by Joe Katzman | Jul 30, 2007 | Electronics - General, Field Innovations, Industry & Trends, Interoperability, Middle East - Other, Security & Secrecy, Transformation, USA, Warfare - Lessons
“It had to be you…”(click to view full) America’s recently-passed 2007 supplemental defense funding bill (#2) included $320 million for an unusual weapon: biometrics. Fingerprinting, iris scanning, certain approaches to automated facial...
by Joe Katzman | Jul 30, 2007 | Contracts - Awards, R&D - Contracted, Support Functions - Other, University-related, USA
San Diego State University Foundation in San Diego, CA received a $9.1 million indefinite-delivery/ indefinite-quantity contract with a time and materials pricing arrangement to procure analytical and technical support services from undergraduate and graduate level...
by Joe Katzman | Jul 29, 2007 | Bases & Infrastructure, Contracts - Awards, Medical, Other Corporation, USA
Caddell Construction Company Inc. in Montgomery, AL won a $73.8 million firm-fixed-price contract for Construction of a Clinic and Demolition of a Hospital at MacDill Air Force Base, FL. Work is expected to be complete by Aug. 9, 2009. Bids were solicited via the...
by Joe Katzman | Jul 26, 2007 | ABM, Boeing, Contracts - Awards, Europe - Other, Issues - International, Issues - Political, Support Functions - Other, USA
(click to view full) Boeing in Huntsville, AL received a sole-source maximum $80 million cost-plus-incentive-fee, indefinite-delivery letter contract to conduct activation planning of a European-based Missile Defense Complex, as part of the Ground-based Midcourse...
by Joe Katzman | Jul 26, 2007 | BAE, Britain/U.K., Contracts - Awards, Contracts - Modifications, ECM, New Systems Tech, USA
BAE Systems’ Information & Electronic Warfare Systems group in Nashua, NH produces electronic IED jammers that disrupt the remote signals (often cell phones) used to set off land mines in Iraq, Afghanistan, et. al. They’re referred to as...
