by Joe Katzman | Oct 16, 2011 | BAE, Contracts - Awards, Other Equipment - Land, Trucks & Transport, USA
“Frag 7” HMMWV w. OGPK(click to view full) In early October 2011, BAE Systems Survivability Systems, LLC in Fairfield, OH received a $67.8 million firm-fixed-price contract for Overhead Gunner Protection Kit (OGPK) sub-assemblies. OGPK is an open gunner...
by Joe Katzman | Oct 14, 2011 | Contracts - Awards, People, Small Business, USA, Warfare - Lessons
Didn’t go well(click to view full) In October 2011, Data Solutions & Technology in Lanham, MD received a $9.7 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for Anti-Armor Analysis Program (AAAP) Services Support from the US Army. AAAP’s goal is to analyze...
by Joe Katzman | Oct 13, 2011 | Americas - Other, Contracts - Awards, France, Issues - Political, Surface Ships - Combat
FS Foudre(click to view full) When 2010 British budget cuts forced the Royal Navy to sell RFA Largs Bay just a few years into its service life, Chile’s need to deliver disaster relief from the sea made them one of the reported bidders. Largs Bay ended up heading...
by Joe Katzman | Oct 12, 2011 | Americas - Other, Budgets, Contracts - Awards, Daily Rapid Fire, Fighters & Attack, Helicopters & Rotary, Issues - Political, Lockheed Martin, Middle East - Other, Russia, Sensors & Guidance, Tanks & Mechanized, Think Tanks, Transport & Utility
* As expected, Egypt picks Lockheed Martin’s Sniper targeting pods to equip its new F-16s. Even as the words “targeting” and “Egypt” seems to refer more often to its Copt Christians. * US Army Top 2010 Inventions: infrared illuminating...
by Joe Katzman | Oct 11, 2011 | C4ISR, Contracts - Awards, Electronics - General, Finmeccanica, IT - Software & Integration, Support Functions - Other, USA
FBCB2 in HMMWV, Iraq(click to view full) Finmeccanica subsidiary DRS Tactical Systems, Inc. in Melbourne, FL recently received a $248.3 million firm-fixed-price indefinite-delivery/ indefinite-quantity contract for Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below (FBCB2)...
