by Editorial Staff | May 17, 2013 | Asia - Other, Britain/U.K., Daily Rapid Fire, Legal, Pre-RFP, Procurement Innovations, Soldier's Gear, South Korea, Submarines, USA
* Rear Adm. Richard Breckenridge, the US Navy’s Director of Undersea Warfare, says they have enough SSBNs at the moment to fulfill deterrence goals, and will need at least 10 operational SSBNs to continue to do so in the future. And to do that until the...
by Editorial Staff | May 16, 2013 | Africa - Other, Asia - Central, China, Daily Rapid Fire, DARPA, Helicopters & Rotary, IT - Cyber-Security, Japan, Legal, Nuclear Weapons, Policy - Doctrine, Pre-RFP, Russia, Satellites & Sensors, South Korea, USA
* Rosoboronexport will deliver more Mi-17 helicopters to Afghanistan before the end of the year despite concerns raised in the US Congress, reports RIA Novosti. * The Electric Ships office within the US Navy’s PEO Ships update its technology development roadmap...
by Joe Katzman | May 15, 2013 | Airbus, BAE, Britain/U.K., Europe - Other, Finmeccanica, France, Germany, Industry & Trends, Lockheed Martin, MBDA, Missiles - Anti-Ship, Missiles - Precision Attack, Missiles - Surface-Air, Partnerships & Consortia, Protective Systems - Naval
CAMM-M launch(click to view full) In mid-May 2013, MBDA signed an MoU with Lockheed Martin that has the potential to shake up the naval missile industry. It sounds innocuous: both companies agree to jointly explore the market for the integration of MBDA naval missile...
by Editorial Staff | May 15, 2013 | Asia - Central, Britain/U.K., Budgets, Daily Rapid Fire, France, Germany, Legal, Mines & Countermine-IED, Official Reports, Other Equipment - Land, Partnerships & Consortia, Pre-RFP, Robots, USA
* The Pentagon’s latest proposition for furloughs of its civilian employees is down to 11 days, spread between July 8 and the end of FY13 on Sept. 30. That’s half of their earliest estimate and the exact number of unpaid days might still get lower....
by Editorial Staff | May 14, 2013 | Airbus, Asia - Other, Australia & S. Pacific, BAE, Budgets, China, Contracts - Awards, Corporate Financials, Daily Rapid Fire, Forces - Naval, India, Missiles - Ballistic, Russia, Think Tanks, USA
* The centrist Stimson Center issued a report [PDF] compiling ideas for defense savings from a wide variety of sources. Whereas the Pentagon tends to point to billions of dollars of imaginary efficiencies lacking any specificity, this document enumerates actual,...
