by Joe Katzman | Nov 11, 2005 | Contracts - Awards, Europe - Other, Germany, Issues - International, Issues - Political, Other Corporation, Support & Maintenance, Tanks & Mechanized, Turkey
Leopard 2(click to view full) Reuters in Berlin reports that Germany has finalized a long-delayed deal to sell 298 surplus Leopard 2 main battle tanks to Turkey. German defense group Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW) will now modernize the tanks and prepare them for sale....
by Joe Katzman | Nov 11, 2005 | Corporate Innovations, Intelligence & PsyOps, Interoperability, Leadership & People, Transformation, USA
When one compares the recent US “National Intelligence Strategy” with, say, the Defense Logistics Agency’s FY 2006 Transformation Roadmap, the intelligence document suffers greatly by comparison. With that said, some of the subsidiary strategy papers...
by Joe Katzman | Nov 11, 2005 | Asia - Other, Britain/U.K., Contracts - Awards, Europe - Other, Issues - International, IT - General, Northrop-Grumman, Other Corporation, Support Functions - Other, T&C - CSC, USA, WMD Defenses, WMD Detection, WMD Proliferation
Northrop Grumman IT has been awarded a indefinite-delivery/ indefinite-quantity contract with a potential value of approximately $375 million over four years, in order to provide a range of scientific and technical advisory and assistance services to the Defense...
by Joe Katzman | Nov 10, 2005 | Bases & Infrastructure, Contracts - Awards, Engineer Units, Other Corporation, Procurement Innovations, Public Partnering, Security Contractor, Support Functions - Other, USA
DID has covered special contracts before, wherein the US government can issue “extreme situations, massive response” requests and demand to have them met, quickly, by private sector entities. Since that kind of capability used to require large numbers of...
by Joe Katzman | Nov 10, 2005 | Asia - Central, Britain/U.K., Europe - Other, Field Innovations, Field Reports, Leadership & People, New Systems Tech, Other Corporation, Project Successes, R&D - Contracted, Simulation & Training, Testing & Evaluation, Training & Exercises, Transformation, USA, Warfare - Trends
After: DIVE2(click to view full) These days, soldiers deployed abroad consider video games almost a necessity of life. In the Royal Gloucestershire Berkshire and Wiltshire Light Infantry (RGBW LI) that was deployed to Afghanistan earlier this year, so do their...