by Joe Katzman | Mar 1, 2006 | Delivery & Task Orders, Guns - Personal Weapons, Small Business, USA
M4 MWS(click to view full) Small business qualifier Knight’s Armament Co. in Titusville, FL received a delivery order amount of $31 million as part of a $110.8 million firm-fixed-price contract for the Modular Weapon System in support of the M16A4 Rifle and M4...
by Joe Katzman | Mar 1, 2006 | Ammunition
Practice makes perfect The Army Field Support Command in Rock Island, IL awarded a pair of modifications to a firm-fixed-price contract for M831A1 Target Practice Tracer 120mm Cartridges and M865 Target Practice Cone Stabilized Discarding Sabot Tracer 120mm...
by Joe Katzman | Mar 1, 2006 | Bases & Infrastructure, Delivery & Task Orders, Force Structure, Fuel & Power, Other Corporation, Submarines, USA
Sunset at NB Kitsap(click to view full) Naval Base Kitsap is the largest naval organization in Navy Region Northwest and is composed of installations in Bremerton, Bangor and Keyport, hosting many SSN Los Angeles Class attack subs and SSBN Trident missile subs, plus...
by Joe Katzman | Feb 28, 2006 | Budgets, Financial & Accounting, Issues - Political, News, Scandals & Investigations, USA
Defense reform critics like Chuck Spinney, and government organizations like the GAO, have complained for years that the Pentagon’s accounting system is broken. Considerable amounts of money are still being spent trying to improve the services’ systems in...
by Joe Katzman | Feb 28, 2006 | BAE, Budgets, General Dynamics, Policy - Procurement, Tanks & Mechanized, USA
M1A2 Abrams TUSK(click to view full) InsideDefense.com describes the ripple effect spreading outward from eleventh hour cuts to the Army’s portion of the FY 2006 supplemental spending request, which stripped more than $2.6 billion for key improvements to Abrams...
