by Joe Katzman | Mar 13, 2011 | ABM, Contracts - Awards, Small Business, Support Functions - Other, Testing & Evaluation, USA
The US Missile Defense Agency (MDA) recently announced the competitive award of 5 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contracts for advisory and assistance services, under Small Business Set-Aside Request for Proposal HQ0147-09-R-0001. Under this 5-year $861.1...
by Fred Donovan | Mar 10, 2011 | Airbus, Ammunition, Asia - Central, Britain/U.K., China, Contracts - Awards, Corporate Financials, Daily Rapid Fire, Delivery & Task Orders, Electronics - General, Europe - Other, Fighters & Attack, France, Helicopters & Rotary, Honeywell, Industry & Trends, Issues - Environmental, Lockheed Martin, Middle East - Other, Official Reports, Scandals & Investigations, Surface Ships - Combat, Tanks & Mechanized, Transport & Utility, USA
* Pakistan’s military wants more F-16s, plus Chinese submarines to go with its new French boats, and a joint submarine development venture. These plans are all being made against a backdrop of a serious domestic insurgency and widespread flooding damage, which...
by Joe Katzman | Mar 10, 2011 | Contracts - Awards, Helicopters & Rotary, Raytheon, Sensors & Guidance, USA
HH-60G, Afghanistan(click to view full) March 8/11: Raytheon announces a $42 million USAF contract for additional AN/AAQ-29A day/night surveillance and targeting turrets. They’ll be installed in the US Air Force’s HH-60G Pave Hawk combat search and rescue...
by Fred Donovan | Mar 9, 2011 | Asia - Other, Budgets, China, Daily Rapid Fire, DARPA, Design Innovations, Electronics - General, France, GPS Infrastructure, Issues - International, IT - Cyber-Security, L3 Communications, Northrop-Grumman, Policy - Procurement, Rosoboronexport, Russia, Scandals & Investigations, UAVs, USA
* USMC could lose up to a 3rd of its acquisition money, $563 million, under a FY 2011 continuing resolution, Commandant Gen. James Amos tells Senate Armed Services Committee. * Former L-3 engineer Sixing “Steve” Liu faces up to 20 years in prison on...
by Joe Katzman | Mar 9, 2011 | Contracts - Awards, Europe - Other, Force Structure, France, Iraq, Issues - Political, Leadership & People, Rumours, Support Functions - Other, Transport & Utility, USA
(c) DJ Elliott(click to view full) DJ Elliott is a retired USN Intelligence Specialist (22 years active duty) who has been analyzing and writing on Iraqi Security Forces developments since 2006. His Iraqi Security Forces Order of Battle is an open-source compilation...
