by Joe Katzman | Sep 20, 2012 | Contracts - Awards, Forces - Marines, Guns - Personal Weapons, Other Corporation, USA
Beretta 92/M9, firing(click to view full) In September 2012, Beretta USA Corp. in Accokeek, MD received a 5-year, $64 million firm-fixed-price contract for up to 100,000 of their M9 9mm Pistols. All of the pistols will be manufactured at the Beretta USA facility in...
by Joe Katzman | Sep 20, 2012 | Contracts - Awards, Intelligence & PsyOps, IT - Software & Integration, Northrop-Grumman, USA, Warfare - Trends
(click to view full) In September 2012, Northrop Grumman Information Technology Inc. in McLean, VA received an $8.2 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to support the Biometric Identity Intelligence Resource System. Biometrics has found an important but unheralded...
by Editorial Staff | Sep 20, 2012 | Airbus, BAE, Britain/U.K., Budgets, Daily Rapid Fire, Europe - Other, European Union (EU), France, Germany, Lobbying, Mergers & Acquisitions, R&D - Contracted, Russia, Submarines, USA
* Swedish general Hakan Syren, the Chairman of the European Union Military Committee, tells it like it is: “The military capabilities of the EU member states are on a steady downward slope. […] Looking a few years into the future, it is simple mathematics...