by Joe Katzman | Oct 10, 2011 | Britain/U.K., Contracts - Awards, Design Innovations, Materials Innovations, Other Corporation, R&D - Contracted, Tanks & Mechanized, Trucks & Transport
Tarian close-up(click to view full) Working with Britain’s Ministry of Defense, a transatlantic firm named AmSafe has come up with a novel solution to anti-tank rockets: fabric panels mounted on the sides of trucks and armored vehicles. Now, that concept has...
by Editorial Staff | Oct 10, 2011 | Daily Rapid Fire, Design Innovations, Financial & Accounting, Fuel & Power, Helicopters & Rotary, IT - Cyber-Security, Legal, Logistics, Medical, Surface Ships - Other, UAVs
* Finmeccanica’s AgustaWestland, following in BAE’s footsteps, will cut up to 375 jobs in the UK. The company’s plant in Yeovil manufactures AW159 Lynx Wildcats for the MoD. However, while AgustaWestland’s license to manufacture Chinooks as...
by Joe Katzman | Oct 9, 2011 | Contracts - Awards, L3 Communications, Training & Exercises, USA
Each of the US military services runs Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape (SERE) courses for its people, at 3 escalating levels of severity. They aim to teach soldiers the code of conduct they’re obliged to follow if captured; how to survive in the wild for...
by Editorial Staff | Oct 7, 2011 | Budgets, Daily Rapid Fire, Financial & Accounting, Food-related, Forces - Naval, Official Reports, Rumours, USA
* Early retirement? Defense News says USS George Washington (CVN 73) might be decommissioned in 2016, instead of going through refueling and overhaul. This is based on 2 unnamed Pentagon sources and was not officially confirmed or denied. * Early homeporting?...
by Joe Katzman | Oct 6, 2011 | C4ISR, Contracts - Awards, General Dynamics, IT - Software & Integration, R&D - Contracted, USA
CPOF(click to view larger) General Dynamics C4 Systems in Scottsdale, AZ received a $78 million cost-plus-award-fee indefinite-delivery/ indefinite-quantity contract, to develop the next iteration of their Command Post of the Future computing system. It’s...
