by Editorial Staff | Sep 21, 2012 | Asia - Central, Australia & S. Pacific, Budgets, Daily Rapid Fire, Russia, USA
* Pentagon Comptroller Bob Hale told the House Armed Services Committee that he thought large cancellation fees would be largely avoidable in case sequestration was implemented. The Pentagon would focus on lowering quantities and postponing shipbuilding within...
by Joe Katzman | Sep 20, 2012 | Contracts - Awards, Forces - Marines, Guns - Personal Weapons, Other Corporation, USA
Beretta 92/M9, firing(click to view full) In September 2012, Beretta USA Corp. in Accokeek, MD received a 5-year, $64 million firm-fixed-price contract for up to 100,000 of their M9 9mm Pistols. All of the pistols will be manufactured at the Beretta USA facility in...
by Joe Katzman | Sep 20, 2012 | Contracts - Awards, Intelligence & PsyOps, IT - Software & Integration, Northrop-Grumman, USA, Warfare - Trends
(click to view full) In September 2012, Northrop Grumman Information Technology Inc. in McLean, VA received an $8.2 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to support the Biometric Identity Intelligence Resource System. Biometrics has found an important but unheralded...
by Editorial Staff | Sep 20, 2012 | Airbus, BAE, Britain/U.K., Budgets, Daily Rapid Fire, Europe - Other, European Union (EU), France, Germany, Lobbying, Mergers & Acquisitions, R&D - Contracted, Russia, Submarines, USA
* Swedish general Hakan Syren, the Chairman of the European Union Military Committee, tells it like it is: “The military capabilities of the EU member states are on a steady downward slope. […] Looking a few years into the future, it is simple mathematics...
by Joe Katzman | Sep 19, 2012 | Boeing, Britain/U.K., Contracts - Awards, FOCUS Articles, New Systems Tech, Other Corporation, Project Methodologies, T&C - SAIC, Testing & Evaluation, Transformation, UAVs, USA
Class 1 MAV(click to view full) The USA’s Future Combat Systems Class I UAV is intended for reconnaissance, security and target acquisition operations in nearly all terrain, including urban environments. Each system of 2 vertical take-off and landing air...
