by Editorial Staff | Feb 24, 2012 | Africa - Other, Britain/U.K., Budgets, Canada, Daily Rapid Fire, Issues - International, Logistics Innovations, Soldier's Gear
* Coast Guard Commandant Admiral Bob Pap made his annual State of the Coast Guard address [PDF]. On acquisition: “[T]here was a time when the Coast Guard operated 8 polar ice breakers. How did that happen? In 1941, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt passed a...
by Editorial Staff | Feb 23, 2012 | Daily Rapid Fire, Fighters & Attack, Legal, Middle East - Other, Official Reports, People, Scandals & Investigations, T&C - SAIC, Think Tanks, USA
* Turkey plans to proceed with its F-35 plans according to Reuters, while the US Defense Acquisitions Board (DAB) recently met to recertify the program because of its 2010 Nunn-McCurdy rule breach. See also the Feb. 16 update of the F-35 CRS backgrounder [PDF]....
by Joe Katzman | Feb 22, 2012 | Alliances, Asia - Central, Britain/U.K., Daily Rapid Fire, Fighters & Attack, Finmeccanica, Helicopters & Rotary, Japan, Specialty Aircraft
* Contract Pricing Reference Guides (CPRG) have been made available to the American defense acquisition workforce in PDF and MS Word format. They cover price and cost analysis, quantitative techniques for contract pricing, federal contract negotiation techniques, and...
by Editorial Staff | Feb 21, 2012 | Australia & S. Pacific, Britain/U.K., Budgets, Daily Rapid Fire, France, People, Politics, Russia
* Spending on private consultants within the UK’s Framework Agreement for Technical Support (FATS) is again making headlines: The Telegraph; The Guardian. Soon after being appointed, Defence Secretary Philip Hammond said last year that he was working on it. *...
by Editorial Staff | Feb 20, 2012 | Alliances, Americas - Other, Britain/U.K., Budgets, China, Daily Rapid Fire, France, Guns - Personal Weapons, Helicopters & Rotary, Middle East - Other, Think Tanks, USA
* France and Great Britain had a summit last Friday where they announced they are tightening their defense and nuclear energy cooperation. The two countries plan to establish a Joint Force headquarters and confirmed their joint UAV plans. * According to The Telegraph...
