by Joe Katzman | May 29, 2012 | Britain/U.K., Contracts - Awards, Engines - Aircraft, GE, Issues - Political, Lockheed Martin, Other Corporation, Power Projection, Procurement Innovations, Public Partnering, Rolls Royce, Spotlight articles, Support & Maintenance, Transport & Utility
Latest updates: Major deal adds HIOS segment to 2015. UK C-130 C5(click to view full) In mid-2006 the UK MoD added another platform to the expanding list of long-term, performance-based, public-private, “contracting for availability” maintenance solutions...
by Joe Katzman | May 29, 2012 | C4ISR, Contracts - Awards, Design Innovations, New Systems Tech, Other Corporation, R&D - Private, Radars, UAVs, USA
NanoSAR on ScanEagle(click to view full) In May 2012, ImSAR, L.L.C. in Salem, UT received a $24 million firm-fixed-price and cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to build, test, and assess a lightweight ultra wide band synthetic aperture (ground-looking) radar for use on...
by Joe Katzman | May 29, 2012 | Alliances, Australia & S. Pacific, Britain/U.K., Budgets, China, Daily Rapid Fire, Events, Fighters & Attack, Force Structure, General Dynamics, IAI, Industry & Trends, Israel, IT - General, Legal, New Systems Tech, Other Corporation, Public Relations, Scandals & Investigations, Singapore, Submarines, Surface Ships - Combat, Tanks & Mechanized, UAVs, USA
* The Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) published its Defence Budget Brief 2012-2013 [PDF] last week. It starts like this: “The numbers tell the story. Next year the defence budget will fall in real terms by 10.5%, the largest year-on-year reductions...
by Joe Katzman | May 28, 2012 | Contracts - Awards
Honor & Reflect(click to view cartoon) Monday, May 28th is Memorial Day in the USA. DID honors those who have given all of their tomorrows in American military service; we will not be publishing. Readers are reminded that in America, the Memorial Day moment of...
by Joe Katzman | May 25, 2012 | Budgets, India, Policy - Doctrine, Policy - Personnel, Policy - Procurement, Russia, Think Tanks, USA
* India’s new aircraft carrier will have its sea trials delayed. The problem isn’t the contractor this time – it’s the weather in northern Russia. * US base closures: if not this year, maybe the next? * The Center for a New American Security...
