by Joe Katzman | Apr 21, 2006 | Boeing, Contracts - Modifications, Helicopters & Rotary, Support & Maintenance, USA
Home, home again…(click to view full) Boeing subsidiary McDonnell Douglas Helicopter Co. in Mesa, AZ received a $44.4 million modification to a firm-fixed-price contract for remanufacture of six AH-64D Apache Longbow attack helicopters. Longbows are fairly new,...
by Joe Katzman | Apr 21, 2006 | Contracts - Awards, Electronics - General, Environmental, Forces - Marines, New Systems Tech, Other Corporation, R&D - Contracted, USA
Smiths Detection Inc. in Edgewood, MD received a cost-plus-incentive fee/award-fee contract for a Meteorological Mobile Facility (METMF) replacement next generation (NEXGEN) prototype. Smiths Detection will design, fabricate, integrate, deliver and test a prototype...
by Joe Katzman | Apr 20, 2006 | Boeing, Bombs - Smart, Contracts - Awards, Israel, Lockheed Martin, New Systems Tech, Other Corporation, R&D - Contracted, Raytheon, USA
GBU-39: Gotcha.(click to see results) The Headquarters Air-To-Ground Munitions Systems Wing at Eglin Air Force Base, FL recently awarded two cost-plus fixed-fee R&D contracts under the GBU-39 Small Diameter Bomb (SDB) Increment II, 42-month Risk Reduction Phase....
by Joe Katzman | Apr 20, 2006 | Budgets, Europe - Other, France, Russia, USA
Each year, NATO publishes updated figures on its members’ defense expenditures, based on the NATO definition of the term. Data is also provide with respect to key outside entities. The alliance has been doing this since 1963, and expenditures are available in...
by Joe Katzman | Apr 20, 2006 | Corporate Innovations, Heavy Bombers, Materials Innovations, New Systems Tech, Northrop-Grumman, Project Successes, Support & Maintenance, USA
Can’t get it up?(click to view full) The $2.2 billion dollar B-2 Spirit stealth bomber has long suffered from a significant problem: maintaining its stealth requires a great deal of ground work involving tape and caulking. Given that stealth is the...
