by Fred Donovan | Mar 25, 2010 | Contracts - Awards, Outer Space, Satellites & Sensors, Small Business, USA
The JMAPS bus will be designed, built, and tested by AeroAstro, and will use the spacecraft conceptual design that was developed during Phase II of a small business innovative research (SBIR) effort. This contract contains an option which, if exercised, would bring...
by Fred Donovan | Mar 24, 2010 | Britain/U.K., C4ISR, Contracts - Awards, Daily Rapid Fire, DARPA, IT - Cyber-Security, IT - General, IT - Software & Integration, Missiles - Ballistic, Northrop-Grumman, Other Corporation, Outer Space, Policy - Procurement, Radars, Scandals & Investigations, Simulation & Training, Specialty Aircraft, Support Functions - Other, UAVs, USA
* Water desalination on a chip could be a game-changer for post-disaster scenarios, expeditionary militaries. * Britain consolidating work of 6 government departments, 2 research councils, a technology committee and the Met Office into one new UK Space Agency. * US...
by Fred Donovan | Mar 24, 2010 | Coastal & Littoral, Contracts - Awards, Contracts - Modifications, Other Corporation, Radars, Surface Ships - Combat, USA
AN/SPS-48E radar onLPD-17 USS San Antonio The AN/SPS-48E radar was introduced into the US Navy’s fleet in the mid-1980s. It is a medium-range, 3-dimensional (height, range, and bearing) air search radar whose primary function is to provide target position data...
by Fred Donovan | Mar 24, 2010 | Africa - Other, Contracts - Awards, Delivery & Task Orders, Mines & Countermine-IED, Other Corporation, Support Functions - Other, Trucks & Transport, USA
Husky w. trailers(click to view full) $7.2 million USMC order for VMMD spare parts. (March 24/10) Detecting and defusing IEDs and mines has been a preoccupation of US troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. The South Africa-based RSD, a division of Dorbyl, has developed a...
by Fred Donovan | Mar 23, 2010 | ABM, Airbus, Alliances, Americas - Other, Asia - Central, Boeing, Britain/U.K., Budgets, Contracts - Awards, Daily Rapid Fire, General Atomics, General Dynamics, Grenades, Helicopters & Rotary, India, Lockheed Martin, Other Corporation, Simulation & Training, Support Functions - Other, Tanks & Mechanized, USA
* UK parliamentary panel says defense budget gap could reach GBP 36 billion, 6 times the MoD’s estimate. Defense programs could be slashed. Panel report | Reuters | Bloomberg | Telegraph | Daily Mail * World Trade Organization hands down ruling on Airbus...
