by Joe Katzman | Mar 24, 2006 | Contracts - Awards, Explosives, Other Corporation, USA
Stresau Laboratory, Inc. in Spooner, WI won an estimated $12.2 million firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/ indefinite-quantity contract for MK17 Mod 1 electric blasting caps. Work will be performed in Spooner, WI and is expected to be complete by March 2011. The...
by Joe Katzman | Mar 23, 2006 | Alliances, Britain/U.K., Fighters & Attack, Issues - International, Issues - Political, Lobbying, New Systems Tech, Partnerships & Consortia, Policy - Procurement, USA
(click to view full) Recent news has been alternately bad and good for the JSF program. Fortunately, the good news came last. DID has covered the saga of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program, and especially the controversy in the UK over its planned purchase of at...
by Joe Katzman | Mar 23, 2006 | ABM, Britain/U.K., DID site, Europe - Other, France, Issues - International, Issues - Political, Japan, Lockheed Martin, MBDA, Missiles - Surface-Air, New Systems Tech, R&D - Contracted, Testing & Evaluation, Transformation, USA, Warfare - Trends
MEADS: ground view(click to view full) As the ongoing development of nuclear weapons by unstable rogue regimes continue to make missile defense more of a global issue, Japan’s cooperation with the USA has been obvious, including a recently successful joint test...
by Joe Katzman | Mar 23, 2006 | Contracts - Modifications, Design Innovations, Helicopters & Rotary, New Systems Tech, Other Corporation, Trucks & Transport, USA
HMMWV, IEDed(click to view full) AM General L.L.C. in South Bend, IN received another $56.2 million modification to a firm-fixed-price contract for new M1152 two-door, armor-installable HMMWV jeeps. DID has covered the M1151 and M1152 HMMWVs before, and explained both...
by Joe Katzman | Mar 23, 2006 | Africa - Other, Americas - Other, Australia & S. Pacific, BAE, Contracts - Modifications, Design Innovations, Forces - Marines, Middle East - Other, Mines & Countermine-IED, New Systems Tech, Other Corporation, Trucks & Transport, USA, Warfare - Lessons, Warfare - Trends
M1114 On Patrol in Iraq The Army Tank-Automotive and Armaments Command in Warren, MI has issued a trio of recent modifications under a firm-fixed-price contract (DAAE07-01-C-S001) to AM General LLC in South Bend, IN for M1151 and M1152 Humvee up-armored jeeps. The...
