by Tig Tillinghast | Oct 12, 2005 | Aircraft, Equipment - Other, Forces - Air, Helicopters & Rotary, Specialty Aircraft, Transport & Utility
MH-60K SpecOps Blackhawk(click to view full) Manchester, CT’s Purdy Corp. won a $17.4 million firm-fixed-price contract to make rotor hubs for Black Hawks. The manufacturing should extend through to October 2007. The Army Aviation and Missile Command at Redstone...
by Joe Katzman | Oct 12, 2005 | Air Reconnaissance, Americas - Other, Avionics, C4ISR, China, Contracts - Modifications, Electronics - General, Events, Intelligence & PsyOps, Lobbying, Lockheed Martin, New Systems Tech, Northrop-Grumman, Other Corporation, Project Management, Project Methodologies, R&D - Contracted, Sensors & Guidance, Signals Intercept, Cryptography, etc., Signals Radio & Wireless, Specialty Aircraft, USA
Bye, EP-3 Aries II(click to view full) The Aerial Common Sensor (ACS) is a joint US Army/ US Navy program that would replace three different reconnaissance planes used for signals interception (SIGINT), ground-looking SAR radars, and imagery intelligence (IMINT). The...
by Joe Katzman | Oct 12, 2005 | Boeing, DARPA, Design Innovations, Force Structure, Industry & Trends, Interoperability, IT - Software & Integration, New Systems Tech, Northrop-Grumman, Procurement Innovations, Project Failures, Project Successes, R&D - Contracted, Simulation & Training, Transformation, UAVs, University-related, USA
X-45 and X-47 J-UCAS(click to view full) The September 2005 issue of Avionics Magazine has an excellent and informative article covering the $4-5 billion X-45/47 J-UCAS program, and the evolution of American UAVs. DID has covered the overall direction of that...
by Joe Katzman | Oct 12, 2005 | Issues - Political, Policy - Personnel, Policy - Procurement, Soldier's Gear, USA, Warfare - Lessons
Scope & Goggles: $700Saving an eye: Priceless Under a law Congress passed in October 2004, the Defense Department had until Feb. 25, 2005 to develop regulations reimbursing US soldiers for mission-related equipment, which is limited to $1,100 per item. In...
by Joe Katzman | Oct 12, 2005 | Fighters & Attack, Heavy Bombers, Issues - Political, Lockheed Martin, Missiles - Precision Attack, New Systems Tech, Project Failures, Testing & Evaluation, USA
JASSM with F-16(click to view full) The US Defense Budget has gone to “reconciliation,” during which the US Congress and Senate attempt to take the different defense budgets passed in each body, and reconcile them into one official document for the...
