by Editorial Staff | Feb 17, 2012 | Daily Rapid Fire, Europe - Other, Japan, Legal, Middle East - Other, Think Tanks, USA
* German Defense Minister Thomas de Maiziere said the first rule of peace talks with the Taliban is, you don’t talk about peace talks. Well, he didn’t actually paraphrase Fight Club, but that’s the substance of his position expressed during a joint...
by Joe Katzman | Feb 16, 2012 | Boeing, Contracts - Awards, Contracts - Intent, DARPA, Design Innovations, Fighters & Attack, Industry & Trends, Missiles - Air-Air, Missiles - Precision Attack, New Systems Tech, Other Corporation, R&D - Contracted, Raytheon, USA
Latest updates: Next-Gen Missile Termination. AARGM Concept(click to view larger) In early FY 2011, DARPA awarded a pair of initial contracts for something called the Triple Target Terminator. In their own words: “The Triple Target Terminator (T3) program will...
by Joe Katzman | Feb 16, 2012 | Airbus, Asia - Other, BAE, Britain/U.K., Budgets, Corporate Financials, Daily Rapid Fire, Europe - Other, Legal, Lobbying, Other Corporation, Transport & Utility, WMD
* BAE Systems announced its 2011 financial results: sales dropped by 14% to 19.2 billion pounds (about $30B) while the order book shrank by 8% to 36.2 billion pounds ($56.7B). US sales accounted for 47% of the total but the Platforms & Services US division is the...
by Editorial Staff | Feb 15, 2012 | Australia & S. Pacific, Budgets, Daily Rapid Fire, Europe - Other, Fighters & Attack, Mines & Countermine-IED, Official Reports, People, Science - Basic Research
* Faced with a really tough fiscal environment, Italian Defense Minister Giampaolo Di Paola announced that Italy intends to reduce its F-35 order by about 40 units. Bloomberg | Reuters [in Italian]. * The US Defense Science Board task force published its final report...
by Editorial Staff | Feb 13, 2012 | Budgets, Issues - Political, Legal, USA
The US federal government puts together its budget by way of a protracted, ongoing process. As the largest recipient of discretionary federal funds, the Department of Defense adds its own layer of complexity unknown to other smaller departments. This article explains...
