by Joe Katzman | Jun 12, 2011 | Africa - Other, Contracts - Awards, Europe - Other, France, Helicopters & Rotary, Iraq, Radars, Signals Radio & Wireless, Transport & Utility, USA
(c) DJ Elliott(click to view full) DJ Elliott is a retired USN Intelligence Specialist (22 years active duty) who has been analyzing and writing on Iraqi Security Forces developments since 2006. His Iraqi Security Forces Order of Battle is an open-source compilation...
by [email protected] | Jun 12, 2011 | Alliances, Asia - Other, Budgets, Domestic Security, Issues - Environmental, Issues - International, Issues - Political, Leadership & People, Middle East - Other, Official Reports, Policy - Doctrine, Politics, Think Tanks, USA
Leon Panetta told the Senate Armed Services Committee that his main objective as the new Defense Secretary will be to ensure that the United States continues to have the best trained, best equipped and strongest military in the world. Despite the Department of...
by Joe Katzman | Jun 12, 2011 | Airbus, Contracts - Awards, Force Structure, France, Helicopters & Rotary, Iraq, Issues - International, Lobbying, Support & Maintenance, Support Functions - Other
Jordanian EC635 SAR(click to view full) Iraq’s air force is growing, slowly. The force still has no fixed-wing combat aircraft, but a handful of helicopters, transports, and surveillance aircraft have created a set of limited core capabilities. Bell...
by [email protected] | Jun 10, 2011 | China, Contracts - Awards, Elbit Systems, European Union (EU), France, Honeywell, Logistics & Support, Naval Equipment, Oshkosh, Other Corporation, Partnerships & Consortia, RFPs, Specialty Aircraft, Thales, UAVs, USA
* A new Electronics.Ca Publications report predicts that the global machine vision and vision guided robotics market will be worth $15.3 billion by 2015. The Asia Pacific region is expected to continue its dominance over this time period. * MDA, Ltd. and IAI’s...
by Fred Donovan | Jun 9, 2011 | C4ISR, Contracts - Awards, Europe - Other, Finmeccanica, France, IT - General, IT - Networks & Bandwidth, IT - Software & Integration, Lockheed Martin, Other Corporation, Outer Space, Satellites & Sensors, Thales, USA
Iridium constellation(click to view full) Most of us remember Iridium as the Motorola-backed, multi-billion dollar commercial satellite phone flop. The expensive, bulky phones, the $2 per minute airtime charge, and the inability to use the phone inside buildings...
