by Joe Katzman | Jun 1, 2010 | Australia & S. Pacific, Contracts - Intent, General Dynamics, Support Functions - Other, Tanks & Mechanized
ASLAV-25, Afghanistan(click to view full) The ASLAV is a variant of General Dynamics Land Systems’ LAV-II/LAV-25 wheeled armored vehicles, which are in use by the US Marines, Canadian military and other customers. GD MOWAG markets a similar vehicle as the...
by Joe Katzman | May 31, 2010 | Contracts - Awards, Design Innovations, Forces - Special Ops, L3 Communications, New Systems Tech, Soldier's Gear, USA
M4 SOPMOD(click to view full) L-3 Communications subsidiary EOTech, Inc. in Ann Arbor, MI received a $25 million sole-source, firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/ indefinite-quantity contract, to provide their optical sighting system for U.S. Special Operations...
by Joe Katzman | May 30, 2010 | DID site, Memoriam
Honor & Reflect(click to view cartoon) Monday, May 31st 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 urged to peruse the US Department of Defense’s...
by Joe Katzman | May 27, 2010 | Guest Articles, Issues - Political, Policy - Procurement, USA
Sen. Tom Coburn(click to view full) Guest article by Sen. Tom Coburn, R-OK This memorandum describes what I believe are serious problems in our defense budget and some ideas to address them. I appreciate that some of these thoughts are controversial – even to...
by Joe Katzman | May 25, 2010 | Contracts - Awards, Electronics - General, General Dynamics, IT - General, IT - Networks & Bandwidth, IT - Software & Integration, Lockheed Martin, T&C - SAIC
(click to view full) Modern navies run on computers. Unfortunately, computers don’t last nearly as long as ships, something that’s both a hardware and a software problem. The computer console over there might be up to operating key systems on a...
