by Joe Katzman | Oct 6, 2011 | Contracts - Awards, Expeditionary Warfare, Forces - Marines
What’s Plan B?(click to view full) Small business qualifier Skill Metric Machine & Tool, Inc. in Delray Beach, FL recently received a 5-year, maximum $48.5 million, indefinite-delivery/ indefinite-quantity contract for AM-2 metal matting accessory packages,...
by Joe Katzman | Oct 6, 2011 | Americas - Other, BAE, Contracts - Intent, Force Structure, Guns - 20-59 mm direct, Guns - under 20mm direct, L3 Communications, Other Corporation, Radars, Raytheon, Tanks & Mechanized, Thales, Trucks & Transport, USA
Latest updates: Clarity from BAE. Spanish M109A5,Brite Star 2001(click to view full) In June 2009, Chile’s formal request to buy a variety of artillery-related systems and equip a new mechanized artillery battalion was cleared by the US state Department, and...
by Joe Katzman | Oct 5, 2011 | Contracts - Awards, Missiles - Air-Air, Raytheon, USA
AIM-9X test launch, F-18C(click for close-up) Raytheon’s AIM-9X Block II would have made Top Gun a very short movie. It’s the USA’s most advanced short range air-air missile, capable of using its datalink, thrust vectoring maneuverability, and...
by Joe Katzman | Oct 5, 2011 | Boeing, Budgets, Corporate Innovations, Daily Rapid Fire, Europe - Other, Issues - Political, Middle East - Other, Policy - Doctrine, Scandals & Investigations, Specialty Aircraft, Think Tanks, Transformation, Transport & Utility, USA, Warfare - Trends
* After 15 years of pile-up, rising metal prices and clever thinking turned 30 million pounds of scrap at Thule AB, Greenland, into a full site cleanup plus $1 million. * Boeing has returned another E-4B national command and control aircraft to the USAF, after...
by Joe Katzman | Oct 3, 2011 | C4ISR, Contracts - Awards, Forces - Special Ops, Helicopters & Rotary, Memoriam, Other Corporation, Sensors & Guidance, USA
MH-6M’s NASCAR visit(click to view full) US Special Operations Command’s helicopters are some of its most important assets. The service will need new helicopters in the near future, but meanwhile, they’re busy modernizing the helicopters they have....
