by Joe Katzman | Oct 23, 2006 | Budgets, FOCUS Articles, Force Structure, Forces - Special Ops, Issues - Political, Top Stories, USA
The US Department of Defense has submitted its FY 2007 budget request for $439.3 billion. This is 7% more than the FY 2006 request, but slightly less than the $441.5 billion eventually appropriated by Congress in the FY 2006 budget. Note that this is just the first...
by Joe Katzman | Oct 20, 2006 | Alliances, ECM, Europe - Other, Helicopters & Rotary, New Systems Tech, R&D - Contracted, Rockets, University-related, Warfare - Lessons
From the movie… NATO reports that they’ve moved a step closer to providing their helicopters with added protection from rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) thanks to the successful demonstration of prototype technology in Bulgaria. While countermeasures exist...
by Joe Katzman | Oct 20, 2006 | Issues - Political, Official Reports, Scandals & Investigations, USA
Preliminary details are leaking out concerning the “Duke” Cunningham corruption investigation; his resignation from Congress and plea of guilty in November 2005 were based on his activities as a member of the Congressional Defense Appropriations...
by Joe Katzman | Oct 20, 2006 | Airbus, Americas - Other, Europe - Other, Issues - Political, Lobbying, Transport & Utility, USA
C-295 hits American chill(click to view full) Defense Aerospace carries a report to the effect that a blogger campaign managed to block the sale of EADS-CASA’s military transport aircraft to Venezuela. Readers of such reports are reminded of DID’s...
by Joe Katzman | Oct 19, 2006 | Contracts - Awards, Design Innovations, IT - Networks & Bandwidth, R&D - Contracted, Radars, Raytheon, USA
AN/APG-77 Test Back in December 2005, “Elec Tricks: Turning AESA Radars Into Broadband Comlinks” covered some preliminary breakthroughs by Raytheon and Northrop Grumman, and discussed the implications. Their work involved using cutting-edge AESA radars as...
