by Tig Tillinghast | Oct 5, 2005 | Aircraft, Boeing, Budgets, Fighters & Attack, Forces - Air, Forces - Marines, Forces - Naval, Lockheed Martin, Northrop-Grumman
F/A-22 Raptor(click to enlarge) AFA reports on Gordon England’s upcoming new air power review that seems designed to provide the analysis needed to make further cuts in the F/A-22 and F-35 programs. England, who awaits confirmation to be deputy secretary of...
by Tig Tillinghast | Oct 5, 2005 | Air Reconnaissance, Aircraft, China, Israel, Scandals & Investigations, Specialty Aircraft
IL-76MF vs. C-130H Israel’s Globes reports that the Israeli police are investigating IAI executives for taking bribes to award exclusive sales territories. They allege that two procurement and marketing agents for IAI “heavily bribed” senior...
by Tig Tillinghast | Oct 5, 2005 | Aircraft, Contracts - Awards, Equipment - Other, Forces - Air, Helicopters & Rotary
Combined elevatorand stabilizer The Army awarded Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. $44 million in a firm-fixed-price contract to produce stabilator amplifiers. These are devices that increase the effects of aircraft stabilators; combined elevators and stabilizers fit onto the...
by Tig Tillinghast | Oct 5, 2005 | Asia - Other, China, Issues - International, Support Functions - Other
The Defense Security Cooperation Agency awarded the American Institute in Taiwan (based in Arlington, VA) a reimbursement of $3,310,524 for activities supporting military and civil personnel assigned to Taiwan, as well as four one-year options to continue the services...
by Joe Katzman | Oct 4, 2005 | Alliances, Britain/U.K., Industry & Trends, Issues - International, Issues - Political, Lobbying, Official Reports, People, Policy - Procurement, Procurement Innovations, Transformation
UK MoD Recently, DID has covered Britain’s defence transformation efforts and its concerns in Britain that recent defence procurement approaches were locking them into an anti-US, EU-centric model that would have major defence and foreign policy implications,...
