by Joe Katzman | Feb 27, 2006 | Alliances, Britain/U.K., Budgets, Engines - Aircraft, Fighters & Attack, New Systems Tech, Other Corporation, Partnerships & Consortia, Rolls Royce, Testing & Evaluation, United Technologies, USA
F-35B: lift fan open(click to view full) In January 2006 changes in the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program were proposed in the Pentagon’s FY 2007 budget request. One of those cuts was to the F-35’s engine choice program when the contenders were issued...
by Joe Katzman | Feb 27, 2006 | Ammunition, Canada, General Dynamics, Mergers & Acquisitions, Other Corporation, USA
In September 2005 General Dynamics had just become a second-source prime for small-caliber ammunition to the US military, as a result of the Army’s small-caliber ammunition shortage. This broke Alliance Techsystems’ sole lock on the prime supplier position...
by Joe Katzman | Feb 27, 2006 | Conferences & Events, Missiles - Precision Attack, Procurement Innovations, Project Successes, Raytheon, USA
JSOW-A: Not confetti…(click to view larger) The USA’s AGM-154 Joint Stand-Off Weapon (JSOW) precision glide-bomb has proven to be popular with the US DoD as well as foreign buyers. Indeed, the program has gone so well that the U.S. Department of Defense...
by Joe Katzman | Feb 27, 2006 | Contracts - Modifications, Engines - Aircraft, Forces - Marines, Materials Innovations, Other Corporation, USA
CH-46E Sea Knight General Electric Aircraft Engines in Lynn, MA received a $26.4 million modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed-priced contract (N00019-02-C-3021) to purchase 60 T58 engine reliability improvement program (ERIP) module kits, including titanium...
by Joe Katzman | Feb 27, 2006 | Asia - Central, Britain/U.K., Helicopters & Rotary, Materials Innovations, Middle East - Other, Rolls Royce, Testing & Evaluation
Lynx, landing(click to view full) A trial programme run by Britain’s Defence Logistic Organisation’s Helicopter Engines Integrated Project Team (HEIPT) is trying to reduce sand erosion to the Lynx helicopter Gem engine Low Pressure (LP) compressor blades....
