & Consortia, Policy - Doctrine, Policy - Procurement, Procurement Innovations, Project Methodologies, R&D - Contracted, Raytheon, Satellites & Sensors, Security & Secrecy, Signals Intercept, Cryptography, etc., Signals Radio & Wireless, Space Warfare, T&C - CSC, T&C - SAIC, Testing & Evaluation, Transformation, USA, Warfare - Lessons, Warfare - Trends
Raytheon: C4ISR Future?(click to expand) As video communications is integrated into robots, soldiers, and UAVs, and network-centric warfare becomes the organizing principle of American warfighting, front-line demands for bandwidth are rising faster than the US...
by Joe Katzman | Jun 8, 2009 | BAE, Mergers & Acquisitions, Small Business, UAVs, USA
Silver Fox in Iraq(click to view full) BAE Systems recently completed its $14.7 million acquisition of Advanced Ceramics Research, a Tucson, AZ-based maker of small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and ceramic materials for military and commercial application. The...
by Joe Katzman | Jun 8, 2009 | Canada, Helicopters & Rotary, Official Reports, Specialty Aircraft, Support & Maintenance
EH101/ CH-149: on ice(click to view full) Figures laid before the Canadian Senate’s Security and Defence Committee are calling the readiness of Canada’s maritime airframes into serious question. This is not a surprise when fleets are composed of aircraft...
by Joe Katzman | Jun 8, 2009 | Bases & Infrastructure, Contracts - Awards, General Dynamics, IT - General, IT - Software & Integration, USA
General Dynamics Information Technology received a 5-year, $20 million contract (GS-35F-4357D) to provide IT services and program management support to the U.S. Army’s Program Executive Office-Enterprise Information Systems (PEO-EIS), Installation Management...