by Joe Katzman | Feb 27, 2006 | Conferences & Events, Missiles - Precision Attack, Procurement Innovations, Project Successes, Raytheon, USA
JSOW-A: Not confetti…(click to view larger) The USA’s AGM-154 Joint Stand-Off Weapon (JSOW) precision glide-bomb has proven to be popular with the US DoD as well as foreign buyers. Indeed, the program has gone so well that the U.S. Department of Defense...
by Joe Katzman | Feb 27, 2006 | Contracts - Modifications, Engines - Aircraft, Forces - Marines, Materials Innovations, Other Corporation, USA
CH-46E Sea Knight General Electric Aircraft Engines in Lynn, MA received a $26.4 million modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed-priced contract (N00019-02-C-3021) to purchase 60 T58 engine reliability improvement program (ERIP) module kits, including titanium...
by Joe Katzman | Feb 27, 2006 | Asia - Central, Britain/U.K., Helicopters & Rotary, Materials Innovations, Middle East - Other, Rolls Royce, Testing & Evaluation
Lynx, landing(click to view full) A trial programme run by Britain’s Defence Logistic Organisation’s Helicopter Engines Integrated Project Team (HEIPT) is trying to reduce sand erosion to the Lynx helicopter Gem engine Low Pressure (LP) compressor blades....
by Joe Katzman | Feb 27, 2006 | Bases & Infrastructure, Contracts - Awards, Small Business, USA
Small business qualifier Mid Eastern Builders Inc. in Chesapeake, VA a $17.8 firm-fixed-price contract for munitions storage at Langley Air Force Base, VA. Work is expected to be complete by Jan. 30, 2008. There were 85 bids solicited on Oct. 31, 2005, and 6 bids were...
by Joe Katzman | Feb 27, 2006 | Fighters & Attack
A-10 Thunderbolt II Lockheed Martin Systems Integration in Owego, NY received a $28.5 million, firm fixed price, time and materials contract modification. This action provides for 60 each A-10 Thunderbolt II fighter precision engagement Spiral 1 modification kits,...
