by Joe Katzman | Feb 22, 2012 | Alliances, Asia - Central, Britain/U.K., Daily Rapid Fire, Fighters & Attack, Finmeccanica, Helicopters & Rotary, Japan, Specialty Aircraft
* Contract Pricing Reference Guides (CPRG) have been made available to the American defense acquisition workforce in PDF and MS Word format. They cover price and cost analysis, quantitative techniques for contract pricing, federal contract negotiation techniques, and...
by Editorial Staff | Feb 21, 2012 | Australia & S. Pacific, Britain/U.K., Budgets, Daily Rapid Fire, France, People, Politics, Russia
* Spending on private consultants within the UK’s Framework Agreement for Technical Support (FATS) is again making headlines: The Telegraph; The Guardian. Soon after being appointed, Defence Secretary Philip Hammond said last year that he was working on it. *...
by Editorial Staff | Feb 20, 2012 | Alliances, Americas - Other, Britain/U.K., Budgets, China, Daily Rapid Fire, France, Guns - Personal Weapons, Helicopters & Rotary, Middle East - Other, Think Tanks, USA
* France and Great Britain had a summit last Friday where they announced they are tightening their defense and nuclear energy cooperation. The two countries plan to establish a Joint Force headquarters and confirmed their joint UAV plans. * According to The Telegraph...
by Editorial Staff | Feb 17, 2012 | Daily Rapid Fire, Europe - Other, Japan, Legal, Middle East - Other, Think Tanks, USA
* German Defense Minister Thomas de Maiziere said the first rule of peace talks with the Taliban is, you don’t talk about peace talks. Well, he didn’t actually paraphrase Fight Club, but that’s the substance of his position expressed during a joint...
by Joe Katzman | Feb 16, 2012 | Boeing, Contracts - Awards, Contracts - Intent, DARPA, Design Innovations, Fighters & Attack, Industry & Trends, Missiles - Air-Air, Missiles - Precision Attack, New Systems Tech, Other Corporation, R&D - Contracted, Raytheon, USA
Latest updates: Next-Gen Missile Termination. AARGM Concept(click to view larger) In early FY 2011, DARPA awarded a pair of initial contracts for something called the Triple Target Terminator. In their own words: “The Triple Target Terminator (T3) program will...
