Rapid Fire: 2010-06-23
- 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 of the Generation III AN/PVS-14 monocular goggle).
