by Editorial Staff | Apr 2, 2012 | Australia & S. Pacific, Budgets, Canada, Daily Rapid Fire, France, India, Official Reports, Surface Ships - Other, USA
* The US Department of Defense released its latest Selected Acquisition Report (SAR – PDF). SARs track cost, schedule and performance changes for 83 Major Defense Acquisition Programs (MDAPs) amounting to a total of 1.6 trillion dollars in spending. 3 programs...
by Editorial Staff | Mar 29, 2012 | Budgets, Canada, China, Corporate Financials, Daily Rapid Fire, Israel, Middle East - Other, USA
* The US Navy’s latest 30-year shipbuilding plan [PDF] projects an average fleet size of 298 ships. An average of 8.9 new ships would be built each year for a total of 268 vessels. Spending is expected to peak to almost $20B/year in the early 20s and 30s because...
by Editorial Staff | Mar 27, 2012 | Daily Rapid Fire, European Union (EU), Leadership & People, Legal, Mergers & Acquisitions, Middle East - Other, Polar Regions, United Technologies, USA
* The Pentagon published the Contracting Officer’s Representative Handbook (DoD COR HDBK – PDF) to provide guidance on contract surveillance, ethics, the acquisition process, as well as contract structure, administration, and monitoring. It intends to...
by Editorial Staff | Mar 26, 2012 | Airbus, Americas - Other, Asia - Central, Budgets, Daily Rapid Fire, Germany, India, IT - Software & Integration, Legal, Lockheed Martin, Scandals & Investigations, USA
* More people are starting to think that sequestration of the US federal and defense budget may indeed well happen. * The US Army launched an application store [access restricted] that currently hosts a dozen training applications for smartphones and tablets. *...
by Editorial Staff | Mar 21, 2012 | Asia - Other, Budgets, Corporate Financials, Daily Rapid Fire, Fighters & Attack, France, Lockheed Martin, MBDA, Small Business, USA
* In advance of a more thorough review, the GAO(Government Accountability Office) published a report listing the various ways the JSF program is late and over budget: “Cost overruns on the first four annual procurement contracts total more than $1 billion and...
