by Editorial Staff | Aug 20, 2012 | Asia - Central, Australia & S. Pacific, China, Daily Rapid Fire, Middle East - Other, Policy - Doctrine, UAVs
* Procurement data crunched by Bloomberg Government shows a surge of federal contract cancellations with 13,579 contracts worth $2.15B cancelled during the current – and almost finished – fiscal year. Some of these cancellations may be recompeted and are...
by Editorial Staff | Aug 20, 2012 | Contracts - Awards, Guns - Artillery & Mortars, Shells & Mortar Rounds, USA
Fuze family On August 15, 2012 the Office of the Product Director for Joint Products (PDJP) awarded a single Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) Firm Fixed Price (FFP) contract to Alliant Techsystems (ATK) to manufacture MK437 Multi Option Fuze for Navy...
by Editorial Staff | Aug 17, 2012 | Asia - Central, China, Daily Rapid Fire, DARPA, Europe - Other, Middle East - Other, Policy - Doctrine, UUVs & USVs
* Hotspots: yesterday 11 American and Afghan troops died in a UH-60 Black Hawk crash in Afghanistan; Pakistani Talibans killed 22 Shite civilians and attacked a Pakistani air force base; more than 100 people died in a wave of attacks in Iraq. * This comes as Syrian...
by Editorial Staff | Aug 16, 2012 | Alliances, Asia - Other, Budgets, Daily Rapid Fire, Fuel & Power, Japan, Official Reports, Polar Regions, Scandals & Investigations, Think Tanks, USA
* Back in March the US Army issued a Request for Information to perform a Service Life Extension Program (SLEP) and On-Condition Cyclic Maintenance (OCCM) on its fleet of 34 Landing Craft Utility 2000 (LCU 2000) vessels. They are following up with an RFI to replace...
by Editorial Staff | Aug 15, 2012 | Africa - Other, Alliances, Asia - Other, Britain/U.K., China, Daily Rapid Fire, Europe - Other, India, Japan, Middle East - Other, Russia, Scandals & Investigations, USA
* It is hard to be more terse than the UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO) in their one-sentence statement last week that they “decided to open a criminal investigation into allegations concerning GPT and aspects of the conduct of their business in the Kingdom of...
