by Joe Katzman | Dec 5, 2013 | Africa - Other, Australia & S. Pacific, Britain/U.K., Daily Rapid Fire, Design Innovations, Europe - Other, Fighters & Attack, IT - Cyber-Security, Lockheed Martin, Other Corporation, T&C - Booz Allen, USA
USA * One of Deputy Secretary of Defense Ashton B. Carter’s last acts involved an interim policy to replace the previous DoD Instruction 5000.02 acquisition guidelines supplement. The defense Acquisition Portal’s Program Management Community of Practice...
by Joe Katzman | Dec 4, 2013 | Airbus, Contracts - Awards, Finmeccanica, GE, Germany, IT - Software & Integration, New Systems Tech, Other Corporation, Radars, Simulation & Training, Surface Ships - Combat, Transformation, Warfare - Trends
F125 Concept(click to expand) Over the last decade, a belief has taken root in global naval circles that shallow littoral chokepoints for maritime trade, operations in and around failed states like Somalia, and expeditionary stabilization operations, will become key...
by Joe Katzman | Dec 4, 2013 | Asia, Australia & S. Pacific, Contracts - Awards, Daily Rapid Fire, European Union (EU), Israel, Issues - International, Issues - Political, IT - Cyber-Security, IT - Software & Integration, Leadership & People, Simulation & Training, USA
USA * Christine Fox will succeed Ashton Carter as the USA’s Deputy Defense Secretary. The acting DDS is a budget specialist who was part of a recent management review, and has served as president of the federally funded R&D Center for Naval Analyses. * After...
by Joe Katzman | Dec 3, 2013 | Africa - Other, China, Contracts - Awards, Corporate Innovations, Daily Rapid Fire, Fighters & Attack, Israel, Japan, Middle East - Other, Nuclear Weapons, Saudi Arabia, USA
Middle East * Iran’s Condor Legion, Hezbollah, has been fighting and even running large sections of Assad’s war in Syria for some months now. With the USA on the sidelines and ineffective, the Gulf Arab states are reportedly recruiting a Sunni counterforce...
by Joe Katzman | Dec 2, 2013 | Airbus, Canada, China, Daily Rapid Fire, Events, Israel, Issues - International, Issues - Political, Japan, Launch Vehicles, Northrop-Grumman, Other Corporation, Raytheon, RFPs, Scandals & Investigations, South Korea, UAVs, United Arab Emirates (UAE), USA, Warfare - Lessons
Plan B: We just call Mel Gibson… * The Scottish Government has put forward its proposed plans for independence, including details its foreign relations and defense plans. Since then, Thin Pinstriped Line has been methodically backing up its claim that the SDF...
