by Joe Katzman | Feb 24, 2005 | Design Innovations, Field Innovations, Field Reports, Forces - Special Ops, Intelligence & PsyOps, Middle East - Other, New Systems Tech, Other Corporation, Procurement Innovations, Top Stories, Transformation, UAVs, USA, Warfare - Lessons
Raven in the field The Army News Service reports that the tiny Raven drone’s aerial reconnaissance value has quickly earned the respect of battalion commanders in Iraq, filling a niche at the battalion level when larger UAVs are unavailable. Weighing in at 4.5...
by Joe Katzman | Feb 24, 2005 | Budgets, R&D - Contracted, Top Stories, USA
The U.S. Defense Department’s fiscal year 2006 research and development (R&D) budget request cuts off funding for congressional earmarks, which totaled $1 billion in FY ’05. DOD is requesting more than $70 billion for R&D in FY ’06, with...
by Joe Katzman | Feb 24, 2005 | Boeing, Forces - Special Ops, Helicopters & Rotary, New Systems Tech, UAVs, USA
The U.S. Army may have lost interest in the UCAR helicopter drone program, but research continues on a smaller scale. Boeing will soon conduct a $1.6 million joint program with the U.S. Army’s Aviation Applied Technology Directorate (AATD) designed to test a...
by Joe Katzman | Feb 23, 2005 | Bases & Infrastructure, Chemicals & HAZMAT, Contracts - Awards, Design Innovations, Medical, Mergers & Acquisitions, New Systems Tech, Procurement Innovations, Public Partnering, Specialty Aircraft, USA
SCIT System Earth Tech, Long Beach, CA is being awarded a $4 billion indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract to provide for: work plan implementation, construction and engineering activities; repair; work to meet IAW technical and regulatory requirements; and...
by Joe Katzman | Feb 23, 2005 | ABM, Contracts - Awards, Lockheed Martin, Top Stories, USA
Lockheed-Martin photo According to rumours printed in Space Daily Business News, a Lockheed Martin Corp. official claims the firm has won a $532 million contract to provide upgraded PAC-3 Patriot missile interceptors to the U.S. Army, the Netherlands, and Japan.
