by Fred Donovan | Dec 29, 2009 | Contracts - Awards, Missiles - Ballistic
The newly established USAF Global Strike Command (AFGSC) is taking over responsibility for the USA’s ICBM force as part of an effort to unify all USAF nuclear assets under 1 command. Based at Barksdale Air Force Base, LA, the command was stood up on Aug 7/09 to...
by Fred Donovan | Dec 29, 2009 | Avionics, Contracts - Awards, Delivery & Task Orders, Other Corporation, Sensors & Guidance, Simulation & Training, UAVs, USA
BQM-167A AFSAT Launch Herley Industries in Lancaster, PA received a multi-year option contract with a potential value of $16 million from prime contractor Composite Engineering in Sacramento, CA to supply Herley’s avionics suite for the BQM-167A Air Force...
by Fred Donovan | Dec 28, 2009 | Equipment - Other, Explosives, Launch Vehicles, Mergers & Acquisitions, Mines & Countermine-IED, Missiles - Ballistic, Other Corporation, Other Weapons, Satellites & Sensors, Sensors - Aquatic, USA
OM Group in Cleveland, OH agreed to acquire EaglePicher Technologies, a Joplin, MO-based manufacturer of batteries, battery management systems and energetic devices for the defense, aerospace, and medical industries, from EaglePicher Corp. for $171.9 million. In...
by Fred Donovan | Dec 28, 2009 | Delivery & Task Orders, Forces - Marines, Logistics, Other Corporation, Soldier's Gear, Support Functions - Other, USA
US Marines on patrol(click to view larger) Kalman and Co. in Virginia Beach, VA received a $6.9 million task order to provide business and analytical support to the US Marine Corps Systems Command, Program Manager, Infantry Combat Equipment (PM ICE), Combat Equipment...
by Fred Donovan | Dec 27, 2009 | C4ISR, Contracts - Modifications, Intelligence & PsyOps, IT - General, IT - Networks & Bandwidth, L3 Communications, Outer Space, Satellites & Sensors, Support Functions - Other, USA
L-3 Services, a Reston, VA-based subsidiary of L-3 Communications, received a $55.7 million indefinite-delivery/ indefinite-quantity, cost-plus-incentive-fee modification to a previously awarded contract (N65236-07-D-5879) to support tactical satellite,...
