by Joe Katzman | Dec 8, 2005 | Contracts - Awards, Northrop-Grumman, R&D - Contracted, Radars, USA
Uses ’em(click to identify) Northrop Grumman Space and Mission Systems in Redondo Beach, CA received a $6.9 million cost-plus-fixed-fee R&D contract. They are to develop and demonstrate a wafer-scale assembly (WSA) process for a batch fabricated SMART...
by Joe Katzman | Dec 7, 2005 | Airbus, Alliances, BAE, Boeing, Britain/U.K., China, Europe - Other, Fighters & Attack, Issues - International, Issues - Political, IT - Software & Integration, Legal, Lobbying, Lockheed Martin, Partnerships & Consortia, Policy - Procurement, Project Management, Rolls Royce, USA
“UK Warns USA Over ITAR Arms Restrictions” covered the ITAR technology waiver crisis in British-American defense relations, and noted that serious trouble was brewing. We also pointed to a series of pointed questions from the House of Commons Defence...
by Joe Katzman | Dec 7, 2005 | Airbus, China, Partnerships & Consortia, Satellites & Sensors, Transport & Utility
DID has just finished covering the agreement between EADS and China to jointly develop the EC175 helicopter, which could be worth EUR 10 billion over the program’s lifetime. Other programs underway and recent developments that are deepening what EADS described...
by Joe Katzman | Dec 7, 2005 | Airbus, China, Contracts - Awards, France, Helicopters & Rotary, Lobbying, New Systems Tech
EC175 concept(click to view full) EADS Eurocopter has signed a cooperation agreement covering the development of a new 16-seat EC175 helicopter, following a year of intense negotiations to detail and develop the general principles laid down in the Agreement signed in...
by Joe Katzman | Dec 7, 2005 | Bases & Infrastructure, Corporate Innovations, Design Innovations, Engineer Units, Forces - Air, Logistics Innovations, Policy - Procurement, Procurement Innovations, Project Successes, Support & Maintenance, USA
DID Editor, next door… The Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC) at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, AZ, also called “the Boneyard,” stores hundreds of older or retired aircraft outdoors in the dry Arizona sun (see Flash tour)....
