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...
by Editorial Staff | Mar 8, 2012 | Airbus, Budgets, China, Corporate Financials, Daily Rapid Fire, Design Innovations, IT - Cyber-Security, Robots, Soldier's Gear, USA
* EADS announced they grew yearly revenue by 7.4% to 49.1 billion euros in 2011 (about $65B). Growth was driven by Airbus Commercial (their best year ever) and Eurocopter (whose revenue was 47% military). The Airbus Military business lost 6.7% from 2010 to 2.5 billion...
