by Joe Katzman | Feb 15, 2011 | Contracts - Awards, Lockheed Martin, Simulation & Training, Support & Maintenance, Support Functions - Other, Transport & Utility, USA
C-130 ATS(click for cutaway) Lockheed Martin recently announced an 8-year, $270 million contract to continue offering its C-130 Aircrew Training Systems (ATS), which provide simulators, computer training, and instruction to C-130 pilots in the USA and around the...
by Fred Donovan | Feb 14, 2011 | Alliances, Americas - Other, Asia - Other, Britain/U.K., Budgets, Contracts - Awards, Daily Rapid Fire, Delivery & Task Orders, Events, Fighters & Attack, Food-related, Fuel & Power, General Dynamics, IAI, IT - General, IT - Networks & Bandwidth, Leadership & People, Legal, Materials Innovations, Middle East - Other, Official Reports, Other Corporation, Policy - Personnel, Russia, Soldier's Gear, Specialty Aircraft, Training & Exercises, USA
* Obama administration’s fiscal year 2012 budget [PDF] boosts defense spending by $22 billion over FY 2010 appropriations, to $671 billion, while projecting $78 billion in “savings” through 2016. [Update: 2013 request.] * Russia’s armed forces...
by Joe Katzman | Feb 14, 2011 | Delivery & Task Orders, Design Innovations, Electronics - General, New Systems Tech, Other Corporation, Project Successes, R&D - Contracted, Sensors & Guidance, USA
Boomerang System(click for cutaway) 300 “Boomerang III perimeter systems.” (Feb 14/11) Sniper attacks are an ongoing problem/ opportunity in any urban conflict, which is tailor made for the practice. The bad news is that most future conflicts and even...
by Fred Donovan | Feb 13, 2011 | Americas - Other, Bases & Infrastructure, Budgets, Contracts - Awards, Daily Rapid Fire, DARPA, ECM, Engines - Aircraft, Europe - Other, Fighters & Attack, Finmeccanica, Honeywell, India, Industry & Trends, Issues - International, Other Corporation, RFPs, Rolls Royce, Russia, Specialty Aircraft, Submarines, Support & Maintenance, Surface Ships - Combat, Surface Ships - Other, UAVs, USA
* Russia plans to build up defenses and deploy armaments on Kuril Islands on its Pacific coast, islands that have been disputed with Japan since WWII. As noted last week, Mistral type LHDs will also be part of that move. * US Navy explains exactly which repairs and...
by Fred Donovan | Feb 10, 2011 | Airbus, Bases & Infrastructure, Blimps & LTA Craft, Boeing, Britain/U.K., Budgets, C4ISR, China, Contracts - Awards, Daily Rapid Fire, Electronics - General, Engines - Aircraft, Equipment - Other, Europe - Other, Fighters & Attack, General Dynamics, India, Northrop-Grumman, Other Corporation, Policy - Doctrine, Raytheon, RFPs, Russia, Specialty Aircraft, Support & Maintenance, Thales, USA
* Ignoring pleas from the DoD and defense companies, the House plans to fund the government through the rest of the fiscal year with a continuing resolution, which will include $74 billion in spending cuts. * Joint Chiefs of Staff releases first update to its National...
