by Joe Katzman | Apr 3, 2008 | Britain/U.K., Contracts - Awards, Contracts - Intent, Finmeccanica, Other Corporation, Support & Maintenance, Support Functions - Other, Training & Exercises, UAVs
Mirach target(click to view full) The UK Armed Forces face a wide variety of aerial threats, with variables that include speed, stealth, and flight profiles. Attack helicopters can have a speed of zero, for instance, while some anti-ship missiles can exceed Mach 3....
by Joe Katzman | Apr 3, 2008 | Bases & Infrastructure, Contracts - Awards, Other Corporation, USA
US SOUTCHCOM Hensel Phelps Construction Co. in Orlando, FL won a $91.3 million firm-fixed price contract for the design and construction of a building complex to support United States Southern Command and their collaborative partners. SOUTHCOM handles US security...
by Joe Katzman | Apr 3, 2008 | Contracts - Awards, IT - Software & Integration, Other Corporation, T&C - Microsoft, USA
The Defense Security Assistance Management System (and see DISAM Journal 2000 review) is a worldwide automated information system that is used for managing the USA’s multi-billion Foreign Military Sales Program. Legal restrictions concerning military technology...
by Joe Katzman | Apr 2, 2008 | BAE, Britain/U.K., Events, Issues - International, Issues - Political, Marketing & Advertising, Policy - Procurement
On July 25/07, new UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced that the UK MoD Defence Export Services Organisation (DESO) will be shut down. The agency was set up in 1966, when the UK arms industry was largely state-owned and concerned with selling off surplus...
by Joe Katzman | Apr 1, 2008 | Contracts - Awards, Europe - Other, Helicopters & Rotary, Missiles - Anti-Ship, Other Corporation, Turkey
Seahawk fires Penguin(click to view full) Kongsberg recently announced a signed contract from the Turkish Navy worth roughly NOK 210 million (about $41 million). In return, the Norwegian firm will provide an unspecified number of Penguin short-range anti-ship missiles...
