by Tig Tillinghast | Apr 12, 2005 | Industry & Trends, Legal, People
Michael Shanahan Sr. St. Louis’s hometown paper covers the stepping down of Engineered Support Systems’ CEO. Michael Shanahan, chairman and co-founder, stepped aside to become the non-executive chairman. He founded the company based on a $10 million...
by Tig Tillinghast | Apr 12, 2005 | Asia - Other, Conferences & Events, Fighters & Attack, Lockheed Martin, Other Corporation, Simulation & Training, Specialty Aircraft
Korea’s T-50 South Korea will make a showing for the first time at the Airport Expo Dubai, flying its T-50 “Golden Eagle” jet trainer/ light fighter. The Korean Aerospace Industries T-50 is designed specifically to train pilots for the F-16 and other...
by Joe Katzman | Apr 11, 2005 | Budgets, Contracts - Awards, Forces - Special Ops, Helicopters & Rotary, Lobbying, Scandals & Investigations, USA
MV-22 Osprey Bell Boeing Joint Program Office, Patuxent River, Md., is being awarded a $19.7 million modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price, fixed-price-incentive-fee contract (N00019-04-C-0012) for the procurement of one CV-22 aircraft flight simulator...
by Tig Tillinghast | Apr 11, 2005 | Land Equipment, Simulation & Training
Cubic gearThe U.S. Army Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training and Instrumentation awarded a five-year realistic combat training contract to Cubic Corporation to produce and field Initial-Homestation Instrumentation Training Systems (I-HITS) for U.S. Army,...
by Joe Katzman | Apr 11, 2005 | Budgets, IT - General, Lobbying, T&C - Microsoft, USA
They are coming A couple of weeks ago, DID noted that Microsoft may be making a push for a larger share of the defense market in the area of interoperability and collaboration. It would appear that those predictions are beginning to come true. Microsoft has just...