by Joe Katzman | Jul 14, 2006 | DARPA, Fuel & Power, Materials Innovations, RFPs, Science - Basic Research, USA
Reader Lisa Wright tips us to the fact that DARPA is interested in R&D proposals to develop a process that efficiently produces a surrogate for petroleum based military jet fuel (JP-8) from oil-rich crops produced by either agriculture or aquaculture (including...
by Joe Katzman | Jul 13, 2006 | Britain/U.K., Industry & Trends, Policy - Procurement, Procurement Innovations
UK MoD Over the last couple of years, DID has noted the UK’s innovative “Future Contracting for Availability” life-cycle approach to equipment maintenance, and highlighted its use in a number of articles. That approach became a formal procurement...
by Joe Katzman | Jul 13, 2006 | Airbus, Boeing, Fighters & Attack, Industry & Trends, Lockheed Martin, Other Corporation, Projections & Assessments
Italian Eurofighter(click to view full) “This report is intended to provide an objective basis for estimating the true costs of combat aircraft for their domestic buyers, at a time when manufacturers, locked in increasingly bitter competition on the export...
by Joe Katzman | Jul 13, 2006 | BAE, Contracts - Awards, ECM, Helicopters & Rotary, New Systems Tech, Project Successes, Protective Systems - Aircraft, Support & Maintenance, Transport & Utility, USA
UH-60+CMWS in Iraq(click to view full) On April 17, DID noted a $52 million contract to BAE for AN/AAR-57 Common Missile Warning Systems (CMWS) to protect Army fixed and rotary-wing aircraft against infrared guided missile threats. BAE Systems’ CMWS program...
by Joe Katzman | Jul 13, 2006 | Corporate Innovations, Delivery & Task Orders, Forces - Special Ops, Small Business, Support Functions - Other, USA
Small business qualifier The Wexford Group International in Vienna, VA received a delivery order amount of $9.4 million as part of a $237.8 million fixed-price, level-of-effort contract for contractual support requirements for the Asymmetric Warfare Group...
