by Editorial Staff | Jan 31, 2013 | Asia - Other, Boeing, Britain/U.K., Contracts - Awards, Corporate Financials, Daily Rapid Fire, Issues - Political, Leadership & People, UAVs, USA
* Alan Krueger, Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers (to the White House), on the reason why US GDP contracted by 0.1% in Q4 2012: “Federal defense purchases declined at an annual rate of 22.2 percent in the fourth quarter of 2012, the largest quarterly...
by Editorial Staff | Jan 30, 2013 | Africa - Other, Britain/U.K., Budgets, Contracts - Awards, Daily Rapid Fire, Fighters & Attack, Pre-RFP, Saudi Arabia, Scandals & Investigations, Singapore, Support & Maintenance, USA
* Non-profit Transparency International asserts [PDF] that a vast majority of countries exert little, if any, political oversight of defense policy or scrutiny of defense procurement. Only Australia and Germany are ranked as at “very low risk” of...
by Editorial Staff | Jan 29, 2013 | Africa - Other, Americas - Other, BAE, China, Contracts - Awards, Daily Rapid Fire, DARPA, Japan, Launch Vehicles, R&D - Contracted, UAVs, USA
* BAE will cut 300 jobs across 5 US states, two thirds of which at their Electronic Systems site in Nashua, NH, where 50 people were already laid off last year. * US AFRICOM is pondering establishing a base to operate UAVs out of a northwest African country such as...
by Editorial Staff | Jan 28, 2013 | Africa - Other, Airbus, Contracts - Awards, Daily Rapid Fire, France, People, Turkey, USA
* House of Representatives Budget Committee chairman Paul Ryan told NBC that he thinks the sequester is going to happen. Meet the Press | Reuters. * Senator Richard Durbin [D-IL] has been confirmed as the new chairman of the appropriations defense subcommittee. The...
by Editorial Staff | Jan 25, 2013 | Budgets, Contracts - Awards, Corporate Financials, Daily Rapid Fire, Leadership & People, Raytheon, USA
* Adm. Jonathan Greenert, The US Navy’s Chief of Naval Operations, is freezing civilian hiring – like the Air Force earlier announced – and cancelling a lot of maintenance work that was scheduled between April and September (i.e. the end of the...
