by Editorial Staff | Mar 6, 2013 | Africa - Other, Australia & S. Pacific, Daily Rapid Fire, Fighters & Attack, Finmeccanica, Germany, India, Industry & Trends, Legal, Lockheed Martin, Northrop-Grumman, Official Reports, Scandals & Investigations, Turkey
* The US House of Representatives will vote on HR 933 today, a bill which would fund DoD through the end of the current fiscal year. The White House implies [PDF] that it will likely get signed. * The US House of Representatives Armed Services Committee is holding...
by Editorial Staff | Mar 5, 2013 | Asia - Central, Britain/U.K., Budgets, China, Daily Rapid Fire, France, Germany, India, Leadership & People, Logistics, USA
* Chairman of the US House of Representatives’ Appropriations Committee Hal Rogers [R-KY] introduced a bill yesterday that mixes appropriations for the departments of Defense and Veteran Affairs with an extended Continuing Resolution for other federal agencies...
by Editorial Staff | Mar 4, 2013 | Budgets, China, Daily Rapid Fire, Fuel & Power, Israel, Japan, Russia, Scandals & Investigations, Turkey, UAVs, USA
* The US Army will continue to adjust its forces in Germany and Italy in the next three years, with some units to be deactivated or return to the US. The US will still have more than 50,000 troops in these two countries 70 years after the end of WWII. * The US...
by Joe Katzman | Mar 2, 2013 | Contracts - Awards, Design Innovations, Logistics Innovations, Materials Innovations, New Systems Tech, R&D - Contracted, Science - Basic Research, University-related, USA
JHU/APL photo The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory is a not-for-profit division that works closely with the US military on a range of research topics. As a Navy University Affiliated Research Center, these capabilities have been established and...
by Editorial Staff | Mar 1, 2013 | Britain/U.K., Contracts - Awards, Daily Rapid Fire, Issues - Political, Legal, UAVs, USA
* When a so-called super-committee was formed to negotiate US federal budget trade-offs, the conventional wisdom was that a lot of drama would be followed by a final hour deal. When the committee failed, it set in motion a sequestration trigger that, again, most...
