by Joe Katzman | Aug 31, 2006 | Airbus, BAE, Europe - Other, Events, Fighters & Attack, Lockheed Martin, Other Corporation, Pre-RFP
Norway: another onebites the dust?(click to view full) In our May 11, 2006 article “Norway’s Future Fighter Competition: A Norwegian View,” Endre Lunde described how the replacement for the country’s F-16 fighters had evolved into a 4-way...
by Joe Katzman | Aug 30, 2006 | Airbus, C4ISR, Contracts - Awards, Domestic Security, Europe - Other, IT - General, Signals Radio & Wireless
(click to view full) EADS recently announced a contract win of up to EUR 1 billion from the Procurement Office in Germany’s Federal Ministry of the Interior. The BOS digital radio system for German security authorities and organizations will feature EADS as...
by Joe Katzman | Aug 30, 2006 | ABM, Official Reports, Project Management, Radars, Raytheon, USA
SBX radar, Pearl Harbor(click to view full) All military technologies have their teething periods, and especially advanced examples often have longer ones. The SBX X-band radar offers a quantum leap in capabilities, and can even be floated into position in order to...
by Joe Katzman | Aug 30, 2006 | Contracts - Awards, Design Innovations, Logistics Innovations, New Systems Tech, R&D - Contracted, Surface Ships - Other, University-related, USA
Seabasing slide(click to view full) Florida Atlantic University’s SeaTech – Institute for Ocean and Systems Engineering in Dania Beach, which is part of the College of Engineering and Computer Science, has been awarded a $2 million grant by the Office of...
by Joe Katzman | Aug 29, 2006 | India, Official Reports, Policy - Procurement
Independent watchdog agencies are a reliable feature of advanced democracies. Their influence is usually indirect, but occasionally their reports or directives have a more immediate impact on military projects. India’s Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) has...