by Joe Katzman | Mar 3, 2005 | Contracts - Awards, Land Equipment, Naval Equipment, Top Stories, USA
In a significant boost to its annual sales, small business category qualifier Carter Industries Inc. of Olive Hill, KY won a $52,953,000 firm fixed price indefinite quantity contract for Coveralls for the U.S. Army, Navy, and Air Force. This is a basic award contract...
by Joe Katzman | Mar 3, 2005 | Contracts - Awards, Land Equipment, Tanks & Mechanized, Top Stories, USA
Exploding fastballDay & Zimmerman Inc. of Texarkana, TX received a delivery order amount of $5.3M as part of a $26.5M firm-fixed-price contract for 445,288 M67 “Baseball” Grenades. The M67 is the standard infantry grenade of the U.S. military. Work...
by Joe Katzman | Mar 3, 2005 | Land Equipment, Logistics, R&D - Contracted, Top Stories, USA
Micro-distillerThe U.S. Army uses an estimated 20M gallons of water per year for field sanitation. In an effort to cut down on logistics stress and cost, the Greywater Remediation and Recycling project was started two years ago with the aim of reducing potable water...
by Joe Katzman | Mar 2, 2005 | C4ISR, Contracts - Awards, European Union (EU), Project Methodologies, Satellites & Sensors, Space, Top Stories
The European body tasked with selecting a consortium to run the Galileo satellite navigation project announced March 1 that it was unable to select a winning bidder to build its EUR 3.2B ($4.2B) Galileo satellite navigation system. It asked the Eurely and iNavSat...
by Joe Katzman | Mar 2, 2005 | Air Reconnaissance, Budgets, Events, Intelligence & PsyOps, New Systems Tech, Top Stories, UAVs, USA
MQ-1 Predator UAVThe MQ-1 Predator Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) received its certification of Initial Operating Capability on March 1. The declaration indicates the Predator has completed its testing and achieved predetermined capability and supportability...
