by Editorial Staff | Jan 5, 2012 | Boeing, Britain/U.K., Budgets, Daily Rapid Fire, DARPA, Europe - Other, Fighters & Attack, IT - Cyber-Security, Medical, Policy - Doctrine, Science - Basic Research, USA, WMD
* President Obama will attend today’s Pentagon briefing on strategic adjustments that will lead to a 10+% reduction in the number of ground troops (presumably from peak levels): NYT | Reuters | C-Span stream (to start live at 10:50am ET). * The UK’s...
by Joe Katzman | Jan 4, 2012 | Chemicals & HAZMAT, Design Innovations, Other Corporation, Soldier's Gear, USA, WMD Defenses
M50 mask training(click to view full) In December 2011, Avon Protection Systems, Inc. in Cadillac, MI won a 5-year, $176.4 million firm-fixed-price contract to make M61 filter canisters for the new M50 Joint Service General Purpose Mask. Work will be performed in...
by Joe Katzman | Jan 4, 2012 | Americas - Other, BAE, Contracts - Awards, Support & Maintenance, Support Functions - Other, Tanks & Mechanized, USA
Brazilian M113:from BAE(click to view full) In the early 1970s, the Brazilian Army acquired a number of tracked M113 armored personnel carriers from the US Army, to serve alongside their locally-built EE-11 Urrutu 6×6 wheeled APCs. The mix is a smart one; wheeled...
by Editorial Staff | Jan 4, 2012 | Americas - Other, Boeing, Budgets, Daily Rapid Fire, Middle East - Other, Mines & Countermine-IED, People, Policy - Doctrine, UAVs, USA
* US SecDef Leon Panetta will present the result of the Pentagon’s latest strategic review tomorrow. Nothing dramatic or really new appears in the pre-announcement coverage so far: Bloomberg | NYT | Reuters. Expect a confirmation of a relative, but not drastic...
by Editorial Staff | Jan 3, 2012 | Air Reconnaissance, Americas - Other, Britain/U.K., Budgets, Contracts - Awards, Daily Rapid Fire, Legal, Nuclear Weapons, USA
* President Obama signed the FY12 defense authorization bill (HR1540) on December 31 but expressed “serious reservations with certain provisions that regulate the detention, interrogation, and prosecution of suspected terrorists.” * A $355M contract...
