by Editorial Staff | Oct 5, 2012 | Daily Rapid Fire, Helicopters & Rotary, India, Lobbying, Logistics, Navistar, People, RFPs, Russia, Scandals & Investigations, USA
* The Pentagon has paid $188M in container detention fees that went back to 2006 in just the past few months, according to USA Today. Minimizing these fees is much more complicated than the article makes it out to be. Of course rent-to-own costs more than outright...
by Joe Katzman | Oct 4, 2012 | ABM, Contracts - Awards, Contracts - Modifications, Small Business, Support Functions - Other, Testing & Evaluation, USA
MRBM target launch(click to view full) The Pacific Missile Range Facility (PMRF) is the world’s largest instrumented testing and training missile range, located on the far Hawaiian islands of Kaua’i and Ni’hau. The Barking Sands shore facility used...
by Editorial Staff | Oct 4, 2012 | Airbus, Alliances, Asia - Other, BAE, Budgets, China, Daily Rapid Fire, France, Legal, Middle East - Other, People, Think Tanks
* SASC Ranking Member Senator McCain [R-AZ] wrote to SecDef Panetta that by his calculations (which he did not provide), it could cost DoD $4B to comply with Labor/OMB guidance relative to WARN Act liabilities. On the White House’s position that contractors...
by Joe Katzman | Oct 3, 2012 | BAE, C4ISR, Contracts - Awards, IT - General, IT - Networks & Bandwidth, IT - Software & Integration, Lockheed Martin, Other Corporation, Small Business, T&C - SAIC, USA
GIG concept In June 2012, Lockheed Martin’s Information Systems & Global Solutions Division in Manassas, VA won a competition, transferring the keystone GSM-O IT services contract away from SAIC, a 15-year incumbent. GSM-O pays for the worldwide support...
by Editorial Staff | Oct 3, 2012 | Airbus, BAE, Britain/U.K., Budgets, Daily Rapid Fire, France, Germany, Legal, Mergers & Acquisitions, USA
* The Pentagon continues to pretend it is not planning for sequestration. Showing their newfound social media savvy, the Department even created a Facebook community for that. * Congressional Republicans are apoplectic to have been outmaneuvered – at last for...
