by Joe Katzman | Aug 13, 2014 | Australia & S. Pacific, Avionics, Britain/U.K., Canada, Coastal & Littoral, Contracts - Awards, Helicopters & Rotary, L3 Communications, Official Reports, Other Corporation, Policy - Procurement, Procurement Innovations, Specialty Aircraft, Support & Maintenance, USA
CP-140 Aurora(click to view full) The CP-140 Aurora is a ‘Canadianized’ variant of the P-3 Orion aircraft used in the maritime surveillance role by the USA and many other countries. Like their fellow P-3s around the world, however, the Auroras have flown...
by Joe Katzman | Aug 10, 2014 | Contracts - Awards, Israel, Issues - International, Issues - Political, Other Corporation, Rumours, Russia, UAVs
Searcher II with SAR(click to view full) Since 2007, we’ve been treated to ongoing speculation about Syria buying Russian weapons with Iranian financing, including reports of MiG-31 and MiG-29 fighters. Some reports even placed the Islamic Republic of Iran as...
by Joe Katzman | Aug 6, 2014 | Airbus, Alliances, Budgets, C4ISR, Canada, Contracts - Awards, Europe - Other, France, General Dynamics, Germany, Interoperability, New Systems Tech, Northrop-Grumman, Official Reports, Other Corporation, Partnerships & Consortia, R&D - Contracted, Radars, Raytheon, Specialty Aircraft, Thales, Transformation, UAVs, USA
What is it good for?(click to view full) The Alliance Ground Surveillance (AGS) program began in 1995, and it has taken a very long time. Its MoU was late, its contract will be both late and smaller in scope, and it won’t meet even a revised 2012 – 2014...
by Joe Katzman | Aug 5, 2014 | Asia - Central, Contracts - Intent, Europe - Other, Helicopters & Rotary, Policy - Procurement, Support & Maintenance, USA
Swedish HKP-16(click to view full) In September 2010, required DSCA arms sale notifications announced a possible Swedish buy of up to 15 UH-60M Black Hawk helicopters, plus side items like engines, defensive systems, and support, for up to $546 million. Their mission?...
by Joe Katzman | Jul 31, 2014 | Airbus, Boeing, Budgets, Canada, FOCUS Articles, Force Structure, Issues - Political, Lockheed Martin, Other Corporation, Policy - Procurement, Power Projection, Pre-RFP, Procurement Innovations, Project Failures, Project Methodologies, Rolls Royce, Support & Maintenance, Think Tanks, Transformation, Transport & Utility, United Technologies
CC-130 over BC(click to view full) The US military has been coming to the realization that its aging aircraft fleet will begin posing serious challenges in the coming years. Canada is experiencing similar problems. In 2005, Chief of the Defence Staff Gen. Rick Hillier...
