by Joe Katzman | Oct 5, 2011 | Boeing, Budgets, Corporate Innovations, Daily Rapid Fire, Europe - Other, Issues - Political, Middle East - Other, Policy - Doctrine, Scandals & Investigations, Specialty Aircraft, Think Tanks, Transformation, Transport & Utility, USA, Warfare - Trends
* After 15 years of pile-up, rising metal prices and clever thinking turned 30 million pounds of scrap at Thule AB, Greenland, into a full site cleanup plus $1 million. * Boeing has returned another E-4B national command and control aircraft to the USAF, after...
by Editorial Staff | Oct 4, 2011 | Britain/U.K., Budgets, China, Daily Rapid Fire, Fighters & Attack, Issues - Political, IT - Software & Integration, Policy - Doctrine, Russia, Support & Maintenance, UAVs
* The UK Ministry of Defence’s Major Projects Review Board (MPRB) got to work back in June and the first results are in: The Valiant Jetty project is officially considered to be underperforming and has been put on the “Projects of Concern” list. *...
by Joe Katzman | Oct 3, 2011 | C4ISR, Contracts - Awards, Forces - Special Ops, Helicopters & Rotary, Memoriam, Other Corporation, Sensors & Guidance, USA
MH-6M’s NASCAR visit(click to view full) US Special Operations Command’s helicopters are some of its most important assets. The service will need new helicopters in the near future, but meanwhile, they’re busy modernizing the helicopters they have....
by Joe Katzman | Oct 3, 2011 | Britain/U.K., C4ISR, Contracts - Awards, France, Middle East - Other, Other Corporation, R&D - Contracted, USA
In September 2011, The MITRE Corp. in Bedford, MA received a $394.2 million contract modification, exercising the 3rd option year for systems engineering and integration support for Air Force ceiling programs (892 staff-years) and Air Force non-ceiling programs (300...
by Joe Katzman | Oct 3, 2011 | Contracts - Awards, ECM, Other Corporation, Textron, USA
On April 2/07, BB&T Capital Markets upgraded EDO Corporation to “buy,” in part because they thought EDO was well positioned to win a part of the $200-$500 million Counter- Radio Controlled Improvised Explosive Device (RCIED) Electronic Warfare (CREW)...
