by Joe Katzman | Mar 18, 2009 | Australia & S. Pacific, Contracts - Awards, Design Innovations, Engines - Aircraft, Other Corporation, R&D - Contracted, Robots, Sensors & Guidance, Small Business, University-related
Warren Snowden(click to view full) Research and Development is essential to any national technology base, and to the health of its defense industrial base. The USA is a global research leader, and some of its efforts have created international infrastructure –...
by Joe Katzman | Mar 17, 2009 | Avionics, Contracts - Awards, DARPA, Field Reports, Helicopters & Rotary, New Systems Tech, R&D - Contracted, United Technologies, USA
MV-22, landing(click to view full) In March 2007, United Technologies subsidiary Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. in Stratford, CT received Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) contract for a program called “Sandblaster.” Sandblaster? Being under a...
by Joe Katzman | Mar 17, 2009 | Legal
From the US Department of State, which is busy with an anti-stimulus program of freezing defense-related exports to key allies and markets, while it conducts an indefinite bureaucratic “review” of those relationships: March 5/09: DS-4071: Notification of...
by Joe Katzman | Mar 15, 2009 | Budgets, China, Events
Red flag to abull defense market As was the case in the communist Soviet Union, China’s official military budget and real military budget are not the same thing. Many items are hidden under other ministries, or simply not reported truthfully in the absence of...
by Joe Katzman | Mar 15, 2009 | Consulting Firms, Guest Articles, Industry & Trends, Mergers & Acquisitions, Projections & Assessments, USA
(click to visit) Guest article by Ian Cookson & Grant Thornton Corporate Finance LLC Aerospace component M&A activity remained strong in 2008, and was one of the best performing sectors, with the same number of transactions as the record set in 2007....
