by Joe Katzman | Nov 14, 2005 | Contracts - Awards, Other Corporation, Trucks & Transport, USA
Yeeee-haaaaaa! H. Koch & Sons Co. in Anaheim, CA received a $20 million firm-fixed-price contract for the improved Humvee vehicle restraint systems. H. Koch was a luggage company in the early 1900s, but now specializes in high performance aircrew restraints for...
by Joe Katzman | Nov 11, 2005 | Memoriam
On the 11th hour, of the 11th day, of the 11th month, the guns ceased. Today, the British Commonwealth countries remember those who came before, and those who came after, and all who have given in their nation’s service. Americans know this day as...
by Joe Katzman | Nov 11, 2005 | Budgets, Coastal & Littoral, Force Structure, Issues - Political, Lobbying, New Systems Tech, Project Methodologies, Surface Ships - Combat, Transformation, USA
DD (X) Destroyer The USA’s DD (X) future destroyer program faces political challenges. Rep. Roscoe Bartlett [R-MA, Chair of the House Projection Forces Subcommittee] has openly noted that “we’re now down to a little more than a technology...
by Joe Katzman | Nov 11, 2005 | Contracts - Awards, Europe - Other, Germany, Issues - International, Issues - Political, Other Corporation, Support & Maintenance, Tanks & Mechanized, Turkey
Leopard 2(click to view full) Reuters in Berlin reports that Germany has finalized a long-delayed deal to sell 298 surplus Leopard 2 main battle tanks to Turkey. German defense group Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW) will now modernize the tanks and prepare them for sale....
by Joe Katzman | Nov 11, 2005 | Corporate Innovations, Intelligence & PsyOps, Interoperability, Leadership & People, Transformation, USA
When one compares the recent US “National Intelligence Strategy” with, say, the Defense Logistics Agency’s FY 2006 Transformation Roadmap, the intelligence document suffers greatly by comparison. With that said, some of the subsidiary strategy papers...
