EADS Resolves Rifts, Opens Alabama Facility to Help Focus on USA

by Joe Katzman | Jun 28, 2005 | Airbus, Boeing, Issues - Political, Lobbying, News, Partnerships & Consortia, Pre-RFP, Specialty Aircraft, USA

Airbus parent company EADS recently announced its choice of a site in Alabama to build a new refuelling plane for the US military, as part of its bid to win the USAF’s $23.5 billion contract to supply the next generation of air-air refuelling aircraft. EADS said...

$351.8 million for Survivable U.S. Nuclear Command Systems

by Joe Katzman | Jun 28, 2005 | C4ISR, Forces - Strategic, IT - Networks & Bandwidth, IT - Software & Integration, Other Corporation, USA

Rockwell Collins in Cedar Rapids, IA received a $351.8 firm fixed price, cost-plus award-fee, time and materials contract for the GEMS systems. GEMS will provide strategic posts and associated mobile support teams with survivable inter-site/ intra-site communications...

$6.3M more to Improve Navy Operations with Goldratt Approach

by Joe Katzman | Jun 28, 2005 | Contracts - Modifications, Corporate Innovations, Forces - Naval, Logistics Innovations, Policy - Procurement, Project Management, Project Methodologies, Project Successes, Specialty Aircraft, Support & Maintenance, Support Functions - Other

Small business qualifier The Avraham Y. Goldratt Institute (AGI) in New Haven, CT is being awarded a $6.3 million modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price, cost-reimbursable, indefinite-delivery/ indefinite-quantity contract (N00421-03-D-0066) to provide...

$50.8M for GMLRS Smart Rockets

by Joe Katzman | Jun 28, 2005 | Bombs - Smart, Britain/U.K., Contracts - Modifications, Europe - Other, France, Lockheed Martin, New Systems Tech, Rockets, Transformation, USA

GMLRS Rocket(click to enlarge) Lockheed Martin in Grand Prairie, TX received a $50.8 million modification to a firm-fixed-price contract for the Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System. Work on this contract will be performed in Grand Prairie, Texas (20%), and East...

$79.5M for more JLENS Aerostat Blimps

by Joe Katzman | Jun 28, 2005 | Air Reconnaissance, Blimps & LTA Craft, Contracts - Modifications, New Systems Tech, Raytheon, USA

JLENS Raytheon Co. in Bedford, MA received a $79.5 million modification to a cost-plus-incentive-fee contract for Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor Systems with Surveillance Radar. JLENS aerostats are used in Iraq and Afghanistan to...