by Joe Katzman | Dec 8, 2005 | Delivery & Task Orders, Design Innovations, Field Innovations, Logistics Innovations, Project Successes, Raytheon, Support & Maintenance, Testing & Evaluation, USA
Launch. Raytheon Missile Systems Co. in Tucson, AZ received a $29.3 million firm-fixed priced delivery order against a previously awarded indefinite-delivery/ indefinite-quantity contract. This order provides for the full recertification of 150 All-Up-Round (AUR)...
by Joe Katzman | Dec 8, 2005 | Americas - Other, Contracts - Modifications, L3 Communications, Legal, Lobbying, Other Corporation, Partnerships & Consortia, Support & Maintenance, Transport & Utility
CC-130 Hercules(click to view full) DID has covered the extreme age of Canada’s CC-130 fleet, and the special challenges it posed while an emergency replacement competition got underway. L-3 SPAR Aerospace has been Canada’s sole C-130 Hercules Centre of...
by Joe Katzman | Dec 8, 2005 | Marketing & Advertising, USA
Defense firms interested in doing business with the Pentagon are limited by federal law in their ability to interact with procurement officials. But that isn’t stopping them from mass advertising. The Washington Post notes that companies may invest years of work...
by Joe Katzman | Dec 8, 2005 | Contracts - Awards, Northrop-Grumman, R&D - Contracted, Radars, USA
Uses ’em(click to identify) Northrop Grumman Space and Mission Systems in Redondo Beach, CA received a $6.9 million cost-plus-fixed-fee R&D contract. They are to develop and demonstrate a wafer-scale assembly (WSA) process for a batch fabricated SMART...
by Joe Katzman | Dec 7, 2005 | Airbus, Alliances, BAE, Boeing, Britain/U.K., China, Europe - Other, Fighters & Attack, Issues - International, Issues - Political, IT - Software & Integration, Legal, Lobbying, Lockheed Martin, Partnerships & Consortia, Policy - Procurement, Project Management, Rolls Royce, USA
“UK Warns USA Over ITAR Arms Restrictions” covered the ITAR technology waiver crisis in British-American defense relations, and noted that serious trouble was brewing. We also pointed to a series of pointed questions from the House of Commons Defence...
