by Editorial Staff | Aug 1, 2014 | Daily Rapid Fire, Issues - Political, Lobbying, Logistics, Official Reports, Pre-RFP, USA
* The Congress-mandated National Defense Panel issued a report [PDF] criticizing the Pentagon’s 2014 Quadrennial Defense Review for being a strategy driven by budget constraints, a conclusion that could be reached after 5 minutes of scanning through the QDR....
by Editorial Staff | Jul 31, 2014 | BAE, Canada, China, Corporate Financials, Daily Rapid Fire, Issues - Political, Japan, Legal, Medical, Official Reports, Pre-RFP, Rolls Royce, Scandals & Investigations, UAVs, USA
* US Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James is worried about the service’s current readiness because of budgetary squabbling, but that didn’t stop her from releasing a lofty long-term strategy document [PDF] where the word “global” appears no...
by Editorial Staff | Jul 30, 2014 | Airbus, Australia & S. Pacific, Britain/U.K., China, Corporate Financials, Daily Rapid Fire, Germany, Iraq, Issues - Political, Medical, USA
* Iraq’s government would like to procure more Hellfire missiles [US DSCA] as well as helicopter sustainment services from the US. * In the meantime ISIS is busy establishing Shari’a law, and a modicum of governmental services, in the northern city of...
by Editorial Staff | Jul 29, 2014 | Africa - Other, Asia - Central, China, Daily Rapid Fire, Helicopters & Rotary, India, Israel, IT - Cyber-Security, Lockheed Martin, Russia, UAVs, USA
* The US Government Accountability Office (GAO) published a report stating that about 83,000 DOD employees and contractors who held or were eligible for security clearances (out of a total of about 5.1 million) had unpaid federal tax debt totaling more than $730M as...
by Editorial Staff | Jul 28, 2014 | Africa - Other, Boeing, China, Daily Rapid Fire, Germany, India, Israel, Japan, Middle East - Other, South Korea, USA
* After a brief lull fighting continued in Gaza: USA Today | WaPo. * The US evacuated its embassy in Tripoli as fighting in Libya’s capital has been worsening. DoD | Daily Beast | NYT. * Richard N. Haass, President of the Council on Foreign Relations, compares...