by Joe Katzman | Apr 5, 2006 | Ammunition, Contracts - Awards, Contracts - Modifications, Grenades, Guns - 20-59 mm direct, Guns - Personal Weapons, Small Business, USA
Mk19: Practice makes perfect…(click to view full) The U.S. Army Field Support Command, Rock Island, IL recently issued a series of firm-fixed-price contracts for work related to 40mm grenade production. This is a popular ammunition choice used in everything from...
by Joe Katzman | Apr 5, 2006 | Contracts - Awards, Electronics - General, Other Corporation, Submarines, USA
Treadwell AEOG Treadwell Corp. in Thomaston, CT received a $12.6 million firm-fixed-price contract for auxiliary cubicles and microprocessor controllers for model 6L16 electrolytic oxygen generators (EOG) which are the primary oxygen producer aboard SSN-688 Los...
by Joe Katzman | Apr 4, 2006 | Coastal & Littoral, Design Innovations, Middle East - Other, New Systems Tech, News, Other Corporation, Testing & Evaluation, Underwater Weapons
VA-111 Shkval(click to view full) Lots of news today covering the Iranians’ reputed test of a “sonar-evading underwater missile… General Fadavi said only one other country, Russia, had a missile that moved underwater as fast as the Iranian one, which...
by Joe Katzman | Apr 4, 2006 | Blimps & LTA Craft, Budgets, DARPA, Expeditionary Warfare, Field Reports, Issues - Political, New Systems Tech, Transport & Utility, USA, Warfare - Lessons
Goo goo g’gone?(click to view full) DID has covered the WALRUS airship project before, and explained why DARPA believed the time might be right to build an airship that could lift 1-2 million pounds half-way around the world in a week. We’ve continued to...
by Joe Katzman | Apr 4, 2006 | C4ISR, Electronics - General, IT - Networks & Bandwidth, Lockheed Martin, Northrop-Grumman, Satellites & Sensors, Testing & Evaluation, USA
Laser SATCOM concept As DID noted in its focus article covering the $14-18 billion TSAT program and the future of the US SATCOM network, the U.S. has a big choice to make in 2007. It will either decide to build the TSAT system on its current schedule for launch in...
