by Joe Katzman | May 16, 2005 | Corporate Financials, Thales
Thales SA said sales rose to EUR 2.009 billion in Q1 2005 from EUR 1.941 billion posted in the same period last year. Its 5.4% organic growth is due mainly to a sharp jump in revenues from its Naval division. The full release may be found here, and AFX News excerpts...
by Joe Katzman | May 16, 2005 | Contracts - Modifications, Other Corporation, Training & Exercises, UAVs, USA
BQM-167A AFSAT Launch Composite Engineering in Sacramento, CA received a $19.8 million firm-fixed-price contract modification to provide for Air Force Subscale Aerial Target, Exercise of Low Rate Initial Production Option for Lot 2 (quantity of 36 AFSATs) and the...
by Joe Katzman | May 16, 2005 | Asia - Other, Bases & Infrastructure, Britain/U.K., Contracts - Awards, Environmental, Medical, Other Corporation
Joint venture San Juan Construction Inc./John Laing International Ltd. in Montrose, CO is being awarded an $18.2 million firm-fixed-price contract for construction of a solid waste management facility and dental clinic replacement at Diego Garcia. Work will be...
by Joe Katzman | May 16, 2005 | Asia - Other, Contracts - Awards, France, Japan, Middle East - Other, Missiles - Surface-Air, Protective Systems - Naval, Raytheon, Support & Maintenance
Standard Missile launch Raytheon Co. in Tucson, AZ is being awarded an $11.2 million firm-fixed-price contract to provide Full Service Support (FSS) for the Standard Missile-1 (SM-1) program of U.S. Allied Nations. The SM-1 was phased out of the U.S. Navy in 2003; it...
by Joe Katzman | May 13, 2005 | Bases & Infrastructure, Budgets, Events, Force Structure, Issues - Political, USA
The Official BRAC List has been released and Jeff Quinton is putting it into HTML form, instead of PDF/Acrobat. Under the Base Realignment And Closure (BRAC) process, the Secretary of Defense makes recommendations to a commission, nominated by the President, confirmed...