by Joe Katzman | Feb 22, 2012 | Alliances, Asia - Central, Britain/U.K., Daily Rapid Fire, Fighters & Attack, Finmeccanica, Helicopters & Rotary, Japan, Specialty Aircraft
* Contract Pricing Reference Guides (CPRG) have been made available to the American defense acquisition workforce in PDF and MS Word format. They cover price and cost analysis, quantitative techniques for contract pricing, federal contract negotiation techniques, and...
by Joe Katzman | Feb 16, 2012 | Boeing, Contracts - Awards, Contracts - Intent, DARPA, Design Innovations, Fighters & Attack, Industry & Trends, Missiles - Air-Air, Missiles - Precision Attack, New Systems Tech, Other Corporation, R&D - Contracted, Raytheon, USA
Latest updates: Next-Gen Missile Termination. AARGM Concept(click to view larger) In early FY 2011, DARPA awarded a pair of initial contracts for something called the Triple Target Terminator. In their own words: “The Triple Target Terminator (T3) program will...
by Joe Katzman | Feb 16, 2012 | Airbus, Asia - Other, BAE, Britain/U.K., Budgets, Corporate Financials, Daily Rapid Fire, Europe - Other, Legal, Lobbying, Other Corporation, Transport & Utility, WMD
* BAE Systems announced its 2011 financial results: sales dropped by 14% to 19.2 billion pounds (about $30B) while the order book shrank by 8% to 36.2 billion pounds ($56.7B). US sales accounted for 47% of the total but the Platforms & Services US division is the...
by Joe Katzman | Feb 13, 2012 | Asia - Other, Britain/U.K., Budgets, China, DARPA, Helicopters & Rotary, Issues - Political, IT - Networks & Bandwidth, Medical, Official Reports, People, R&D - Contracted, Scandals & Investigations, T&C - Booz Allen
* [Update] The US DOD released its FY13 budget request. * Budget killer? With TRICARE costs spiraling, pharmacists and lawmakers are calling attention to the fact that the proposed merger of the USA’s only 2 national “pharmacy benefit managers” would...
by Joe Katzman | Feb 9, 2012 | Africa - Other, Alliances, Asia - Central, Britain/U.K., Corporate Financials, Daily Rapid Fire, Fighters & Attack, France, Helicopters & Rotary, India, Japan, Middle East - Other, Missiles - Air-Air, Official Reports, Raytheon, Rolls Royce, USA
* Truth, Lies, Afghanistan – and what this has to do with the Army’s Future Combat Systems. * Pakistan received its 18th and final new F-16C/D Block 52 fighter, and its 1st 2 upgraded F-16 fighters, under a multi-billion set of deals with the USA and...
