by Joe Katzman | Oct 5, 2011 | Contracts - Awards, Missiles - Air-Air, Raytheon, USA
AIM-9X test launch, F-18C(click for close-up) Raytheon’s AIM-9X Block II would have made Top Gun a very short movie. It’s the USA’s most advanced short range air-air missile, capable of using its datalink, thrust vectoring maneuverability, and...
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...
