by Editorial Staff | Jan 14, 2015 | Contracts - Awards, Daily Rapid Fire
* Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel’s likely last procurement emphasis is his call for a replacement of current strategic bomber capacity, which currently consists of 159 airframes between the Air Force’s B-52s, B-Lancers and B-2s. U.S. * Contractors such...
by Editorial Staff | Jan 13, 2015 | Daily Rapid Fire
* Repurposed military hardware is already coming under significant negative scrutiny after civil rights issues have become a dominant domestic topic, and midwestern police departments making what appears to be unneeded shows of force. Topping that off are reports that...
by Editorial Staff | Jan 12, 2015 | Australia & S. Pacific, C4ISR, China, Contracts - Awards, Daily Rapid Fire, Fighters & Attack, General Dynamics, Helicopters & Rotary, IAI, Raytheon, RFPs, Signals Radio & Wireless, Soldier's Gear, South Korea
* The state-by-state politics of basing are expected to flare up, not just with the f-35 basing displacement decisions, but also with the seemingly vulnerable decision by the military to do away with National Guard Blackhawk assets. Because National Guard bases are...
by Editorial Staff | Jan 12, 2015 | Contracts - Awards, DARPA, Design Innovations, Engines, Expeditionary Warfare, Field Innovations, Forces - Land, Forces - Marines, Forces - Special Ops, Logistics Innovations, Other Equipment - Land, R&D - Contracted, Small Business, Trucks & Transport
Silent Hawk Prototype(click to view full) Special Forces has had an abiding interest in silenced motorcycles as stealthy and quick insertion/extraction vehicles – and, not just from having viewed Chuck Norris’s 1986 cheesy Delta Force movie, where his...
by Editorial Staff | Jan 9, 2015 | Budgets, Daily Rapid Fire, Expeditionary Warfare, Iraq, Middle East & Africa, USA
* The Department of Defense is set to request 20 percent less in “war funding” for the coming fiscal year, a reduction of about $13 billion. The fact that this request has not declined somewhat proportionally to the size of the reduced mission may indicate...
