by Joe Katzman | Oct 31, 2013 | Contracts - Awards, Electronics - General, Other Corporation, Security & Secrecy, USA
Ricoh MFC(click to view full) Treat, or trick? Both, it seems. The key question is whether the machines are color – and whether they contain a widespread anti-feature that few people know about. At the end of October 2013, Army Contracting Command in Fort...
by Joe Katzman | Oct 30, 2013 | Israel, Partnerships & Consortia, Policy - Procurement, RAFAEL, USA
Breaking into the American defense market can be lucrative, but it can be scary for firms based outside the USA. At AUSA 2013, DID Editor Joe Katzman sat down with RAFAEL’s consultant Lt. Gen. William H. Forster, PhD (ret.), and other RAFAEL personnel, to...
by Joe Katzman | Oct 30, 2013 | BAE, Contracts - Intent, Lockheed Martin, Missiles - Precision Attack, Signals Radio & Wireless, Singapore
USMC HIMARS(click to view full) On Sept 12/07, the US DSCA announced Singapore’s formal export request for M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS) rocket launchers, designed to give Singapore’s forces long-range precision attack artillery...
by Joe Katzman | Oct 30, 2013 | Boeing, C4ISR, Contracts - Awards, Contracts - Modifications, IT - Networks & Bandwidth, Lockheed Martin, New Systems Tech, Raytheon, Satellites & Sensors, Small Business, Spotlight articles, Support & Maintenance, USA
GBS Concept & Elements(click to view full) Pentagon contracts occasionally refer to the Global Broadcast Services (GBS), a system linked to the Wideband SATCOM program. A variant was first fielded in Bosnia during 1996, and special nodes were also set up in the...
by Editorial Staff | Oct 30, 2013 | Africa - Other, Budgets, Daily Rapid Fire, India, Legal, Lockheed Martin, Singapore, Turkey, USA
NSA vs. NDAA * Intelligence oversight is likely to be one of the points of contention as the Senate attempts to finalize its FY14 defense authorization bill. Revenue Down, Profit Up, Cost Pinching * Harris Corporation reported Q1 FY14 sales down 5.5% to $1.19B. Among...
