by Editorial Staff | Jan 23, 2013 | Boeing, Budgets, Contracts - Awards, Corporate Financials, Daily Rapid Fire, France, Mergers & Acquisitions, Singapore, Textron, USA
* Rolls Royce intends to cut or relocate 378 defense-related jobs at its plant in Ansty, UK, or almost half its staff. This follows the confirmation by the Ministry of Defence of a third tranche of redundancies affection 5,300 Army soldiers. * The SPEEA trade union...
by Joe Katzman | Jan 22, 2013 | Avionics, Brazil, C4ISR, Contracts - Awards, ECM, Electronics - General, Other Corporation, Radars, Signals Radio & Wireless, Specialty Aircraft
Amazon AEW&C(click to view full) Embraer’s ability to design and deliver EMB 145 AEW&C aerial surveillance jets to Brazil’s FAB and foreign customers places Brazil within an elite group of countries. The FAB’s 5 “E-99” jets play...
by Joe Katzman | Jan 22, 2013 | Contracts - Awards, Design Innovations, Laser & EM Weapons, Lockheed Martin, New Systems Tech, R&D - Contracted, Testing & Evaluation, USA
747 ABL(click to view full) In January 2013, Lockheed Martin in Sunnyvale, CA received a $9.5 million to cost-plus-fixed-fee contract modification under the Aero-Adaptive/Aero-Optic Beam Control (ABC) Program. To explain that term in plain English, turbulence and...
by Editorial Staff | Jan 22, 2013 | Africa - Other, Alliances, Budgets, China, Contracts - Awards, Daily Rapid Fire, Fighters & Attack, Forces - Naval, France, India, Issues - International, Mergers & Acquisitions, Russia, South Korea, Tanks & Mechanized, United Technologies, USA
* In the absence of FY13 appropriations, the US Navy is stuck with Ticonderoga-class cruisers that it wanted to decommission but Congress decided otherwise. However federal funding is currently provided by a continuing resolution (i.e. the extension of FY12 spending...
by Joe Katzman | Jan 21, 2013 | Contracts - Modifications, Other Corporation, Support & Maintenance, UAVs, USA
MQ-1, Afghanistan(click to view full) General Atomics may make the USA’s Predator and Reaper drone fleets, but Battlespace Flight Services LLC in Arlington, VA has been a key provider of maintenance support for several years now, and their FY 2007 multi-year...
