by Editorial Staff | Mar 14, 2012 | Australia & S. Pacific, Budgets, Daily Rapid Fire, DARPA, Fighters & Attack, Leadership & People, Legal, Middle East - Other, Partnerships & Consortia, USA
* US Senator John McCain (R-AZ, SASC Ranking Member) sent a letter to the Secretary of Defense announcing he “will not support any further reprogramming requests for new, unauthorized programs except for emergency requirements” until he has received a...
by Editorial Staff | Mar 13, 2012 | Australia & S. Pacific, Britain/U.K., Budgets, Daily Rapid Fire, DARPA, Logistics, Middle East - Other, People, Rosoboronexport, Russia, Support & Maintenance, USA
* The US Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) Land and Maritime says its $1.1B Tires Successor Initiative (TSI) 5-year contract with SAIC is now fully operational. Aircraft tires started being handled within this agreement on Jan. 23, followed by ground tires a month ago. *...
by Joe Katzman | Mar 12, 2012 | Airbus, Britain/U.K., Daily Rapid Fire, Fighters & Attack, France, Fuel & Power, Official Reports, UAVs, WMD Detection
* The US Department of Defense published an implementation plan for the operational energy strategy [both PDFs] it released last year. Energy considerations will be made part of modeling/simulation and requirements, and acquisition plans will have to incorporate Fully...
by Editorial Staff | Mar 9, 2012 | Australia & S. Pacific, Brazil, Daily Rapid Fire, European Union (EU), India, Israel, USA
* The Australian DoD announced the allocation of construction work for the third ship of the $8 billion Air Warfare Destroyer (AWD). * Earlier this week India debarred 4 foreign companies – Israel Military Industries (IMI), Singapore Technologies Kinetics Ltd,...
by Editorial Staff | Mar 8, 2012 | Contracts - Awards, Legal, Small Business, USA
In February 2012 the Inspector General (IG) at the US Department of Defense released a report [PDF] finding that DOD had awarded hundreds of millions of dollars in Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) program funds to potentially ineligible...
