by Joe Katzman | Mar 31, 2013 | Contracts - Awards, Engines & Propulsion - Naval, Guns - under 20mm direct, Northrop-Grumman, Testing & Evaluation, USA
Somewhere, overthe rainbow…(click to view full) Nuclear reactors save a lot of diesel fuel on huge ships like aircraft carriers, but there’s a catch. Mid-way through the ship’s 50-year life, the nuclear reactor needs to be refueled. The resulting...
by Editorial Staff | Mar 29, 2013 | Budgets, Contracts - Awards, Daily Rapid Fire, France, Legal, Official Reports, Think Tanks, USA
* The US GAO’s most recent batch of defense reports is focused on acquisition, starting with their latest assessment of Selected Weapon Programs (the infamous SAR report itself has not been publicly released by the Pentagon yet), while a 2nd report finds some IT...
by Editorial Staff | Mar 28, 2013 | China, Daily Rapid Fire, Israel, Japan, People, Policy - Doctrine, Textron, USA
* US NAVAIR’s Air Combat Electronics office (PMA209) recently held an industry day on the Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE). Here is the slidedeck [PDF] explaining that FACE is a standard of standards set to re-architect the acquisition of aircraft...
by Editorial Staff | Mar 27, 2013 | Budgets, Issues - Political, IT - Cyber-Security, Legal, Lobbying, Official Reports, Policy - Personnel, Spotlight articles, Think Tanks, USA
On normal years the US Department of Defense goes through a complicated-enough process to establish and finalize its budget. But whereas FY 2012 offered a welcome return to normalcy after a very long continuing resolution, the budgeting cycle for fiscal year 2013...
by Editorial Staff | Mar 27, 2013 | Africa - Other, Asia - Central, Asia - Other, Australia & S. Pacific, Daily Rapid Fire, European Union (EU), Legal, Logistics, Middle East - Other, Russia, USA
* The US Defense Acquisition University will host a workshop on (Better Buying Poker) Better Buying Power in Fort Belvoir, VA, on April 9. On the agenda: should cost, data rights, performance-based logistics. * Australia’s phased withdrawal from Afghanistan will...
