by Joe Katzman | Dec 14, 2005 | Avionics, Boeing, Contracts - Awards, Fighters & Attack, Singapore
DID has covered Singapore’s bellwether fighter competition over the last year, from the Eurofighter’s elimination, to Singapore’s conditional order of accompanying American weapons and services for the F-15. DID also covered the announcement that the...
by Joe Katzman | Dec 14, 2005 | Delivery & Task Orders, General Dynamics, Support & Maintenance, Tanks & Mechanized, USA
Bradley On the Line(click to view enlarged) Heavy mileage in a war zone has predictable effects. Things break, and maintenance piles up. This results in a number of very unglamorous but necessary contracts. Like the $8.8 million delivery order amount General Dynamics...
by Joe Katzman | Dec 14, 2005 | Contracts - Awards, Helicopters & Rotary, Other Corporation, Support & Maintenance, USA
CH-53E with slung load(click to view full) Breeze-Eastern in Union, NJ received a $9.9 million firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/ indefinite-quantity contract for repair, overhaul, and test and evaluation of various cargo hooks, winches, and other components used...
by Joe Katzman | Dec 14, 2005 | Alliances, BAE, Boeing, C4ISR, General Dynamics, Helicopters & Rotary, Israel, Issues - International, Issues - Political, L3 Communications, Legal, Lobbying, New Systems Tech, Other Corporation, Partnerships & Consortia, Radars, RFPs, Rumours, South Korea, Specialty Aircraft, USA
E-737 Wedgetail(click to view full) South Korea appears to be leaning toward some clear choices for its Korean Helicopter Program (KHP) utility helicopter competition, and its E-X airborne early warning (AEW) aircraft acquisition program. The projects have a combined...
by Joe Katzman | Dec 13, 2005 | Boeing, Budgets, Helicopters & Rotary, Issues - Political, New Systems Tech, Other Corporation, Rumours, USA
Ch-ch-ch-changes… Dan Dupont of Inside Defense (see their special Budget Blog) emails us to note that US Department of Defense is cutting $1.1 billion from the Marine Corps’ MV-22 Osprey program, and moving to implement the cut in the FY 2007 budget...
