by Joe Katzman | Nov 21, 2005 | Boeing, Contracts - Awards, Engines - Aircraft, Europe - Other, Fighters & Attack, Materials Innovations, New Systems Tech, Other Corporation, Partnerships & Consortia, Project Successes, R&D - Private, Specialty Aircraft
F135 Engine Test(click to view full) On November 17, 2006, Stork Aerospace N.V. of the Netherlands and U.S. firm Pratt & Whitney announced an agreement for the production development of components for the new P&W F135 jet engine, one of the two...
by Joe Katzman | Nov 21, 2005 | Contracts - Modifications, Engines - Aircraft, Europe - Other, Fighters & Attack, Germany, Helicopters & Rotary, Other Corporation, Procurement Innovations, Public Partnering, Support & Maintenance
F-4F: Still Flying(click to view full) MTU Aero Engines has signed a contract with the German Federal Office of Defense Technology and Procurement (Bundesamt fur Wehrtechnik und Beschaffung or BWB), expanding the existing industry-military Cooperative Model of engine...
by Joe Katzman | Nov 21, 2005 | Corporate Innovations, IT - General, USA
DID has recently covered the genesis and purpose of The Pentagon’s new Business Transformation Agency, and its first major appointment. Contractors and others who wish to learn more about the BTA can now do so at the agency’s web site. The site offers a...
by Joe Katzman | Nov 21, 2005 | Contracts - Awards, Logistics, Other Corporation, USA
Genco Infrastructure Solutions Inc. in Pittsburgh, PA won a maximum $40.6 million firm-fixed-price, time and materials, hybrid-type contract for material distribution services at the Defense Logistics Agency’s Defense Distribution Center (DDC) in San Diego, CA....
by Joe Katzman | Nov 18, 2005 | Alliances, C4ISR, Events, General Dynamics, Intelligence & PsyOps, Interoperability, Lobbying, Lockheed Martin, New Systems Tech, Northrop-Grumman, Other Corporation, Policy - Procurement, Project Management, Project Methodologies, Radars, Signals Intercept, Cryptography, etc., Specialty Aircraft, USA
UK’s ASTOR Sentinel R1(click to view full) In a previous article, DID dissected “The Kerfuffle Around the Shuffle.” We covered the 3 different US reconnaissance aircraft that the $8 billion Aerial Common Sensor (ACS) spy plane program would replace,...