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17 E-8C Planes x 30 Months = $540M Support Costs

Rapid Fire 2011-12-16: Last Minute Funding – Everything Must Go!

by | Dec 16, 2011 | Asia - Other, Australia & S. Pacific, BAE, Budgets, China, Daily Rapid Fire, Design Innovations, France, Helicopters & Rotary, Legal, Lockheed Martin, Mergers & Acquisitions, Satellites & Sensors, Signals Intercept, Cryptography, etc., Submarines

* The US Senate voted 86-13 for the FY12 defense bill which President Obama is now expected to sign. Congress is also on the verge of finding another midnight hour funding compromise to avoid a government shutdown, pending votes later today. Meanwhile Republicans and...
17 E-8C Planes x 30 Months = $540M Support Costs

Rapid Fire 2011-12-15: House Approves 2012 NDAA | Sweden’s Weapons Exports

by | Dec 15, 2011 | Africa - Other, Airbus, Asia - Other, Australia & S. Pacific, Boeing, Budgets, China, Daily Rapid Fire, Europe - Other, Finmeccanica, France, Heavy Bombers, India, Issues - Political, Leadership & People, Lockheed Martin, Mergers & Acquisitions, Other Corporation, People, Policy - Personnel, Politics, Satellites & Sensors, Scandals & Investigations, Specialty Aircraft, UAVs, USA

* After the cremated remains of at least 274 fallen US service-members, and 1,762 other unidentified body parts, were unceremoniously thrown into a county landfill as waste, Tom Ricks says that “either the Air Force Secretary, its Chief of Staff, or both”...