by Fred Donovan | May 14, 2009 | Contracts - Awards, Design Innovations, Lockheed Martin, Sensors - Aquatic, Sensors & Guidance, Surface Ships - Combat, USA
Lockheed Martin Information Systems and Global Services won a $10 million cost-plus-fixed-fee Navy contract for development, engineering, and testing of reliable acoustic path vertical line array (RAPVLA) sensor systems for distributed netted systems. RAPVLA sensor...
by Joe Katzman | May 13, 2009 | Boeing, Contracts - Awards, Europe - Other, Finmeccanica, Helicopters & Rotary, USA
Italian CH-47C(click to view full) Italy’s ARMAEREO procurement agency signed a EUR 900 million ($1.23 billion equivalent) contract to buy 16 CH-47 heavy-lift helicopters for the Italian Army, with an option for 4 more. These 16-20 “ICH-47Fs” will be...
by Fred Donovan | May 12, 2009 | Contracts - Awards, Corporate Innovations, Forces - Naval, Marketing & Advertising, Other Corporation, Public Relations, USA
Campbell Ewald Co. won an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for advertising and marketing services for the Navy Recruiting Command in Millington, TN. This contract is worth $146.2 million over the base year, and 4 one-year options could bring its total...
by Joe Katzman | May 11, 2009 | Budgets, Issues - Political, Think Tanks, USA
The US Department of Defense has submitted its FY 2010 budget request for $533.8 billion. This is 4% more than the FY 2009 base budget, but that is no longer an apples-to-apples comparison, as explained below. Weapons procurement represents $107.4 billion, or about...
by Joe Katzman | May 11, 2009 | Issues - Political, Legal, Policy - Procurement, Scandals & Investigations, USA
“Looking at Earmarks: Legislators for Sale?” examined some legislator’s records with respect to earmarks, provisions inserted into spending bills that target specific firms and products. That article looked at the range of earmarks given out, and...
