by Joe Katzman | Feb 12, 2013 | Africa - Other, BAE, India, Other Corporation, Partnerships & Consortia, Trucks & Transport
Casspir Mk6/ MPV-I(click to view full) The global trend toward mine-resistant patrol vehicles actually added India back in the late 1990s, when it began to buy used South African Casspir vehicles. India ended up buying 165 Casspirs from 1999-2001, and they have seen...
by Editorial Staff | Feb 12, 2013 | Asia - Central, Daily Rapid Fire, Europe - Other, Finmeccanica, Helicopters & Rotary, India, Issues - Political, IT - Software & Integration, Leadership & People, Scandals & Investigations, T&C - Microsoft, USA
* The US Senate Armed Services Committee will likely vote this afternoon on Chuck Hagel’s nomination as Secretary of Defense. Republican senators denied as an unfounded rumor that they were considering walking out of the committee. * Senate Democrats will...
by Joe Katzman | Feb 11, 2013 | Contracts - Awards, Forces - Special Ops, IT - Networks & Bandwidth, Small Business, Support & Maintenance, Testing & Evaluation, USA
Special forces are even more reliant on excellent communications infrastructure, and on help desk support that can go the extra miles with them. On October 2005, IT consulting firm iGov Technologies, Inc. in McLean, VA received an indefinite delivery/ indefinite...
by Editorial Staff | Feb 11, 2013 | BAE, Budgets, China, Contracts - Awards, Daily Rapid Fire, DARPA, India, Issues - International, Japan, Leadership & People, Official Reports, Radars, USA
* The US GAO found that a new requirement to justify $20M+ sole-source contracts awarded under the 8(a) small business program had been poorly implemented by the services during FY2012. In any case the number and value of such contracts dramatically fell since about...
by Editorial Staff | Feb 8, 2013 | Britain/U.K., Budgets, Canada, Daily Rapid Fire, GPS Infrastructure, India, Israel, IT - Software & Integration, Leadership & People, Logistics, Pre-RFP, Satellites & Sensors, USA
* US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta said the FY14 President Budget will not be submitted until the end of next month. It will include a 1% military pay raise (i.e. most likely lower than inflation) but is not going to be fully based on the baseline established by...
