by Editorial Staff | Nov 26, 2013 | Africa - Other, Airbus, Brazil, China, Daily Rapid Fire, General Atomics, Germany, Industry & Trends, Middle East - Other, Scandals & Investigations, Simulation & Training, UAVs, USA
EADS: Bavarian Consolidation? * A month ago EADS CEO Tom Enders started talking about coming redundancies. More recent reports in the German press have been mentioning up to 8,000 potential job cuts next year, as the group rebrands itself as Airbus and streamlines its...
by Editorial Staff | Nov 25, 2013 | Britain/U.K., China, Daily Rapid Fire, Israel, Issues - International, IT - Cyber-Security, Japan, Legal, Logistics, Polar Regions, Policy - Doctrine, Pre-RFP, Russia, South Korea, Turkey, USA
No Easy Exit from Afghanistan * Afghanistan’s Loya Jirga council advised President Hamid Karzai to stop delaying the signature of a pending security agreement with the US. Karzai does not seem inclined to relent, despite threats from the Americans that they...
by Editorial Staff | Nov 22, 2013 | Americas - Other, Bases & Infrastructure, Brazil, China, Contracts - Awards, Corporate Financials, Daily Rapid Fire, Finmeccanica, France, Germany, Helicopters & Rotary, India, Industry & Trends, Issues - International, IT - Cyber-Security, Scandals & Investigations, Tanks & Mechanized, UAVs
Unstaffed DoD * Arnold Punaro, a retired USMC Maj. General and the National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA)’s new chairman, made a list of vacant senior civilian positions at the Department of Defense, and it’s a pretty long one. Either these roles...
by Editorial Staff | Nov 21, 2013 | Asia - Central, Asia - Other, Britain/U.K., China, Daily Rapid Fire, Official Reports, Policy - Doctrine, Scandals & Investigations, Think Tanks, United Arab Emirates (UAE), USA
Flip sides of the COIN * Just hours after US Secretary of State John Kerry had announced a deal had been reached, Afghan President Hamid Karzai postponed the signing of a security agreement with the US until after next April’s elections. American officials were...
by Editorial Staff | Nov 20, 2013 | Asia - Other, Boeing, Daily Rapid Fire, Germany, Heavy Bombers, Northrop-Grumman, Pre-RFP, Scandals & Investigations, United Arab Emirates (UAE), USA
Contractors Face New Regulatory Obligations * Effective since last Monday, a Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) amendment applies to all new contracts that use or generate technical information and spells out new responsibilies for contractors...
