by Editorial Staff | Apr 29, 2013 | Australia & S. Pacific, Britain/U.K., Budgets, China, Daily Rapid Fire, Europe - Other, France, India, Leadership & People, Middle East - Other, Official Reports, Policy - Doctrine, Think Tanks, UAVs
* The French government released a much-delayed White Paper [PDF, in French] to refresh France’s defense outlook. What happened since the previous Livre Blanc published in 2008? The global financial crisis and the accelerated degradation of public finances in...
by Editorial Staff | Apr 26, 2013 | China, Corporate Financials, Daily Rapid Fire, Finmeccanica, India, Raytheon, Scandals & Investigations, USA
* Raytheon’s Q1 2013 sales were down by 1% Y/Y to %5.88B. The backlog lost 2.2% from a year ago, to $33.5B. Missile systems performed best (+8%) while network centric systems decreased by 7%. * Overall US prime contractors had an OK quarter, and they now...
by Editorial Staff | Apr 25, 2013 | Asia - Other, China, Corporate Financials, Daily Rapid Fire, Leadership & People, Lobbying, Northrop-Grumman, USA
* A large bipartisan group of US lawmakers sent a letter [PDF] to the secretary of defense urging him to base sequestration-driven furlough decisions on merit, reports Government Executive. * Northrop Grumman’s Q1 2013 revenue was down 1.5% Y/Y to $6.1B, as...
by Editorial Staff | Apr 24, 2013 | Africa - Other, Boeing, China, Corporate Financials, Daily Rapid Fire, Europe - Other, France, India, Israel, Legal, Lockheed Martin, Nuclear Weapons, Russia, Scandals & Investigations, South Korea, USA
* BAE Systems and its suppliers are lobbying the US Congress to sustain Bradley orders from the US Army and keep their production line open. * Lockheed Martin’s Q1 2013 revenue was down 2% Y/Y to $11.1B, dragged down by the Aeronautics segment because of fewer...
by Editorial Staff | Apr 23, 2013 | Canada, Daily Rapid Fire, India, IT - Cyber-Security, Think Tanks
* Discussions about cyberwar doctrine often gets stuck on a difficulty to properly detect the origin of attacks (what’s called the attribution problem). That does not mean such intrusions cannot be tracked down at least by country. A report issued by a team led...
