by Joe Katzman | Sep 26, 2012 | Contracts - Awards, Other Corporation, Soldier's Gear, USA
Try one on!(click to view full) Sept. 25/12: Ops Core Inc. in Boston, MA, was awarded a $45.5M firm-fixed-price contract for Modular Integrated Communication Helmets (MICH). The U.S. Army Contracting Command, Natick, MA, is the contracting activity (W911QY-12-D-0033)....
by Editorial Staff | Sep 26, 2012 | China, Daily Rapid Fire, People, United Technologies, USA
* Sikorsky announced on Monday that they would close their Military Completions Center in Big Flats, NY, by the end of the year. That facility was developed in 2007, following the acquisition of Schweizer Aircraft in 2004, to prep Black Hawk and Naval Hawk helicopters...
by Joe Katzman | Sep 25, 2012 | Boeing, Contracts - Awards, Contracts - Modifications, Helicopters & Rotary, Middle East - Other, USA
Before: AH-64A(click to view full) With the collapse of the RAH-66 Comanche program, and rededication of its funding into the ARH-70 Armed Reconnaissance Helicopter (ARH), the UH-145 Light Utility Helicopter (LUH), and other programs, the AH-64 Apache will remain the...
by Editorial Staff | Sep 25, 2012 | Airbus, BAE, Boeing, Britain/U.K., Canada, China, Daily Rapid Fire, France, Germany, Mergers & Acquisitions, Official Reports, People, USA
This way to the top Chinese authorities officially confirmed [government source, in Chinese] today that they commissioned the Liaoning (formerly the USSR’s unfinished Riga then Varyag), their first aircraft carrier. * If there are American opponents to a...
by Joe Katzman | Sep 24, 2012 | Contracts - Awards, Contracts - Intent, Contracts - Modifications, Oceans - International, Other Corporation, Science - Basic Research, Surface Ships - Other, University-related, USA
RV Kilo Moana(click to view full) The USA’s University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System conducts research throughout the world’s oceans, and their fleet has shifted to 4 basic research vessel types: Global, Ocean/Intermediate, Regional and...
