by Tig Tillinghast | Oct 5, 2005 | Air Reconnaissance, Aircraft, China, Israel, Scandals & Investigations, Specialty Aircraft
IL-76MF vs. C-130H Israel’s Globes reports that the Israeli police are investigating IAI executives for taking bribes to award exclusive sales territories. They allege that two procurement and marketing agents for IAI “heavily bribed” senior...
by Tig Tillinghast | Oct 5, 2005 | Aircraft, Contracts - Awards, Equipment - Other, Forces - Air, Helicopters & Rotary
Combined elevatorand stabilizer The Army awarded Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. $44 million in a firm-fixed-price contract to produce stabilator amplifiers. These are devices that increase the effects of aircraft stabilators; combined elevators and stabilizers fit onto the...
by Tig Tillinghast | Oct 5, 2005 | Asia - Other, China, Issues - International, Support Functions - Other
The Defense Security Cooperation Agency awarded the American Institute in Taiwan (based in Arlington, VA) a reimbursement of $3,310,524 for activities supporting military and civil personnel assigned to Taiwan, as well as four one-year options to continue the services...
by Tig Tillinghast | Jul 18, 2005 | Helicopters & Rotary, Policy - Procurement, Scandals & Investigations, South Korea
The Korea Times reports that state auditors caught the Defense Procurement Agency using certificates from civilian brokers that falsely claimed to have made millions of dollars worth of exports, allowing the DPA to go ahead with corresponding imports of goods such as...
by Tig Tillinghast | Jul 18, 2005 | Bases & Infrastructure, Contracts - Awards, Other Corporation, USA
Pensacola NAS OC(pre-Ivan) Hurricane Ivan was no gentlemen, yet it managed to both enter and exit the Pensacola Naval Facilities’ Officer’s Club. That’s why Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg Brown and Root was signed on last week for a $5.7 million task...
