by Joe Katzman | Apr 26, 2012 | Contracts - Awards, Design Innovations, Field Reports, Logistics, Other Equipment - Land, Project Successes, Small Business, USA
Latest updates: Up to $228M in contracts, FY 2012-2015. Afghan drop(click to view full) Low-velocity parachutes are so named because they’re used for cargo airdrops made below about 1,200 feet, with the cargo aircraft flying at low speed as parachute-rigged...
by Joe Katzman | Apr 26, 2012 | Brazil, Corporate Financials, Daily Rapid Fire, Events, Fighters & Attack, General Dynamics, Helicopters & Rotary, L3 Communications, Lobbying, Lockheed Martin, People, Policy - Doctrine, Policy - Procurement, Raytheon, Surface Ships - Other, USA, Warfare - Lessons, Warfare - Trends
* Q1 results are in for L-3 Communications, Lockheed Martin and Raytheon. They are all showing more topline resilience than Northrop Grumman. Quick summary table of their sales and backlog at the bottom of this entry. * Lockheed Martin’s CEO Bob Stevens will...
by Joe Katzman | Apr 25, 2012 | BAE, Contracts - Awards, Design Innovations, Forces - Special Ops, Guns - under 20mm direct, Helicopters & Rotary, Testing & Evaluation, USA
Latest updates: DOT&E test report; Contract for IDWS improvements. RGS for V-22(click to view full) In the past specific and detailed allegations were made concerning the V-22 Osprey’s performance, testing flaws, and survivability issues in anything beyond...
by Joe Katzman | Apr 25, 2012 | Contracts - Awards, Other Corporation, Support & Maintenance, Transport & Utility, USA
C-9B Skytrain II(click to view full) In April 2012, King Aerospace, Inc. in Addison, TX receives a not-to-exceed $11.1 million indefinite-delivery requirements contract to support 6 C-9B aircraft. This effort includes base site operations, depot planned maintenance...
by Joe Katzman | Apr 23, 2012 | Asia - Other, Contracts - Awards, Other Corporation, Surface Ships - Other
ST’s “LST” & landing craft(click to view larger) In November 2008, ST Engineering subsidiary Singapore Technologies Marine Ltd (ST Marine), reported that they had “secured a contract in a basket of currencies amounting to about...
