by Joe Katzman | Dec 14, 2011 | Domestic Security, Lockheed Martin, Northrop-Grumman, Scandals & Investigations, USA
Final updates: Deepwater officially done – updates from 2007-2011, as article closes. (click to view full) The US Coast Guard is currently operating vessels that date from the 1950s and 1960s, and a fleet-wide recapitalization is becoming an urgent priority...
by Joe Katzman | Dec 14, 2011 | ABM, Contracts - Modifications, Lockheed Martin, R&D - Contracted, Support Functions - Other, USA
In December 2010, the US Missile Defense Agency awarded Lockheed Martin Mission Systems and Sensors in Moorestown, NJ cost-plus-award-fee contract modification, with a total increased value of $184 million, “to allow for continued performance of future weapon...
by Joe Katzman | Dec 13, 2011 | Americas - Other, BAE, Britain/U.K., Budgets, Chemical Weapons, Coastal & Littoral, Daily Rapid Fire, Legal, Mergers & Acquisitions, Middle East - Other, Missiles - Surface-Air, Other Corporation, People, Raytheon, Rumours, Russia, Scandals & Investigations, Trucks & Transport, USA
* The Latest Defense AT&L [PDF] covers among other topics: contingency contracting (staying clear of mentioning the work of the now closed Commission on Wartime Contracting), the Afghan vendor base, critical path drag in project management, and collaboration...
by Joe Katzman | Dec 12, 2011 | Contracts - Awards, Electronics - General, Europe - Other, IT - Software & Integration, Lockheed Martin, Support & Maintenance, Support Functions - Other, Surface Ships - Combat, USA
F310, Gulf of Aden(click to view full) In December 2011, Lockheed Martin Mission Systems and Sensors in Moorestown, NJ received a $19.8 million cost-plus-incentive-fee, fixed-fee contract to support Norway’s Fridtjof Nansen frigates to July 2014. Exercising all...
by Joe Katzman | Dec 12, 2011 | BAE, Boeing, Budgets, Daily Rapid Fire, Design Innovations, Field Innovations, Fighters & Attack, France, General Dynamics, Helicopters & Rotary, Lockheed Martin, Procurement Innovations, Small Business, Transport & Utility, UAVs
* Is the FY12 defense authorization bill loaded with earmarks even though it’s not supposed to? We’ll see what actually comes out of conference in the final text of the bill sometime this week, possibly later today. * Lockheed Martin hopes to conclude F-35...