by Fred Donovan | Aug 26, 2010 | Asia - Central, Daily Rapid Fire, Electronics - General, Forces - Special Ops, Helicopters & Rotary, IT - Cyber-Security, L3 Communications, Middle East - Other, New Systems Tech, Policy - Procurement, Pre-RFP, Satellites & Sensors, Tanks & Mechanized, Transport & Utility, USA
* Try Again: US Army cancels competition for development of the next-generation Ground Combat Vehicle IFV (Infantry Fighting Vehicle) after review by Pentagon acquisition officials; revised rules for a more affordable program expected in 60 days. * 10% Off Everything:...
by Joe Katzman | Aug 26, 2010 | Airbus, BAE, Boeing, Britain/U.K., Budgets, Domestic Security, Fighters & Attack, Finmeccanica, Industry & Trends, Issues - Political, Lockheed Martin, Missiles - Ballistic, Northrop-Grumman, Nuclear Weapons, Other Corporation, Raytheon, Submarines, Surface Ships - Combat, T&C - SAIC, Transport & Utility, USA
Guest article by Ian P. Wilson, Grant Thornton UK LLP Given unprecedented fiscal pressures inherited by the new UK Government, there is an increasing recognition that the UK will have to reassess how it seeks to assert itself militarily. Given the poor condition of...
by Joe Katzman | Aug 26, 2010 | Guest Articles, Sharpen yourself
By Evan H. Lesser, Co-founder and Managing Director, ClearanceJobs.com With some economists predicting as much as half a decade until U.S. unemployment lowers to the historical norm of 5%, this will not be an equitable jobs recovery and in certain industries –...
by Fred Donovan | Aug 25, 2010 | Asia - Central, Bases & Infrastructure, Coastal & Littoral, Daily Rapid Fire, Expeditionary Warfare, Issues - Environmental, IT - Cyber-Security, IT - General, IT - Software & Integration, People, Policy - Doctrine, Russia, Training & Exercises, USA
* Flash Dance: A flash drive that uploaded malicious code into the US Central Command network in 2008 provided an unidentified foreign intelligence service with undetected access to classified US information, admits a US Pentagon official in a Foreign Affairs article....
by Joe Katzman | Aug 25, 2010 | C4ISR, Contracts - Awards, DARPA, IT - Networks & Bandwidth, R&D - Contracted, Satellites & Sensors, USA
I-4 satellite(click to view full) Inmarsat Navigation Ventures, Ltd. in London, England recently received an $18 million firm-fixed-price demonstration contract to develop and certify a transceiver terminal for their 3-satellite I-4 constellation’s Inmarsat...
