by Joe Katzman | Feb 6, 2006 | Budgets, Force Structure, Issues - Political, Transformation, USA
eDefense Online covers a number of highlights from the USA’s FY 2006 defense appropriations law H.R. 2863.ENR, now Public Law #109-148. eDefense Online writes: “In the end, the US House of Representative and US Senate agreed to authorize $491.5 billion in...
by Joe Katzman | Feb 6, 2006 | Boeing, Corporate Financials, General Dynamics, Lockheed Martin, Northrop-Grumman, Raytheon
Over the past couple of weeks, the major American defense manufacturers have announced their Q4 2005 and FY 2005 financial results. Below, DID has noted some quick year-end figures for each. These figures are for total operations, including defense and civilian...
by Joe Katzman | Feb 6, 2006 | Boeing, C4ISR, Industry & Trends, Interoperability, New Systems Tech, Northrop-Grumman, Other Corporation, Raytheon, Signals Intercept, Cryptography, etc., Specialty Aircraft, UAVs
737 SIGINT Concept(click to view full) DID has covered the Aerial Common Sensor spy-plane program to replace the USAF’s RC-12 Guardrails and RC-7 Crazy Hawks, and the Navy’s EP-3 Aries II. From explaining the program and its forced change of aircraft, to...
by Joe Katzman | Feb 6, 2006 | DID site
This weekend, DID got a note from reader J.A., who informed us that the site’s auto-refresh every 6 minutes or so was driving him batty. He hated it. We hadn’t really thought about that; it’s something built into the site’s original software...
by Joe Katzman | Feb 3, 2006 | Boeing, Finmeccanica, Forces - Special Ops, Helicopters & Rotary, Lockheed Martin, Other Corporation, Partnerships & Consortia, RFPs, Simulation & Training, Support Functions - Other, United Technologies, USA
H-92 does SAR(click to view full) As DID noted in our October 24, 2005 article “V-22 Bows out of CSAR-X/PRV Competition,” all of the key bidders except Sikorsky had formally announced their helicopter platforms for the $8-10 billion, 141-helicopter combat...
