by Joe Katzman | Jun 5, 2011 | Contracts - Awards, Delivery & Task Orders, Environmental, Europe - Other, Other Corporation, USA
(click to visit) Defense purchase coverage often focuses on weapons, but in FY 2010, weapon procurement is actually only 20.1% of the Pentagon’s budget. By comparison, “Operations and Maintenance” took up 34.7%. That $180+ billion total includes a...
by Joe Katzman | Jun 2, 2011 | Contracts - Modifications, Other Corporation, Signals Radio & Wireless, Support & Maintenance, USA
Mounted RT-1523 SINCGARS(click to view full) SINCGARS (Single Channel Ground and Airborne Radio System) is the U.S. Army’s current core tactical radio technology, ordered since 1983 and deployed in over 130 military platforms, such as Humvees (HMMWV), Bradley...
by Joe Katzman | May 31, 2011 | Asia - Other, Contracts - Awards, Delivery & Task Orders, Middle East - Other, Other Corporation, Spotlight articles, Trucks & Transport, USA
Iraqi Policeman,Baghdad(click to view full) $146M order. (May 27/11) Global Fleet Sales, Inc. is a member of the RM Asia Group of Companies, and has a long history of working in “difficult market situations” to produce modified and baseline Ford vehicles...
by Joe Katzman | May 30, 2011 | Asia - Other, C4ISR, Daily Rapid Fire, Force Structure, GPS Infrastructure, Industry & Trends, Interoperability, Other Corporation, Russia, Surface Ships - Combat, USA
* President Medvedev is longing for the good old days when poor contract performance earned a Siberian home, Russia is prosecuting people for a catastrophically failed GLONASS GPS launch… and now Russia’s chief military prosecutor Sergei Fridinsky tells...
by Joe Katzman | May 29, 2011 | Contracts - Awards, DID site, Memoriam
Honor & Reflect(click to view cartoon) Monday, May 30th is Memorial Day in the USA. DID honors those who have given all of their tomorrows in American military service; we will not be publishing. Readers are reminded that in America, the Memorial Day moment of...
