by Editorial Staff | Feb 7, 2013 | Africa - Other, Boeing, Budgets, Daily Rapid Fire, France, Issues - Political, Leadership & People, Logistics, USA
* House Armed Services Committee (HASC) Chairman Buck McKeon (R-CA), SASC Ranking Member Jim Inhofe (R-OK), and other allied Republican members of Congress introduced the Down Payment to Protect National Security Act of 2013 [PDF] as their way of preventing...
by Editorial Staff | Feb 6, 2013 | Budgets, Daily Rapid Fire, France, Issues - Political, Leadership & People, Legal, Lockheed Martin, Polar Regions, Pre-RFP, Russia, Satellites & Sensors, South Korea, UAVs, USA
* US Army Chief of Staff Ray Odierno released a slidedeck [PDF] detailing the budget shortfall that will affect operations & maintenance for the rest of the fiscal year. Of course cramming a year worth of cuts into half the time is going to look bad. But the...
by Editorial Staff | Feb 5, 2013 | Australia & S. Pacific, Britain/U.K., Budgets, China, Contracts - Awards, Daily Rapid Fire, Leadership & People, Official Reports, USA
* The UK’ House of Commons’ Defence Committee published a report [PDF] on defence acquisition that raises a long list of concerns. The Ministry of Defence preempted one of them last week by publishing its Equipment Plan, just as the Committee was...
by Editorial Staff | Feb 4, 2013 | Africa - Other, Airbus, Contracts - Awards, Daily Rapid Fire, Germany, Industry & Trends, Leadership & People, UAVs
* German defense minister Thomas de Maizière confirmed that his country would seek armed UAVs. In response to earlier leaks in the press, some German politicians had voiced strong opposition to the Bundeswehr’s intent to use UCAVs, on legal and ethical grounds....
by Editorial Staff | Feb 1, 2013 | Alliances, Asia - Central, Contracts - Awards, Daily Rapid Fire, Official Reports, Pre-RFP, Procurement Innovations, Scandals & Investigations, Specialty Aircraft, USA
* NATO Secretary General Anders Rasmussen published his 2012 report, expressing his confidence in the Afghan security forces. However a chart shows the number of enemy-initiated attacks per month is still higher now than it was in 2009. A couple of Pac Man pie charts...
