by Joe Katzman | May 26, 2011 | Contracts - Awards, Design Innovations, Helicopters & Rotary, Other Corporation, Sensors & Guidance, USA
Apaches head out(click for full view) May 25/11: Radiance Technologies, Inc. in Huntsville, AL receives an $8.8 million sole-source, firm-fixed-price contract from the US Army. They’ll produce the hardware needed to equip a full battalion of AH-64D Apache...
by Fred Donovan | May 25, 2011 | Americas - Other, Contracts - Awards, Contracts - Modifications, Daily Rapid Fire, Elbit Systems, Fighters & Attack, Guns - Personal Weapons, Helicopters & Rotary, Industry & Trends, IT - Cyber-Security, Laser & EM Weapons, Launch Vehicles, Lockheed Martin, Middle East - Other, Northrop-Grumman, Other Corporation, Policy - Procurement, Projections & Assessments, Raytheon, Satellites & Sensors, Soldier's Gear, UAVs, USA, UUVs & USVs
* As operations over Libya drain European stockpiles of smart bombs, Defense Update’s “The High Cost of Precision Attack” looks at progress, pricing, and options. * The world military helicopter market reached $12.6 billion in 2010, and demand is...
by Fred Donovan | May 24, 2011 | Britain/U.K., C4ISR, Contracts - Awards, Corporate Financials, Daily Rapid Fire, Design Innovations, Electronics - General, Equipment - Other, Fighters & Attack, Finmeccanica, General Atomics, GPS Infrastructure, IAI, Launch Vehicles, Legal, Lockheed Martin, Power Projection, Projections & Assessments, Raytheon, Russia, Satellites & Sensors, Scandals & Investigations, Specialty Aircraft, Surface Ships - Other, Trucks & Transport, UAVs, USA
* The global armored vehicle and counter IED vehicle market is predicted to reach $25.1 billion this year, but decline to $24.1 billion by 2021, according to ASDReports.com * Russian prosecutors are pursuing criminal charges against space officials over 4.3 billion...
by Fred Donovan | May 23, 2011 | Asia - Other, Boeing, Britain/U.K., Chemical Weapons, China, Contracts - Awards, Daily Rapid Fire, Delivery & Task Orders, Electronics - General, Fighters & Attack, France, India, L3 Communications, Launch Vehicles, Legal, Lockheed Martin, Missiles - Anti-Armor, Other Corporation, Specialty Aircraft, Submarines, Support & Maintenance, Support Functions - Other, T&C - SAIC, Testing & Evaluation, USA, WMD Detection
* US Supreme Court throws out lower court ruling that would have required Boeing and General Dynamics to repay $3 billion to the federal government for the cancelled A-12 Avenger fighter program. * Does SpaceX have lessons to teach NASA? After it spends under $400...
by Fred Donovan | May 22, 2011 | ABM, Alliances, Americas - Other, Asia - Other, Budgets, China, Daily Rapid Fire, Elbit Systems, Europe - Other, India, IT - Software & Integration, Leadership & People, Middle East - Other, Missiles - Air-Air, Missiles - Ballistic, Official Reports, Policy - Procurement, Russia, UAVs, Underwater Weapons, USA
* Die Welt reports that Iran & Venezuela are collaborating on a hardened underground silo complex for Shebab-3 medium range ballistic missiles, on the Paraguana peninsula above Coro, Venezuela. * A leaked UN report says Iran and North Korea are exchanging...
