by Editorial Staff | Feb 29, 2012 | Budgets, Contracts - Awards, Fighters & Attack, Legal, Lockheed Martin, USA
* The US Air Force is setting aside its Afghanistan Light Air Support contract to Sierra Nevada before the litigation initiated by Hawker Beechcraft even completes its course: “Since the acquisition is still in litigation, I can only say that the Air Force...
by Editorial Staff | Feb 28, 2012 | Asia - Central, Budgets, Daily Rapid Fire, IT - Cyber-Security, Legal, Mergers & Acquisitions
* No less than four congressional hearings are scheduled today to review the FY13 Pentagon budget. See our full schedule. Opposition to base closures continues with this letter [PDF] written by Vicky Hartzler (R-MO) and co-signed by 41 other members of Congress....
by Editorial Staff | Feb 27, 2012 | Alliances, Budgets, Daily Rapid Fire, France, Fuel & Power, Guns - under 20mm direct, India, Israel, Middle East - Other, Procurement Innovations
* Israel Aerospace Industries inks a $1.6B deal with Azerbaijan involving UAVs and missile defense systems. * The French DGA procurement agency released its 2011 activity report [PDF, in French]. Urgent operational purchase requests vastly decreased to just 20 million...
by Editorial Staff | Feb 24, 2012 | Africa - Other, Britain/U.K., Budgets, Canada, Daily Rapid Fire, Issues - International, Logistics Innovations, Soldier's Gear
* Coast Guard Commandant Admiral Bob Pap made his annual State of the Coast Guard address [PDF]. On acquisition: “[T]here was a time when the Coast Guard operated 8 polar ice breakers. How did that happen? In 1941, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt passed a...
by Editorial Staff | Feb 23, 2012 | Daily Rapid Fire, Fighters & Attack, Legal, Middle East - Other, Official Reports, People, Scandals & Investigations, T&C - SAIC, Think Tanks, USA
* Turkey plans to proceed with its F-35 plans according to Reuters, while the US Defense Acquisitions Board (DAB) recently met to recertify the program because of its 2010 Nunn-McCurdy rule breach. See also the Feb. 16 update of the F-35 CRS backgrounder [PDF]....
