by Editorial Staff | Oct 31, 2011 | Australia & S. Pacific, BAE, Britain/U.K., Corporate Innovations, Daily Rapid Fire, Delivery & Task Orders, Forces - Special Ops, Industry & Trends, Lockheed Martin, Pre-RFP, R&D - Contracted, Raytheon, Robots, Space Warfare, Submarines
* Lockheed Martin and Raytheon plan to compete with incumbent BAE for the US Army’s Design, Development, Demonstration & Integration (D3I) space and missile defense program. The D3I RFP should be released soon, meanwhile the Concepts and Operations for...
by Joe Katzman | Oct 30, 2011 | Contracts - Awards, Design Innovations, General Dynamics, R&D - Contracted, Submarines, Support Functions - Other, USA
Virginia Class(click to view full) Oct 26/11: Electric Boat Corp. in Groton, CT, received a $91.2 million cost-plus-fixed-fee modification to previously awarded contract for lead yard services efforts related to the US Navy’s nuclear-powered Virginia Class fast...
by Joe Katzman | Oct 30, 2011 | Contracts - Modifications, Fighters & Attack, Helicopters & Rotary, L3 Communications, Specialty Aircraft, Support & Maintenance, USA
USN F-16A(click to view full) In October 2011, L-3 Communications Vertex Aerospace, LLC in Madison, MS received a $26.3 million firm-fixed-price contract modification, exercising an option for organizational, selected intermediate, and limited depot level maintenance...
by Editorial Staff | Oct 28, 2011 | Africa - Other, Britain/U.K., Budgets, Daily Rapid Fire, DARPA, France, Logistics Innovations, Mergers & Acquisitions, Missiles - Ballistic, People, Scandals & Investigations, UAVs, USA
* The Institute for the Study of War offers a good snapshot of the Libyan revolution and operations by the numbers. This week Libya was also on the mind of the UK’s House of Commons Defence Committee in a Q&A session with the Minister for the Armed Forces,...
by Joe Katzman | Oct 27, 2011 | Consulting Firms, Contracts - Awards, DARPA, Design Innovations, Materials Innovations, New Systems Tech, R&D - Contracted, Robots, Support Functions - Other, T&C - Booz Allen, USA
The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Tactical Technology Office has 3 major focus areas. Advanced Platforms does a lot of work in robotics, from load carriers that walk like a dog (LS3) to UAVs designed to stay up for months (Vulture). They also do...
