by Editorial Staff | Jul 12, 2012 | Budgets, Daily Rapid Fire, DARPA, Germany, IT - Networks & Bandwidth, IT - Software & Integration, Leadership & People, Lockheed Martin, Middle East - Other, Official Reports, Think Tanks, USA
Reports will be this thin The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its latest report [PDF] on long-term defense budgets (known as FYDP for short). Whether CBO wonks use their own projections or extend the FYDP beyond its 5-year span, they find that the Pentagon...
by Joe Katzman | Jul 11, 2012 | BAE, Contracts - Awards, Intelligence & PsyOps, L3 Communications, Lockheed Martin, Other Corporation, Support Functions - Other, T&C - Booz Allen, T&C - SAIC, USA
In July 2012, the “Virginia Contracting Activity” accepted 10 firms into the $5.6 billion “Solutions for Intelligence Analysis II” program. It succeeds the original December 2007 SITA contract, which consolidated over 30 different contracts...
by Editorial Staff | Jul 11, 2012 | Alliances, Asia - Central, Daily Rapid Fire, France, Logistics, Middle East - Other, Russia
* The US Navy’s Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) finalized its Next Generation Jammer (NGJ) RFP to handle the Technology Development (TD) phase of the program, following Technology Maturation efforts that involved ITT, BAE, Northrop Grumman and Raytheon. NGJ...
by Joe Katzman | Jul 10, 2012 | Airbus, BAE, Bombs - Smart, Britain/U.K., Contracts - Intent, Europe - Other, Fighters & Attack, Germany, Industry & Trends, MBDA, Missiles - Air-Air, R&D - Contracted
Future Typhoonweapons array?(click to view full) At the opening of the Farnborough 2012 defense exhibition, British Prime Minister David Cameron discussed the Eurofighter’s future: “Typhoon’s growth potential is huge and the four partner nations,...
by Editorial Staff | Jul 10, 2012 | Asia - Central, Australia & S. Pacific, Budgets, China, Daily Rapid Fire, IT - Cyber-Security, Logistics, Mergers & Acquisitions, USA
* Afghan logistics are a high priority for NATO members in what remains a tense, entangled situation. Use of the Ulyanovsk airport in Russia should start next month, while Pakistan is expanding capacity at the Torkham border crossing. A lot of trucks still seem stuck...
