by Joe Katzman | Sep 20, 2012 | Contracts - Awards, Intelligence & PsyOps, IT - Software & Integration, Northrop-Grumman, USA, Warfare - Trends
(click to view full) In September 2012, Northrop Grumman Information Technology Inc. in McLean, VA received an $8.2 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to support the Biometric Identity Intelligence Resource System. Biometrics has found an important but unheralded...
by Joe Katzman | Sep 19, 2012 | Boeing, Britain/U.K., Contracts - Awards, FOCUS Articles, New Systems Tech, Other Corporation, Project Methodologies, T&C - SAIC, Testing & Evaluation, Transformation, UAVs, USA
Class 1 MAV(click to view full) The USA’s Future Combat Systems Class I UAV is intended for reconnaissance, security and target acquisition operations in nearly all terrain, including urban environments. Each system of 2 vertical take-off and landing air...
by Joe Katzman | Sep 17, 2012 | ABM, Contracts - Awards, Radars, Raytheon, USA
Clear Air Force Station:EWR is upper right(click to view full) In fall 2012 The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) and U.S. Air Force award Raytheon a $125.3 million contract to modernize and upgrade the US Air Force’s early warning radar (EWR) system at Clear AFS,...
by Joe Katzman | Sep 17, 2012 | ABM, BAE, Britain/U.K., Contracts - Awards, Europe - Other, Radars, Support & Maintenance, Support Functions - Other, USA
Fylingdales SSPARS In September 2012, BAE Systems Technology Solution and Services, Rockville, MD received a 6-year, $49.2 million contract modification to manage, operate, maintain and logistically support the Solid State Phased Array Radar Systems (SSPARS). This...
by Joe Katzman | Sep 13, 2012 | Israel, Middle East - Other, Warfare - Lessons
Hezbollah/Iran’s rockets In the aftermath of the 2006 war between Iran/Syria proxies Hezbollah and Israel, after action reviews and assessments began to trickle in. While war is inseparable in practice from political strategy, and the Olmert government’s...
