by Joe Katzman | Dec 22, 2011 | Contracts - Awards, Medical, Other Corporation, Support & Maintenance, Surface Ships - Other, USA
USNS Comfort, Haiti 2010(click to view full) Boston Ship Repair, LLC in Boston, MA recently won a $9.2 million firm-fixed-price contract for a 60-day regular overhaul/dry-docking of Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Comfort [T-AH-20] for ship repair and...
by Joe Katzman | Dec 22, 2011 | Airbus, Americas - Other, Corporate Financials, Daily Rapid Fire, Europe - Other, Fighters & Attack, France, Helicopters & Rotary, Mines & Countermine-IED, Northrop-Grumman, Surface Ships - Other, Transport & Utility, USA
* The US Navy takes delivery of the 25,000t LPD 22 San Diego. Commissioning is set for Spring 2012, in her homeport of… San Diego. * The Pentagon hopes supply routes in Pakistan will be reopened soon. Driving through Russia and other countries surrounding...
by Editorial Staff | Dec 21, 2011 | Budgets, Daily Rapid Fire, Financial & Accounting, Issues - International, Legal, Logistics Innovations, USA
* The Australian National Audit Office released its 4th review [PDF] of selected defense acquisition projects. It finds that sticking to the schedule has been more difficult than remaining within budget or delivering promised capability. “[T]he total time for...
by Joe Katzman | Dec 20, 2011 | Americas - Other, Asia - Other, Britain/U.K., Contracts - Awards, Daily Rapid Fire, General Atomics, IT - Cyber-Security, Medical, Middle East - Other, Mines & Countermine-IED, People, Specialty Aircraft, UAVs, USA
* Britain is really missing its Nimrod patrol planes. They had to dispatch a Type 42 destroyer from Portsmouth on the English Channel, to watch a Russian battlegroup 25 miles off of Scotland that included the Admiral Kuznetzov aircraft carrier. * The British Ministry...
by Editorial Staff | Dec 19, 2011 | Budgets, Daily Rapid Fire, Fuel & Power, UAVs, USA
* Kim Jong-Il’s death makes North Korea a big question mark given the youth of his apparent heir Kim Jong Un, presumably born in 1984. * The US Senate approved last Friday the FY12 omnibus appropriations bill that had already been passed by the House. This wraps...
