by Editorial Staff | Apr 2, 2013 | Asia - Central, Budgets, China, Daily Rapid Fire, Helicopters & Rotary, IT - Software & Integration, Official Reports, Russia, Scandals & Investigations, Support & Maintenance, USA
* Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Greenert updated the US Navy on the state of their budget with a series of short videos. There’s a shortfall due to sequestration, but it’s not as bad as it was prior to the FY13 CR/Appropriations bill....
by Editorial Staff | Apr 1, 2013 | Africa - Other, Americas - Other, Asia - Other, China, Corporate Financials, Daily Rapid Fire, India, Israel, People, USA
* To “speculation” that China’s recent $10B investment package in Tanzania that includes port infrastructure in Bagamoyo may also have a military purpose, the official Chinese response is: of course not!. The reported claim that the port will handle...
by Joe Katzman | Mar 31, 2013 | Contracts - Awards, Engines & Propulsion - Naval, Guns - under 20mm direct, Northrop-Grumman, Testing & Evaluation, USA
Somewhere, overthe rainbow…(click to view full) Nuclear reactors save a lot of diesel fuel on huge ships like aircraft carriers, but there’s a catch. Mid-way through the ship’s 50-year life, the nuclear reactor needs to be refueled. The resulting...
by Editorial Staff | Mar 29, 2013 | Budgets, Contracts - Awards, Daily Rapid Fire, France, Legal, Official Reports, Think Tanks, USA
* The US GAO’s most recent batch of defense reports is focused on acquisition, starting with their latest assessment of Selected Weapon Programs (the infamous SAR report itself has not been publicly released by the Pentagon yet), while a 2nd report finds some IT...
by Editorial Staff | Mar 28, 2013 | China, Daily Rapid Fire, Israel, Japan, People, Policy - Doctrine, Textron, USA
* US NAVAIR’s Air Combat Electronics office (PMA209) recently held an industry day on the Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE). Here is the slidedeck [PDF] explaining that FACE is a standard of standards set to re-architect the acquisition of aircraft...
