by Editorial Staff | Nov 22, 2013 | Americas - Other, Bases & Infrastructure, Brazil, China, Contracts - Awards, Corporate Financials, Daily Rapid Fire, Finmeccanica, France, Germany, Helicopters & Rotary, India, Industry & Trends, Issues - International, IT - Cyber-Security, Scandals & Investigations, Tanks & Mechanized, UAVs
Unstaffed DoD * Arnold Punaro, a retired USMC Maj. General and the National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA)’s new chairman, made a list of vacant senior civilian positions at the Department of Defense, and it’s a pretty long one. Either these roles...
by Editorial Staff | Nov 21, 2013 | Asia - Central, Asia - Other, Britain/U.K., China, Daily Rapid Fire, Official Reports, Policy - Doctrine, Scandals & Investigations, Think Tanks, United Arab Emirates (UAE), USA
Flip sides of the COIN * Just hours after US Secretary of State John Kerry had announced a deal had been reached, Afghan President Hamid Karzai postponed the signing of a security agreement with the US until after next April’s elections. American officials were...
by Joe Katzman | Nov 20, 2013 | Contracts - Awards, Corporate Innovations, Fighters & Attack, Helicopters & Rotary, Lockheed Martin, Other Corporation, Policy - Procurement, Specialty Aircraft, Support & Maintenance, Support Functions - Other, Transport & Utility, United Arab Emirates (UAE), United Technologies
Performance-Based Logistics has become a way of life in Britain’s military, and has also been adopted for some programs in the USA, Canada, France, and other countries. Now, a $5.8 billion contract will add the UAE to that list, and support every aircraft and...
by Editorial Staff | Nov 20, 2013 | Asia - Other, Boeing, Daily Rapid Fire, Germany, Heavy Bombers, Northrop-Grumman, Pre-RFP, Scandals & Investigations, United Arab Emirates (UAE), USA
Contractors Face New Regulatory Obligations * Effective since last Monday, a Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) amendment applies to all new contracts that use or generate technical information and spells out new responsibilies for contractors...
by Editorial Staff | Nov 19, 2013 | Asia - Central, Canada, Daily Rapid Fire, GPS Infrastructure, Legal, Russia, Science - Basic Research, USA
Pentagon: Creative Accounting; Commodity Buying; Program Crunch; Reform Pilgrimage * DoD is infamous for being unable to pass an audit, a situation they’re supposed to remedy by 2017, though whether they will meet that deadline is doubtful. So how do they...
