by Editorial Staff | Oct 31, 2011 | Australia & S. Pacific, BAE, Britain/U.K., Corporate Innovations, Daily Rapid Fire, Delivery & Task Orders, Forces - Special Ops, Industry & Trends, Lockheed Martin, Pre-RFP, R&D - Contracted, Raytheon, Robots, Space Warfare, Submarines
* Lockheed Martin and Raytheon plan to compete with incumbent BAE for the US Army’s Design, Development, Demonstration & Integration (D3I) space and missile defense program. The D3I RFP should be released soon, meanwhile the Concepts and Operations for...
by Editorial Staff | Oct 28, 2011 | Africa - Other, Britain/U.K., Budgets, Daily Rapid Fire, DARPA, France, Logistics Innovations, Mergers & Acquisitions, Missiles - Ballistic, People, Scandals & Investigations, UAVs, USA
* The Institute for the Study of War offers a good snapshot of the Libyan revolution and operations by the numbers. This week Libya was also on the mind of the UK’s House of Commons Defence Committee in a Q&A session with the Minister for the Armed Forces,...
by Editorial Staff | Oct 25, 2011 | Africa - Other, Americas - Other, Budgets, Daily Rapid Fire, Europe - Other, Fighters & Attack, Helicopters & Rotary, Issues - Political, Lobbying, RFPs, Scandals & Investigations, Soldier's Gear, Support & Maintenance, USA
* The Aerospace Industries Association (AIA) commissioned a study [PDF] to measure the likely impact on US employment, were automatic cuts to be triggered by a lack of consensus from the Super Committee. The conveniently scary result is a loss of 1 million jobs, incl....
by Editorial Staff | Oct 25, 2011 | Africa - Other, Budgets, Daily Rapid Fire, Helicopters & Rotary, Israel, IT - Cyber-Security, IT - General, Japan, Northrop-Grumman, Nuclear Weapons
* Lockheed Martin Information Systems & Global Solutions (IS&GS) announced a voluntary layoff program to reduce its headcount by 250 in February 2012, out of a 30,000 total worldwide. * Northrop Grumman to supply AQS-24A airborne mine-hunting system to Japan...
by Editorial Staff | Oct 24, 2011 | Asia - Other, Budgets, Coastal & Littoral, Daily Rapid Fire, France, Issues - Political, Japan, Middle East - Other, People, Procurement Innovations, Scandals & Investigations, T&C - CSC, USA
* After recent contradictory news reports, President Obama confirmed that all American troops would leave Iraq by 2012. The US’ request for troop immunity was the deal breaker with the Iraqi government. Thousands of private contractors will stay there though. *...
