by Joe Katzman | Nov 14, 2005 | BAE, Europe - Other, Other Corporation, RFPs, Tanks & Mechanized, Testing & Evaluation
OT-64C in Kosovo(click to view full) On September 23, 2005, DID reported on the Czech government’s tender to procure 199-234 modern 8×8 wheeled armored vehicles to replace its outdated, Soviet-era, BTR-60 derivative OT-64 SKOT armored personnel carriers...
by Joe Katzman | Nov 14, 2005 | ABM, Contracts - Modifications, New Systems Tech, Support Functions - Other, T&C - CSC, Testing & Evaluation, USA
Computer Sciences Corp. Federal Sector in Falls Church, VA received a cost-plus-award-fee contract modification: a non-competitive $243.1 million extension to the existing contract for scientific, engineering and technical assistance support to the Ground-based...
by Joe Katzman | Nov 14, 2005 | Europe - Other, Events, Issues - International, Legal, Middle East - Other, Other Corporation, Project Successes, Scandals & Investigations, Tanks & Mechanized, USA
Tanks Delivered: 77Repo men needed: 0Safer elections: Priceless Last week, we ran a story about 77 refurbished Hungarian T-72 tanks, headed for the Middle East and slated to form the core of Iraq’s first reconstituted armored division. They were scheduled to...
by Joe Katzman | Nov 14, 2005 | DARPA, Delivery & Task Orders, Design Innovations, Intelligence & PsyOps, IT - Software & Integration, New Systems Tech, Other Corporation, R&D - Contracted, Support Functions - Other, T&C - IBM, USA
The Global Autonomous Language Exploitation (GALE) program aims to develop computer software technologies that can absorb, analyze and interpret huge volumes of speech and text in multiple languages. The idea is that automatic processing “engines” will...
by Joe Katzman | Nov 14, 2005 | Bases & Infrastructure, Contracts - Modifications, Other Corporation, USA
Hensel Phelps Construction Co. in Chantilly, VA received an $182.9 million modification to a fixed-price-incentive with award-fee contract for wedge four design and construction at The Pentagon. Work will be performed in Arlington, VA and is expected to be complete by...