by Fred Donovan | Feb 3, 2010 | Alliances, Asia - Other, Britain/U.K., Budgets, C4ISR, China, Contracts - Awards, Events, Fighters & Attack, Financial & Accounting, France, Helicopters & Rotary, Industry & Trends, Issues - International, Issues - Political, IT - General, IT - Software & Integration, Laser & EM Weapons, Lobbying, Logistics, Middle East - Other, Missiles - Precision Attack, Missiles - Surface-Air, Other Corporation, Raytheon, Specialty Aircraft, Thales, UAVs, USA
* Littoral Combat Ship: program updates. * A British green paper calls for enhanced military cooperation between the UK and France. Industry says: what about R&D? * India orders BEL’s Akash medium range surface-to-air missile systems. * India issues...
by Fred Donovan | Feb 3, 2010 | Contracts - Awards, Middle East - Other, Missiles - Precision Attack, Raytheon, USA
AGM-65D Fired From F-16(click to view full) Raytheon received a $170 million foreign military sales contract from the USAF to produce AGM-65D and AGM-65G2 infrared-guided Maverick air-to-surface missiles for the UAE. AGM-65 rose to prominence during Desert Storm, when...
by Fred Donovan | Feb 3, 2010 | Contracts - Awards, Financial & Accounting, IT - Cyber-Security, IT - General, IT - Software & Integration, Logistics, Other Corporation, Support Functions - Other, USA
Unisys Clearpath Server(click to view full) While it might be more thrilling to imagine US Special Operations Forces getting critical intelligence about enemy movements through a laptop computer in the field, the bread and butter of US Department of Defense IT are...
by Fred Donovan | Feb 2, 2010 | Contracts - Awards
* US DOD: FY 2011 Budget materials. * Shares of major US defense companies gained in trading following the unveiling of the Obama administration’s FY 2011 defense budget that would increase defense spending by 3.4%. * The Pentagon is proposing to spend $4...
by Joe Katzman | Feb 2, 2010 | Contracts - Awards, Field Reports, Forces - Marines, Grenades, Guns - Personal Weapons, New Systems Tech, Other Corporation, Procurement Innovations, USA
No worse enemy…(click to view full) While high-tech weapons items get a lot of billing, the Global War on Terror is very much an infantry war. Firepower overmatch matters in those situations, which explains the corresponding popularity of 40mm grenade systems on...
