by Editorial Staff | Jan 20, 2015 | Contracts - Awards, Daily Rapid Fire
* Russian development of a new cruise missile and submarine forays into NATO waters have elicited complaints from Washington Russia has violated a key arms control agreement (the INF Treaty), and could cause the U.S. to redeploy cruise missiles in Europe. Russia has...
by Editorial Staff | Jan 19, 2015 | Boeing, Budgets, Canada, Coastal & Littoral, Contracts - Awards, Daily Rapid Fire, Fighters & Attack, Iraq, Issues - International, Issues - Political, Lobbying, Lockheed Martin, Missiles - Surface-Air, Russia, Sensors & Guidance, UAVs, USA
* The Commander of U.S. Army forces in Europe, Lt Gen Ben Hodges, is quoted as revealing the analysis that Russia currently can’t threaten more than one Ukraine-level conflict at once without significant pre-mobilization that would warn a victim country and...
by Editorial Staff | Jan 16, 2015 | Air Reconnaissance, Budgets, Daily Rapid Fire, Israel, Lockheed Martin, Northrop-Grumman, RAFAEL, Raytheon, Satellites & Sensors, Space, Space Warfare, Surface Ships - Combat, Surface Ships - Other
* Having vacillated back and forth, the Pentagon will reportedly now ask for both its cake and to eat it too in the 2016 budget, reversing the decision to mothball the U-2 spy plane program, but also to start research and design work (about $150 million over three...
by Editorial Staff | Jan 15, 2015 | Boeing, Daily Rapid Fire, Forces - Air, Forces - Naval, General Dynamics, Heavy Bombers, IT - Cyber-Security, Japan, Missiles - Anti-Ship, Nuclear Weapons, Raytheon, USA
* The Air Force is trying to get ahead of cost issues by announcing an effort to introduce reforms to speed up procurement as well as to allow RFP responders to suggest alternative requirements where cost savings could be recognized. U.S. * Predictably, commentators...
by Editorial Staff | Jan 15, 2015 | C4ISR, Coastal & Littoral, Contracts - Awards, Electronics - General, Forces - Naval, Oceans - International, Protective Systems - Naval, Radars, Raytheon, Sensors & Guidance, Signals Radio & Wireless, Surface Ships - Combat, USA
Back in 2008, the Navy signaled its desire to its desire to incorporate the “far term sea-based terminal defense” capacity of the SM-6 into its Aegis system, with one hurdle being some ships’ radars being capable of handling the sensor data...
