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...
by Joe Katzman | Jul 15, 2005 | Contracts - Awards, IT - Cyber-Security, Military Overall, Other Corporation, Policy - Personnel, Security & Secrecy, Signals Intercept, Cryptography, etc., T&C - SAIC, USA
Science Applications International Corp. in San Diego, CA is partnering with Computer Associates International Inc. in Islandia, NY on a $6.9 million contract that will install ca’s eTrust PestPatrol Anti-Spyware software on 4 million computers used by Defense...
by Joe Katzman | Jul 15, 2005 | C4ISR, Contracts - Modifications, Design Innovations, IT - Networks & Bandwidth, New Systems Tech, Northrop-Grumman, R&D - Contracted, Raytheon, Satellites & Sensors, Signals Radio & Wireless, Transformation, USA
Laser Comsat The Air Force Research Laboratory at Kirtland, Air Force Base, NM recently issued a pair of contract modifications to Raytheon and Northrop-Grumman, in order to develop all-electronic steering systems for laser access communication beams. Steering extends...
by Joe Katzman | Jul 15, 2005 | Budgets, C4ISR, Design Innovations, Industry & Trends, New Systems Tech, Northrop-Grumman, Project Successes, Public Partnering, R&D - Contracted, Satellites & Sensors, USA
Microwave and millimeter wave units for defense satellites have been extremely expensive in the past – sometimes totaling more than 20% of the cost of a satellite. Typical applications use these units in high quantities and they are quite expensive individually...
