by Joe Katzman | Sep 16, 2007 | BAE, Britain/U.K., Contracts - Awards, Fighters & Attack, Procurement Innovations, Support & Maintenance, Support Functions - Other, Transformation
RAF Typhoons(click to view full) Britain’s unusual maintenance approach for military equipment is called “future contracting for availability.” In English, this involves partnerships with contractors that establish fixed-price support services for...
by Joe Katzman | Sep 13, 2007 | India, Issues - Political, Legal, Policy - Procurement
It’s a growing practice in a number of Commonwealth countries – independent deal monitors outside of official auditing offices whose role is to scrutinize the defense procurement process and certify the process as fair. India, which has traditionally had a...
by Joe Katzman | Sep 12, 2007 | Contracts - Awards, Field Reports, General Atomics, UAVs, USA
MQ-1 landing -1 Hellfire fired?(click to view full) General Atomics of San Diego, CA won a firm fixed price contract from the USAF for $94.3 million in exchange for 36 Predator MQ-1B Aircraft, Aircraft Spares, RSP kits, Hellfire Missile Kit Installation, IMAs and core...
by Joe Katzman | Sep 12, 2007 | Contracts - Awards, Electronics - General, Forces - Special Ops, Other Corporation, R&D - Contracted, USA
EWA Government Systems, Inc. in Herndon, Va. received a 2-year, Indefinite-Delivery/ Indefinite-Quantity contract with a ceiling of $10.5 million from the Program Management Reconnaissance and Surveillance Office of U.S. Special Operations Command’s Intelligence...
by Joe Katzman | Sep 11, 2007 | Budgets, Corporate Innovations, Issues - Political, New Systems Tech, Northrop-Grumman, USA
WMSL-751 Waesche(click to view full) Sept 11/07 saw Northrop Grumman celebrate some milestones for its National Security Cutter program. The release arrived shortly on the heels of a Defense News Report that notes some of the process improvements in use within the...
