Old: Gazelle(click to view full) On Jan 31/08, French Defence Minister Herve Morin authorized the first public-private partnership contract by the French DGA procurement agency. This kind of arrangement is becoming more common, especially in Britain, but France has...
In late December 2007, BAE Systems signed a definitive agreement to sell its Surveillance and Attack business in Lansdale, PA to Cobham Defence Electronic Systems Corporation, for $240 million on a debt and cash free basis, payable on completion. The goodwill arising...
Protests, 2001-2007(click to view full) In “General bemoans glut of Air Force contract protests”, Government Executive magazine quotes Gen. Bruce Carlson, the commander of US Air Force Material Command [link added by DID]: “[he said] that the...
Shadow 200 in Iraq(click to view full) With delays to satellite programs forcing costly civilian bandwidth buys, and breakthrough programs like TSAT still a distant reality, the US military is looking for ways to deliver bandwidth to the front lines. Urban areas and...
Titanium In January 2008, Boeing signed a billion-dollar titanium deal with Russia’s Rosoboronexport military export agency, which had acquired top global titanium producer VSMPO-Avisa. While the 1973 Berry Amendment tends to exclude this titanium from the US...
