by Joe Katzman | Jan 12, 2012 | Britain/U.K., Budgets, Daily Rapid Fire, Design Innovations, Fighters & Attack, Helicopters & Rotary, Issues - International, Medical, Middle East - Other, R&D - Contracted, Soldier's Gear, USA
* The US Office of Naval Research has funded & developed a battery-powered, hand-held device for Navy corpsmen, that measures intercranial bleeding. A life-saver, indeed. * The last 16 American AH-64A Apache attack helicopters will disappear soon, to be turned...
by Joe Katzman | Jan 11, 2012 | Britain/U.K., Daily Rapid Fire, DARPA, ECM, Equipment - Other, Logistics & Support, Mergers & Acquisitions, Oshkosh, Other Corporation, Textron, USA
* The USAF wants to follow in the US Army’s “Land Warrior” wearable computing vest footsteps. That may not be such a great idea. Then again, riding with gear is different than walking and carrying it. * US Army’s next-generation CIRCM effort to...
by Joe Katzman | Jan 10, 2012 | Asia - Other, Boeing, China, Daily Rapid Fire, Europe - Other, IAI, Logistics, Medical, Other Corporation, People, Soldier's Gear, Tanks & Mechanized, Think Tanks, Transport & Utility, USA
* The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) think tank published a report [PDF] on the South China Sea, a potential hot zone because of its sea lanes and China’s increasingly assertive territorial claims driven by natural resources such as deepwater oil and...
by Editorial Staff | Jan 9, 2012 | Budgets, Daily Rapid Fire, France, Israel, Lobbying, Materials Innovations
* The Aerospace Industries Association (AIA), National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA) and Professional Services Council (PSC), teamed up as the “Defense Industrial Base Task Force”, sent a joint letter [PDF] to Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta to...
by Joe Katzman | Jan 8, 2012 | Contracts - Awards, General Dynamics, IT - General, IT - Software & Integration, Lockheed Martin, Northrop-Grumman, Other Corporation, Support Functions - Other, T&C - IBM, USA
In January 2012, US Army Program Executive Office Enterprise Information Systems (PEO-EIS) issued 9 firm-fixed-price contracts, worth up to $249.8 million total over 5 years, for Enterprise Cloud Computing services. Cloud computing is a about providing computing...
