by Joe Katzman | Jun 24, 2005 | Europe - Other, Industry & Trends, Issues - Political, Official Reports
Norway’s Forsvarsdepartmentet published Relevant Force on June 17, 2005, which provides the political basis for the development of armed forces doctrines and the NAF’s operational and procurement activities: “The NAF is undergoing comprehensive...
by Joe Katzman | Jun 24, 2005 | C4ISR, Contracts - Awards, Design Innovations, New Systems Tech, Other Corporation, R&D - Contracted, Signals Radio & Wireless, Transformation, USA
Shared Spectrum Co. in McLean, VA received a $17 million cost-plus fixed-fee contract. The objective of this effort is to develop technology that will dynamically and efficiently allocate the communications radio frequency spectrum resource to a myriad of competing...
by Joe Katzman | Jun 24, 2005 | Contracts - Awards, Design Innovations, Electronics - General, New Systems Tech, R&D - Contracted, Robots, Transformation, USA
Gladiator recon robot DID covered the future of land robots recently, and noted the challenges inherent in autonomously-steered robots as envisoned in the Future Combat System. Well, Defense Technologies Inc. in Ranlo, NC received an $8.8 million ceiling-priced...
by Joe Katzman | Jun 24, 2005 | Americas - Other, Australia & S. Pacific, Contracts - Modifications, Electronics - General, Europe - Other, France, GPS Infrastructure, Other Corporation, USA
DAGR GPS Rockwell Collins Government Systems in Cedar Rapids, IA received a $45.3 million firm-fixed-price and cost-plus-fixed fee contract modification, exercising production options for the purchase of 19,659 Defense Advanced Global Positioning Satellite Receivers...
by Joe Katzman | Jun 24, 2005 | Contracts - Modifications, Other Corporation, UAVs, USA
MQ-1 Predator DID has covered the coming expansion of the USA’s Predator UAV fleet, planned targeting and surveillance upgrades, the drone’s evolving uses in the War on Terror and kills on senior al-Qaeda figures, even General Atomics’ unconventional...
