Rapid Fire Feb. 29, 2012: Foreign Entanglements

Rapid Fire 2012-02-27: Re-using Used Commercial Components

* Israel Aerospace Industries inks a $1.6B deal with Azerbaijan involving UAVs and missile defense systems. * The French DGA procurement agency released its 2011 activity report [PDF, in French]. Urgent operational purchase requests vastly decreased to just 20 million...
Rapid Fire Feb. 29, 2012: Foreign Entanglements

Rapid Fire 2012-02-24: Federal Acquisition Rules – Or Lack Of – Circa 1941

* Coast Guard Commandant Admiral Bob Pap made his annual State of the Coast Guard address [PDF]. On acquisition: “[T]here was a time when the Coast Guard operated 8 polar ice breakers. How did that happen? In 1941, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt passed a...