by Editorial Staff | Feb 12, 2015 | Contracts - Awards, Daily Rapid Fire
Americas * As expected, Boeing announced the details of its impending reorganization. A new group called BDS Development will take over management of six major programs, including the KC-46 tanker. * The coming Air Force decision regarding the long-range strike bomber...
by Editorial Staff | Feb 11, 2015 | Daily Rapid Fire
The deadline for USTACOM’s 4th and final iteration of its JLTV RFP for Low Rate Initial Production and Full Rate Production has passed, and all three prime contractors have submitted their proposals. The Firm Fixed Price contract should last 3 years of LRIP...
by Editorial Staff | Feb 11, 2015 | Australia & S. Pacific, Bases & Infrastructure, Indonesia, Japan, Logistics, People, Rumours, Scandals & Investigations, Singapore, Surface Ships - Combat, Surface Ships - Other
The Secretary of the Navy issued letters of censure to three rear admirals – all of whom are retiring – for involvement in the “Fat Leonard” scandal that involved officers steering ships to particular port facilities in return for gifts and...
by Editorial Staff | Feb 10, 2015 | Daily Rapid Fire
Typical of the stop-start volatility in an uncertain budget time that Ashton Carter referenced in his addresses to Congress, the Army is moving 180 degrees from its original position that the M1 tank fab lines should be cut from the budget. Congress objected, and the...
by Editorial Staff | Feb 9, 2015 | Contracts - Awards, Daily Rapid Fire
Perhaps learning from the expensive lessons of the present, designers of the future fighter F/A-XX may have reason to make stealth a lower priority. And, interestingly, the Chief of Naval Operations appears to agree. The limits imposed by stealth, coupled with extra...
