by Editorial Staff | Sep 7, 2012 | China, Daily Rapid Fire, Russia, USA
* Pentagon acquisition chief Frank Kendall is about to update the Better Buying Power (BBP) guidance issued by Ashton Carter two years ago. * Part of BBP relies on reviving “should cost” procurement methodology. The RAND Corporation looked into it and...
by Editorial Staff | Sep 6, 2012 | Africa - Other, Asia - Other, China, Corporate Financials, Daily Rapid Fire, DARPA, France, Robots, UAVs, USA
* LockgropBoetheon? Brett Lambert, deputy assistant secretary for defense industrial base policy, says the Pentagon would have to reconsider its opposition to any further consolidation among primes if sequestration is implemented. * DoD guidelines may allow UAV...
by Editorial Staff | Sep 5, 2012 | Africa - Other, Airbus, Asia - Central, Britain/U.K., China, Daily Rapid Fire, India, Issues - Political, Lobbying, Raytheon, Russia, Scandals & Investigations, Singapore, USA
* EADS – a group partly owned by the French government – is miffed that the Aerospace Industries Association does not let them in. * Boeing sees potential for Arrow 3 sales beyond Israel, to countries including India, Singapore and South Korea. The program...
by Joe Katzman | Sep 4, 2012 | Industry & Trends, Issues - International, Issues - Political, IT - Cyber-Security, Security & Secrecy, USA
The May 2008 IEEE spectrum magazine, in “The Hunt for the Kill Switch”: “Feeding those dreams is the Pentagon’s realization that it no longer controls who manufactures the components that go into its increasingly complex systems. A single plane...
by Editorial Staff | Sep 3, 2012 | Airbus, Americas - Other, China, Daily Rapid Fire, India, People
* EADS subsidiary Cassidian named COO Bernhard Gerwert as its new CEO. Gerwert, a 59-year old German, joined EADS in 2004 replaces Stefan Zoller who left the group. * What’s new in China’s Type 052D destroyers? This remains to some extent speculative,...
