by Joe Katzman | Aug 15, 2005 | Contracts - Awards, Design Innovations, Forces - Special Ops, Guns - Personal Weapons, Materials Innovations, Other Corporation, USA
5.56mm Mk46 MOD0(click to view full) FN Manufacturing, LLC in Columbia, SC received a potential $9.8 million firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/ indefinite-quantity contract, to provide a maximum quantity 1,100 (ea) MK46 MOD 0 Light Machine Guns (LMG) and auxiliary...
by Joe Katzman | Aug 15, 2005 | Ammunition, Contracts - Modifications, Corporate Innovations, Delivery & Task Orders, Industry & Trends, Other Corporation, USA
DID has covered the U.S. military’s small caliber ammunition shortages before, and explained the manufacturing, outsourcing, and modernization efforts under way to address it. As a follow-up, Alliant Techsystems subsidiaries have recently received $38.1 million...
by Joe Katzman | Aug 15, 2005 | Bases & Infrastructure, Contracts - Awards, Industry & Trends, Small Business, USA
Small business qualifier CCI in Anchorage, AK received a not to exceed $30 million firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery job order contract for construction, alteration, repair and short-term facilities maintenance services at naval installations in the Northern New...
by Joe Katzman | Aug 12, 2005 | Air Reconnaissance, Australia & S. Pacific, Contracts - Awards, Design Innovations, Events, Issues - Political, Lobbying, New Systems Tech, Official Reports, Other Corporation, Policy - Procurement, Pre-RFP, Surface Ships - Combat
HMAS Manoora LPA (click to view full) The Australian government has approved the first stage of a $2 billion LHD Amphibious Ships project that will provide the Royal Australian Navy with two new multi-purpose ships that would have air support, amphibious assault,...
by Joe Katzman | Aug 12, 2005 | Asia - Central, Boeing, Britain/U.K., Field Reports, Fighters & Attack
GR7 Harrier II(click to view full) In March 2005, DID covered the evolution of the USMC’s AV-8B Harrier II aircraft, and their growing success in the Iraqi theater of war as a close air support platform for urban warfighting. Now the UK’s Ministry of...
