by Joe Katzman | May 12, 2006 | Airbus, Asia - Other, Design Innovations, Expeditionary Warfare, Industry & Trends, Medical, New Systems Tech, Other Equipment - Land, Power Projection
Deployed TransHospital(click to view expanded) EADS’ TransHospitals are a modular system that can clip convenient ISO Standard 20x8x8 container modules together in order to assemble field medical facilities of any size. TransHospital is just one of EADS...
by Joe Katzman | May 12, 2006 | Bases & Infrastructure, Contracts - Awards, Engineer Units, Small Business, USA
Couldn’t resist including this one. Small business qualifier Bickerstaff Brothers Inc. in Batesville, MS received a $5.7 million firm-fixed-price contract for flood control measures… in Water Valley, MS. Sounds like they have their work cut out for them....
by Joe Katzman | May 11, 2006 | Airbus, Alliances, BAE, Contracts - Modifications, Europe - Other, Fighters & Attack, Issues - International, Issues - Political, Lobbying, Lockheed Martin, New Systems Tech, Other Corporation, Partnerships & Consortia, Policy - Procurement
F-35 JSF(click to view full)Guest article by Endre Lunde Mixed signals have been coming from several of the embattled JSF program’s foreign partners, including Britain and Norway. In an apparent response to the Norwegian announcement that they might be...
by Joe Katzman | May 11, 2006 | Airbus, BAE, Europe - Other, Fighters & Attack, Issues - Political, Lobbying, Lockheed Martin, New Systems Tech, Other Corporation, Partnerships & Consortia
F-35?: not dawn yet(click to view full) In early 2005 Norway was being courted by Saab/BAE and EADS, and was considering a pull-out from the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program over issues of industrial share. The Norwegian Government has just decided to continue...
by Joe Katzman | May 11, 2006 | Australia & S. Pacific, Budgets, Coastal & Littoral, Contracts - Intent, Domestic Security, Other Corporation, Public Partnering, Specialty Aircraft, Surface Ships - Other
Keeping watch(click to view full) Part of the Australian government’s recently-released 2006-2007 budget proposal covers border protection and deterrence of illegal activities, including illegal fishing, people smuggling, and other criminal or even potentially...
