by Joe Katzman | Dec 8, 2011 | Alliances, Asia - Central, Asia - Other, Australia & S. Pacific, Budgets, Contracts - Awards, Europe - Other, India, Israel, IT - Cyber-Security, Japan, Logistics Innovations, Middle East - Other, Mines & Countermine-IED, USA
* The US DSCA managed [PDF] $28.3 billion in Foreign Military Sales cases in FY 2011, and another $6.5 billion were made through Direct Commercial Sales, etc. Top 10 buyers were Afghanistan ($5.4 billion), Taiwan ($4.9 billion), India ($4.5 billion), Australia ($3.9...
by Joe Katzman | Dec 7, 2011 | C4ISR, Lockheed Martin, Satellites & Sensors, Support & Maintenance, Support Functions - Other, USA
DSCS Satellite(click to view full) Lockheed Martin Corp. in Sunnyvale, CA recently received a $92.2 million cost-plus-award-fee contract to continue service under the 5-year,sole source MILSATCOM Orbital Operations and Logistics Support contract. Work will be...
by Joe Katzman | Dec 7, 2011 | Australia & S. Pacific, Britain/U.K., Budgets, Daily Rapid Fire, Fighters & Attack, India, Industry & Trends, Issues - International, IT - General, Lobbying, Oceans - International, Security Contractor, Specialty Aircraft, Submarines, Surface Ships - Combat
* It’s not just the pending US FY13 President Budget that won’t reflect sequestration, the 5-year Future Years Defense Program (FYDP) projection won’t either, based on an Office of Management and Budget (OMB) document seen by Bloomberg. OMB states...
by Joe Katzman | Dec 6, 2011 | Asia - Other, China, Daily Rapid Fire, Design Innovations, Europe - Other, Finmeccanica, Fuel & Power, Helicopters & Rotary, Medical, Middle East - Other, Missiles - Anti-Ship, Missiles - Precision Attack, Missiles - Surface-Air, Russia
* Syria gets its shore batteries of 72 supersonic P-800/SS-N-26 Yakhont missiles, in the midst of a growing civil war with demonstrators and a Turkish-supported Free Syrian Army. Maybe introducing the missiles wasn’t the best idea right now? And maybe supporting...
by Joe Katzman | Dec 5, 2011 | Avionics, Elbit Systems, Fighters & Attack
US F-16, Balkans 1999(click to view full) Elbit Systems of America, LLC in Fort Worth, TX has been producing F-16 related components for over 2 decades; indeed, that’s how the US subsidiary got its start in the aviation market. It wasn’t a huge stretch, as...
