by Editorial Staff | Oct 25, 2011 | Africa - Other, Americas - Other, Budgets, Daily Rapid Fire, Europe - Other, Fighters & Attack, Helicopters & Rotary, Issues - Political, Lobbying, RFPs, Scandals & Investigations, Soldier's Gear, Support & Maintenance, USA
* The Aerospace Industries Association (AIA) commissioned a study [PDF] to measure the likely impact on US employment, were automatic cuts to be triggered by a lack of consensus from the Super Committee. The conveniently scary result is a loss of 1 million jobs, incl....
by Joe Katzman | Oct 25, 2011 | Asia - Central, Contracts - Awards, Engineer Units, Intelligence & PsyOps, Security Contractor, Support Functions - Other, USA
In October 2011, Global Integrated Security (USA), Inc. in Reston, VA won a 4-year, $480 million firm-fixed-price contract from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, for Reconstruction Security Support Services throughout Afghanistan. Work will be performed in...
by Editorial Staff | Oct 25, 2011 | Africa - Other, Budgets, Daily Rapid Fire, Helicopters & Rotary, Israel, IT - Cyber-Security, IT - General, Japan, Northrop-Grumman, Nuclear Weapons
* Lockheed Martin Information Systems & Global Solutions (IS&GS) announced a voluntary layoff program to reduce its headcount by 250 in February 2012, out of a 30,000 total worldwide. * Northrop Grumman to supply AQS-24A airborne mine-hunting system to Japan...