by Joe Katzman | May 16, 2010 | Contracts - Awards, Guns - Personal Weapons, New Systems Tech, Other Corporation, R&D - Contracted, R&D - Private, USA
M203 on M4 Carbine(click to view full) Airtronic USA, Inc. in Elk Grove Village, IL recently announced a 5-year, indefinite-delivery/ indefinite-quantity contract from US Army TACOM Rock Island Arsenal, IL. The firm will produce up to 50,000 M203 and M203A2 40mm...
by Fred Donovan | May 13, 2010 | Britain/U.K., Budgets, Daily Rapid Fire, IT - Cyber-Security, Missiles - Surface-Air, Other Corporation, Policy - Personnel, Russia, USA
* UK aerospace and defense stocks drive up London FTSE 100 index. * Former Russian air force chief says Russia is 25 to 30 years behind the US in develop air defenses. * Columnist Daniel Darling of The Faster Times considers European defense spending in the aftermath...
by Joe Katzman | May 13, 2010 | France, Other Corporation, Trucks & Transport
Panhard PVP(click to view larger) France has contracted with Panhard General Defense for 187 Petits Vehicules Proteges (PVP) light protected vehicles. This is the final tranche of a total order for 933 PVPs, awarded in September 2004. Initial deliveries began in April...
by Joe Katzman | May 13, 2010 | India, Issues - Political, Policy - Procurement
In “India’s Defense Market: Obstacles to Modernization” DID looked at the various organizational pathologies that were creating repeated failures for Indian defense procurement efforts, to the point that billions of dollars were being appropriated...
by Fred Donovan | May 12, 2010 | Americas - Other, Asia - Central, Britain/U.K., China, Contracts - Awards, Daily Rapid Fire, Electronics - General, Europe - Other, Forces - Special Ops, France, General Dynamics, Israel, Issues - Environmental, IT - General, Lockheed Martin, Logistics, Mergers & Acquisitions, Missiles - Precision Attack, MPs & Justice, New Systems Tech, Northrop-Grumman, Other Corporation, People, Robots, Singapore, Tanks & Mechanized, UAVs, USA
* Singapore to buy RFID-based armory management system as part of S$ 1.1 billion IT spending package. * PricewaterhouseCoopers: The global aerospace and defense sector experiences strongest M&A deal quarter in 5 quarters. * South Korea’s KIDA: “How to...
