by Joe Katzman | Aug 31, 2011 | Contracts - Awards, Lockheed Martin, Other Corporation, Simulation & Training, USA
Sniper event gear(click to view full) At the end of August 2011, the U.S. Army Contracting Command in Warren, MI issued a maximum $475 million firm-fixed-price indefinite-delivery / indefinite-quantity multiple-award-contract for the Army Targetry Systems program....
by Joe Katzman | Aug 31, 2011 | Americas - Other, Contracts - Intent, Missiles - Surface-Air, Raytheon, Surface Ships - Combat, USA
BAP Carvajal(click to view full) Italian-built Lupo Class frigates currently form the high-end backbone of Peru’s navy, with 8 of the 3,000t Carvajal Class ships serving. Four were built under license from 1984-1987, and the 2nd batch of 4 ships was...
by Joe Katzman | Aug 31, 2011 | Biological Weapons, Chemical Weapons, Contracts - Awards, Nuclear Weapons, Other Corporation, Support Functions - Other, USA, WMD Defenses, WMD Detection, WMD Proliferation
The US Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) has a central role in addressing the threat of weapons of mass destruction (WMD). Their Research and Development Enterprise [PDF] is especially wide-ranging, covering everything from protective gear, to predictive and...
by Joe Katzman | Aug 31, 2011 | Contracts - Awards, DARPA, Medical, R&D - Contracted, University-related, USA
Aug 30/11: The President and Fellows of Harvard College in Cambridge, MA receive a $6.7 million cost reimbursement contract for research to develop technologies and approaches to predict natural viral evolution. We’d all benefit from that, but we’re still...
by Joe Katzman | Aug 30, 2011 | Asia - Central, Contracts - Awards, Security Contractor, Support Functions - Other, USA
In late August 2011, Dyncorp International, LLC in Falls Church, VA received a $146.6 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to help train Afghanistan’s Ministry of the Interior personnel, on behalf of the Combined Security Transition Command – Afghanistan....
