by Joe Katzman | Mar 14, 2006 | Airbus, Corporate Financials
European defense industry giant EADS recently announced its FY 2005 results. Amidst a year that saw it close out a deal for 10% of Russia’s SU-30 source Irkut Corp., buy Atlas Elektronik from BAE, and open an Alabama facility to help it focus on the US market,...
by Joe Katzman | Mar 14, 2006 | Contracts - Modifications, Engines - Aircraft, Fighters & Attack, Lockheed Martin, United Technologies, USA
F-22A Raptor(click to enlarge) The Headquarters Aeronautical Systems Center in Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, OH recently awarded a pair of firm-fixed-price, cost-plus fixed-fee contract modifications related to the F-22A Raptor fighter. Both are undefinitized...
by Joe Katzman | Mar 14, 2006 | C4ISR, Electronics - General, Industry & Trends, USA, Warfare - Trends
Charles Clark of Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne has an interesting article in EDN Magazine called “Parts Are Parts,” discussing the trend toward Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) electronics for military systems, and some of the additional work and...
by Joe Katzman | Mar 14, 2006 | C4ISR, India, IT - Networks & Bandwidth, Other Corporation, Signals Radio & Wireless
India Defence reports that India’s President Dr. A P J Abdul Kalam recently dedicated the Army Wide Area Network (AWAN), which has been designed to connect all Army formations, units, training establishments and logistic installations in the country. Kalam...
by Joe Katzman | Mar 14, 2006 | Budgets, China, Issues - International
Red flag to abull defense market Last year at about this time, DID noted the Chinese military budget’s double-digit growth. UPI Editor Martin Walker discusses the official Chinese military budget, and where it fits with recent events and defense budget plans in...
