by Fred Donovan | Feb 15, 2011 | BAE, Bases & Infrastructure, Budgets, Contracts - Awards, Daily Rapid Fire, Helicopters & Rotary, Industry & Trends, Issues - Political, Mergers & Acquisitions, Robots, Russia, Scandals & Investigations, Support & Maintenance, Surface Ships - Combat, UAVs, USA
* What about FY 2011?: While the Pentagon is asking for $671 billion in FY 2012 (DoD Comptroller breakdown), Gates tells Congress, “We need $540 billion in FY 2011!” * The Russian Defense Ministry grounds its fleet of Mi-28 attack helicopters after an...
by Fred Donovan | Feb 14, 2011 | Alliances, Americas - Other, Asia - Other, Britain/U.K., Budgets, Contracts - Awards, Daily Rapid Fire, Delivery & Task Orders, Events, Fighters & Attack, Food-related, Fuel & Power, General Dynamics, IAI, IT - General, IT - Networks & Bandwidth, Leadership & People, Legal, Materials Innovations, Middle East - Other, Official Reports, Other Corporation, Policy - Personnel, Russia, Soldier's Gear, Specialty Aircraft, Training & Exercises, USA
* Obama administration’s fiscal year 2012 budget [PDF] boosts defense spending by $22 billion over FY 2010 appropriations, to $671 billion, while projecting $78 billion in “savings” through 2016. [Update: 2013 request.] * Russia’s armed forces...
by Fred Donovan | Feb 13, 2011 | Americas - Other, Bases & Infrastructure, Budgets, Contracts - Awards, Daily Rapid Fire, DARPA, ECM, Engines - Aircraft, Europe - Other, Fighters & Attack, Finmeccanica, Honeywell, India, Industry & Trends, Issues - International, Other Corporation, RFPs, Rolls Royce, Russia, Specialty Aircraft, Submarines, Support & Maintenance, Surface Ships - Combat, Surface Ships - Other, UAVs, USA
* Russia plans to build up defenses and deploy armaments on Kuril Islands on its Pacific coast, islands that have been disputed with Japan since WWII. As noted last week, Mistral type LHDs will also be part of that move. * US Navy explains exactly which repairs and...
by Fred Donovan | Feb 10, 2011 | Airbus, Bases & Infrastructure, Blimps & LTA Craft, Boeing, Britain/U.K., Budgets, C4ISR, China, Contracts - Awards, Daily Rapid Fire, Electronics - General, Engines - Aircraft, Equipment - Other, Europe - Other, Fighters & Attack, General Dynamics, India, Northrop-Grumman, Other Corporation, Policy - Doctrine, Raytheon, RFPs, Russia, Specialty Aircraft, Support & Maintenance, Thales, USA
* Ignoring pleas from the DoD and defense companies, the House plans to fund the government through the rest of the fiscal year with a continuing resolution, which will include $74 billion in spending cuts. * Joint Chiefs of Staff releases first update to its National...
by Fred Donovan | Feb 9, 2011 | Budgets, China, Conferences & Events, Contracts - Awards, Corporate Financials, Daily Rapid Fire, Electronics - General, Forces - Special Ops, Grenades, Guns - Personal Weapons, India, Industry & Trends, Logistics, Mergers & Acquisitions, Missiles - Ballistic, Northrop-Grumman, Nuclear Weapons, Signals Radio & Wireless, USA, WMD Detection
* Aero India 2011 exhibition takes flight. * The USA OKs its next-generation SSBN-X nuclear missile submarines for Milestone A studies, to accompany missile compartment contracts already underway. * Even as reports gather that China has tested submarine-launched...
