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,...
by Editorial Staff | May 13, 2013 | Africa - Other, Australia & S. Pacific, Budgets, China, Daily Rapid Fire, Forces - Special Ops, France, Guns - Artillery & Mortars, India, Israel, Russia, Submarines, Think Tanks, USA
* After long negotiations between its ministry of finance and defense officials, Israel’s defense budget looks set to be reduced by 3 billion sheqels (about $830M) in 2014, with 1 NIS billion in reserves used to dampen cuts that were initially expected to be...
by Editorial Staff | May 10, 2013 | Australia & S. Pacific, Brazil, Daily Rapid Fire, Finmeccanica, India, Industry & Trends, Leadership & People, Policy - Doctrine, Raytheon, Turkey, USA
* Raytheon Missile Systems announced it completed test flights of the control test vehicle (CTV) for the Counter-Rocket Artillery Mortar(C-RAM) Accelerated Improved Intercept Initiative (AI3). In February 2013 the US Army had announced a sole sourced 5-year IDIQ...
