by Editorial Staff | Feb 11, 2013 | BAE, Budgets, China, Contracts - Awards, Daily Rapid Fire, DARPA, India, Issues - International, Japan, Leadership & People, Official Reports, Radars, USA
* The US GAO found that a new requirement to justify $20M+ sole-source contracts awarded under the 8(a) small business program had been poorly implemented by the services during FY2012. In any case the number and value of such contracts dramatically fell since about...
by Editorial Staff | Feb 8, 2013 | Britain/U.K., Budgets, Canada, Daily Rapid Fire, GPS Infrastructure, India, Israel, IT - Software & Integration, Leadership & People, Logistics, Pre-RFP, Satellites & Sensors, USA
* US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta said the FY14 President Budget will not be submitted until the end of next month. It will include a 1% military pay raise (i.e. most likely lower than inflation) but is not going to be fully based on the baseline established by...
by Editorial Staff | Feb 7, 2013 | Africa - Other, Boeing, Budgets, Daily Rapid Fire, France, Issues - Political, Leadership & People, Logistics, USA
* House Armed Services Committee (HASC) Chairman Buck McKeon (R-CA), SASC Ranking Member Jim Inhofe (R-OK), and other allied Republican members of Congress introduced the Down Payment to Protect National Security Act of 2013 [PDF] as their way of preventing...
by Editorial Staff | Feb 6, 2013 | Budgets, Daily Rapid Fire, France, Issues - Political, Leadership & People, Legal, Lockheed Martin, Polar Regions, Pre-RFP, Russia, Satellites & Sensors, South Korea, UAVs, USA
* US Army Chief of Staff Ray Odierno released a slidedeck [PDF] detailing the budget shortfall that will affect operations & maintenance for the rest of the fiscal year. Of course cramming a year worth of cuts into half the time is going to look bad. But the...
by Editorial Staff | Feb 5, 2013 | Australia & S. Pacific, Britain/U.K., Budgets, China, Contracts - Awards, Daily Rapid Fire, Leadership & People, Official Reports, USA
* The UK’ House of Commons’ Defence Committee published a report [PDF] on defence acquisition that raises a long list of concerns. The Ministry of Defence preempted one of them last week by publishing its Equipment Plan, just as the Committee was...
