by Editorial Staff | Sep 12, 2012 | Britain/U.K., Budgets, Corporate Innovations, Daily Rapid Fire, Issues - Political, Logistics Innovations, Missiles - Ballistic, Procurement Innovations, Scandals & Investigations, USA
* The Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) on the rationale for Performance-Based Logistics (PBL): There are 9 contracts among the services to support [the T700] aircraft engine, plus some DLA contracts. That sounds like someone put together a bunch of contracts without...
by Joe Katzman | Sep 11, 2012 | C4ISR, Contracts - Awards, FOCUS Articles, New Systems Tech, Other Corporation, Policy - Procurement, Signals Radio & Wireless, Soldier's Gear, Thales, Transformation, USA
MBITR on 101st in Iraq(click to view full) Tactical radios are one of the quiet lifelines of the battlefield. They can also be be a very quiet pain in the nether regions. After-action reviews by US troops in Iraq have cited lack of compatibility among available...
by Joe Katzman | Sep 11, 2012 | Contracts - Awards, General Dynamics, India, Mergers & Acquisitions, Middle East - Other, People, Scandals & Investigations, USA
* With the US Congress back from recess this week, Senator John McCain [R-AZ] released selected quotes from the CEOs of the major primes pointing to the uncertainty and disruption associated with sequestration. Meanwhile the OMB is past its deadline on the report...
by Editorial Staff | Sep 10, 2012 | Alliances, Asia - Central, Daily Rapid Fire, France, Fuel & Power, Germany, Navistar, Official Reports, UAVs, USA
* The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) released its interim report [PDF] on the pretroleum-related logistics capabilities of the Afghan National Army (ANA). NATO’s Combined Security Transition Command in Afghanistan (NTM-A/CSTC-A)...
by Joe Katzman | Sep 9, 2012 | Brazil, Contracts - Intent, Engines - Aircraft, GE, Helicopters & Rotary, United Technologies, USA
FAB S-70 in Bolivia(click to view larger) Brazil relies heavily on Bell Helicopter and Eurocopter models for its armed forces, and a billion-dollar deal with Eurocopter made the Eurocopter EC725 Cougar Brazil’s standard medium helicopter across all 3 services....
