by Editorial Staff | Mar 5, 2015 | Contracts - Awards, Daily Rapid Fire
Americas * The Wall Street Journal (paid) reported today that the impending choice for the future bomber will be constructed via a cost-plus deal, surprising most Pentagon watchers, as the DoD has been trying hard to move away from owning the cost overage liabilities....
by Editorial Staff | Mar 4, 2015 | Contracts - Awards, Daily Rapid Fire
Americas * The U.S. approved BAE’s Advanced Threat Infrared Countermeasures system for export. * The General Accountability Office released its study (PDF) of 15 ACAT II and ACAT III programs – those not reaching the lofty spending heights of the major...
by Editorial Staff | Mar 3, 2015 | Daily Rapid Fire
Americas * The USS Gabrielle Giffords (LCS 10) came off the stocks at Austal’s manufacturing facility in Mobile, Alabama. Austal will soon be pumping out two LCSs per year. The Giffords will be delivered in 2017 after further work and testing is done. * Bell...
by Editorial Staff | Mar 2, 2015 | Contracts - Awards, Daily Rapid Fire
Americas * The Air Force put 9 A-10 Warthogs into reserve, pushing the resources fielding those close air support fighters toward the F-35 program. * The Navy will buy three blocking boats (with an option for a fourth) built in 2008 and 2009 that have been used to...
by Editorial Staff | Feb 27, 2015 | Contracts - Awards, Daily Rapid Fire
Americas * China’s submarine fleet outnumbers that of the U.S., according to the U.S.’s deputy chief of Navy operations. Numbers aren’t everything, but Pacific based submariners will miss the days when all the Chinese boats could be shadowed. * The...
