Rapid Fire: 2010-06-23

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* PricewaterhouseCoopers: Asia-Pacific aerospace and defense market is predicted to grow 70% over the next 20 years. * Corruption in Afghanistan: it isn’t just a problem for the government’s forces… * Frost & Sullivan: DoD is expected to offset a dip in C4ISR research and development spending with an increase in C4ISR supplies, services, and deployed technologies. * Going Public: Carlyle Group looks to raise $300 million by selling shares in defense contractor Booz Allen Hamilton through an IPO. * Insourcing provisions in the 2011 defense authorization bills sparks concern by government contractors’ trade group. * USAF developing MEDEVAC (aeroMEDical EVACuation) procedures for its new short-field C-27Js, which are set to become a key link in that chain. * Donaldson wins order for no-moving-parts, no maintenance air filtration in new EQ-36 counterfire radars. * Hurt Locker: RELYANT gets a $49 million US Army contract to provide unexploded ordnance removal and mine clearance in southern and western Afghanistan. * Here Comes the Sun: Ascent Solar Technologies wins DARPA contract to develop portable photovoltaics for battlefield power systems. * Night Vision: The UK Ministry of Defence is placing a $53 million order with ITT to buy head-mounted night vision systems (a variant […]

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