by Joe Katzman | Aug 7, 2011 | Blimps & LTA Craft, Contracts - Awards, Design Innovations, FOCUS Articles, Lockheed Martin, New Systems Tech, Northrop-Grumman, R&D - Contracted, Radars, Raytheon, USA
Lockheed HAA Concept(click to view full) DARPA’s ISIS program is developing a stratospheric airship with sensor antennas that will include a radar nearly as large as the airship. This would create a battlefield surveillance platform with extreme endurance, and...
by Joe Katzman | Aug 7, 2011 | Asia - Central, C4ISR, Contracts - Awards, Events, Other Corporation, Signals Intercept, Cryptography, etc., USA
SOTECH(click to view full) In August 2011, Special Operations Technology, Inc. in Annapolis Junction, MD receives a $79.5 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract modification “to install, operate, and maintain the lawful intercept equipment and support equipment at...
by Joe Katzman | Aug 7, 2011 | Contracts - Awards, Electronics - General, Eng. Control Systems, Other Corporation, Submarines, USA
Treadwell AEOG(click for details) Submarines travel underwater, but they all need oxygen. Diesel-electric submarines need it for their engines, and must surface to get it, though modern AIP (Air Independent Propulsion) systems allow moderate power cruising for weeks...
by Joe Katzman | Aug 7, 2011 | Coastal & Littoral, Contracts - Awards, Other Corporation, USA
USNA plebes say: “Thanks for nothing…”(click to view full) Zodiac of North America in Stevensville, MD receives a $10.9 million firm-fixed-price indefinite-delivery/ indefinite-quantity contract for 20 – 888 of their 7-person inflatable landing...
