by Editorial Staff | Feb 26, 2014 | Airbus, China, Corporate Financials, Daily Rapid Fire, Europe - Other, France, Legal, Russia, UAVs, USA
* Airbus announced sales up 5% to 59.3 billion euros ($81.5B) and orders worth 218.7 billion euros (about $300B) for 2013. Defense sales grew by 4% to 12.1 billion euros ($16.6B) thanks to initial A400M deliveries. Their defense backlog is down 4.6% to 47.3 billion...
by Editorial Staff | Feb 25, 2014 | Daily Rapid Fire, DARPA, Germany, Helicopters & Rotary, Leadership & People, Legal, Logistics Innovations, UAVs
* DARPA wants to make DoD procurement more secure with its Supply Chain Hardware Integrity for Electronics Defense (SHIELD) program. This would be done through small, very cheap components dedicated to authenticating the origin of their host electronic parts. The...
by Editorial Staff | Feb 24, 2014 | Africa - Other, Daily Rapid Fire, Europe - Other, European Union (EU), France, Germany, Helicopters & Rotary, Issues - International, Japan, Legal, Lockheed Martin, Logistics Innovations, Russia
* Last Friday DID pondered who would stand up to Vladimir Putin’s meddling in Ukraine, and the answer came quickly: Ukrainians. Since then, events moved at warp speed as the opposition stepped up the pressure with its newfound parliamentary majority. President...
by Editorial Staff | Feb 23, 2014 | Alliances, Asia - Other, Britain/U.K., China, Daily Rapid Fire, Europe - Other, European Union (EU), Germany, Helicopters & Rotary, Israel, Issues - International, Russia, Scandals & Investigations, USA
* The Economist and the Telegraph urge Western leaders to confront not just Ukraine’s government but also Vladimir Putin. After 3 months of unrest the country is now expected to have early elections (the official presidential statement in Ukrainian doesn’t...
by Editorial Staff | Feb 20, 2014 | Americas - Other, Asia - Central, Boeing, Daily Rapid Fire, Russia, Submarines, UAVs, USA
* CNA’s Center for Strategic Studies assessed [PDF] for the US Congress the state of the Afghan National Security Forces and recommends that the ANSF change their composition to provide more support, relative to over-abundant infantry units. The research...
