by Joe Katzman | Nov 19, 2009 | Contracts - Awards, Europe - Other, Other Corporation, Simulation & Training, Specialty Aircraft, Support Functions - Other, United Arab Emirates (UAE)
Pilatus PC-21(click to view full) During the 2009 Dubai airshow, the United Arab Emirates signed a contract with Pilatus to buy 25 PC-21 intermediate trainer aircraft, in a package worth $511 million. That package also covers several training simulators and associated...
by Fred Donovan | Nov 19, 2009 | BAE, C4ISR, Contracts - Awards, IT - General, Lockheed Martin, Submarines, Surface Ships - Combat, Surface Ships - Other, USA
BAE Systems received a contract worth up to $233 million to support the US Navy’s Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR) with engineering services, production engineering, integration, testing, inspection, and installation of various C4ISR (command,...
by Fred Donovan | Nov 19, 2009 | Boeing, Contracts - Modifications, Lockheed Martin, Missiles - Ballistic, Northrop-Grumman, Other Corporation, Support Functions - Other, USA
Dr. Strangelove(click to view larger) In the 1960s dark comedy Dr. Strangelove, a rogue US Air Force general succeeds in usurping the US “fail-safe” security system preventing unauthorized use of nuclear weapons. As a result, a nuclear weapon is dropped on...
by Fred Donovan | Nov 19, 2009 | Contracts - Awards, Fuel & Power, Israel, Other Corporation, USA
Valero Marketing & Supply Co. in San Antonio, TX won a maximum $118 million fixed price with economic price adjustment, indefinite-delivery/ indefinite-quantity contract for aviation turbine fuel to an undisclosed foreign customer under the Foreign Military Sales...
by Joe Katzman | Nov 19, 2009 | Budgets, C4ISR, ECM, Engineering Vehicles, Fighters & Attack, France, Helicopters & Rotary, IT - Networks & Bandwidth, Policy - Procurement, Procurement Innovations, Remote Weapons Systems, Sensors & Guidance, Surface Ships - Combat, Trucks & Transport, USA
Buffalo, arrivé(click to view full) The French DGA procurement agency recently announced [in French] that its 2009 urgences operations (UO, formerly “crash programs”) budget doubled from EUR 131 million in 2008 to EUR 260 million in 2009. This change is in...
