by Joe Katzman | Feb 21, 2006 | Corporate Financials, General Dynamics, Industry & Trends, L3 Communications, Lockheed Martin, Mergers & Acquisitions, Other Corporation, Policy - Procurement, Small Business, USA
Breugel: click to visitThe Metropolitan Museum Andrew Leckey has some interesting observations about the US defense industry as a whole right now. The hot tickets, he says, are information technology, communication, and high-tech equipment designed to assist soldiers...
by Joe Katzman | Feb 21, 2006 | Boeing, C4ISR, Contracts - Awards, IT - Networks & Bandwidth, New Systems Tech, R&D - Contracted, Satellites & Sensors, USA
WGS Boeing Satellite Systems Inc. in El Segundo, CA received a $148.2 million firm-fixed incentive with firm-target contract. It instructs Boeing to begin work on the fourth satellite in the Wideband Gapfiller Satellite (WGS) system, a set of 13-kilowatt spacecraft...
by Joe Katzman | Feb 21, 2006 | C4ISR, Contracts - Awards, Europe - Other, IT - Networks & Bandwidth, Other Corporation, USA
Lucent Technologies Inc is being awarded a firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/ indefinite-quantity contract to provide the forward-deployed war-fighter critical Command and Control (C2) information and IT services over a broadband gigabit optical network for the...
by Joe Katzman | Feb 21, 2006 | Bases & Infrastructure, Contracts - Awards, Environmental, Fighters & Attack, Other Corporation, USA
Kiewit Building Group Inc. in Omaha, NB won a $27 million firm-fixed-price contract for construction of an Air Force weather agency headquarters at Offutt Air Force Base, NB. Work is expected to be complete by Oct. 22, 2007. There were 23 bids solicited on Oct. 11,...
by Joe Katzman | Feb 20, 2006 | Conferences & Events, FOCUS Articles, Forces - Land, Industry & Trends, Policy - Doctrine, Projections & Assessments, Specialty Aircraft, Transformation, USA, Warfare - Trends
M1A2 Abrams TUSK(click to view full) Maj. Gen. Roger Nadeau, who heads the US Army’s research and development command, told the U.S. Army Winter Show on February 15th that fighting in Iraq is shaping almost every Army spending decision. One of those lessons is...
