by Joe Katzman | Nov 28, 2010 | Contracts - Modifications, Engines - Aircraft, Fighters & Attack, GE, USA
F-16C Block 30s(click to view full) General Electric Aviation of Cincinnati, OH received a $50.5 million contract modification which will provide newly redesigned High Pressure Compressor and High Pressure Turbine assemblies, newly redesigned Aging Engine Upgrade...
by Fred Donovan | Nov 24, 2010 | Airbus, Alliances, Asia - Other, Bases & Infrastructure, C4ISR, Daily Rapid Fire, Electronics - General, Europe - Other, Forces - Special Ops, France, Fuel & Power, Industry & Trends, Issues - International, IT - General, Missiles - Anti-Armor, Pre-RFP, Surface Ships - Combat, USA
* Washington crosses the Korea Strait: US sends nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN 73) from Japan to participate in joint exercises with South Korea. * Hairy, Audacious Goal: European defense giant EADS wants to reach $10 billion in non-Airbus...
by Joe Katzman | Nov 24, 2010 | Asia - Central, Corporate Innovations, Helicopters & Rotary, Israel, Middle East - Other, Policy - Procurement, Procurement Innovations, Support & Maintenance, Support Functions - Other, USA
USFS Fire Cobra(click to view full) What do you do with 469 attack helicopters, once you’ve decided to phase them out of service? That was the question facing America, after the Army decided to retire its AH-1P/S/F Cobra attack helicopter fleet in 1999, and the...
by Fred Donovan | Nov 23, 2010 | Alliances, Asia - Central, Asia - Other, Boeing, Bombs - Smart, Budgets, China, Daily Rapid Fire, DARPA, Delivery & Task Orders, Europe - Other, Explosives, Guns - Artillery & Mortars, Helicopters & Rotary, Issues - International, IT - General, IT - Software & Integration, Nuclear Weapons, Other Corporation, Policy - Personnel, Science - Basic Research, Soldier's Gear, Testing & Evaluation, Transport & Utility, UAVs, United Technologies, USA, WMD Proliferation
* Volley for serve: US sits tight after North Korea launches artillery volley against South’s Yeonpyeong island. * This comes hard on the heels of revelations that North Korea has a large, modern uranium enrichment facility, using P-2 centrifuges. This is less...
by Fred Donovan | Nov 22, 2010 | Americas - Other, Asia - Central, Asia - Other, Australia & S. Pacific, Bases & Infrastructure, Britain/U.K., Budgets, C4ISR, China, Contracts - Modifications, Daily Rapid Fire, Europe - Other, Fighters & Attack, France, Fuel & Power, India, Industry & Trends, Issues - Environmental, IT - Cyber-Security, Lockheed Martin, Mergers & Acquisitions, New Systems Tech, Nuclear Weapons, Submarines, USA
* The full text of NATO’s 2010 Lisbon declaration, which lays out its new strategic concept, as well as approving the European missile defense shield (s. 36-38). * Can’t we all just get along?: US defense budget battle could be most contentious in decades,...
