by Joe Katzman | Mar 10, 2009 | C4ISR, Contracts - Awards, IT - Networks & Bandwidth, Other Corporation, USA
You’re coming where? Verizon Business Network Services Inc. in Ashburn, VA won a $2.5 billion under the firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/ indefinite-quantity Defense Information Systems Network (DISN) transmission services – Pacific II (DTS-P II)...
by Joe Katzman | Mar 10, 2009 | C4ISR, Coastal & Littoral, Contracts - Awards, Europe - Other, France, Guns - 20-59 mm direct, Guns - Artillery & Mortars, Middle East - Other, Missiles - Anti-Ship, New Systems Tech, Other Corporation, Rockets, Signals Radio & Wireless, Simulation & Training, Surface Ships - Combat, Tanks & Mechanized, Thales, USA
Begun in 2001, IDEX in the United Arab Emirates has become the Middle East’s biggest defense show. The UAE is a significant buyer in its own right, as illustrated in “UAE Announces Deals at IDEX 2007,” which covered a range of deals for advanced...
by Joe Katzman | Mar 9, 2009 | Engines - Aircraft, Fighters & Attack, GE, Heavy Bombers, Specialty Aircraft, Support & Maintenance, USA
F101 testing, AEDC(click to view full) General Electric Aircraft Engines of Cincinnati, OH recently received an estimated $214.9 million modification to a firm-fixed price contract. The contract will take care of GE sole source spares for its F101, F110, and F118...
by Joe Katzman | Mar 9, 2009 | Australia & S. Pacific, Fighters & Attack, MBDA, Missiles - Air-Air, Testing & Evaluation
ASRAAM on RAAF F/A-18A(click to view full) Key advances have been made in short-range air-to-air missiles and work well in combination with helmet-mounted sights. The combination of new wide-angle ‘staring’ seekers, exponential growth in onboard computer...
by Joe Katzman | Mar 8, 2009 | Avionics, Helicopters & Rotary, Industry & Trends, IT - Cyber-Security, Middle East - Other, Security & Secrecy, Transformation, USA, Warfare - Trends
VH-3D (top), VH-60N(click to view full) P2P Intelligence firm Tiversa claims that in Oct/Nov 2008, it traced a file that contains details regarding the VH-60N Presidential Helicopter’s CAAS avionics architecture, and some program financial data, on public-access...
