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Rapid Fire 2010-06-22: Aerospace to Face Skill Shortage?

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* Accenture Research adds to a long list of reminders: Shortage of skilled workers could pose serious business challenge for North American aerospace and defense industry. * GALE Winds: Raytheon’s BBN Technologies gets $17 million order for DARPA’s GALE program, which is developing software to transcribe, translate, and distill large volumes of information in foreign language for US military analysts. * Retooling: Making tank cannons helped auto parts firm Barron Industries make the shift to defense supplier. * Jane’s and Peru’s La Razon [in Spanish] report that Chile has chosen AMRAAM-based NASAMS-II surface-to-air missile systems, joining Norway, Spain, the Netherlands, and Finland. * CSC snags up to $56 million in SeaPort-e task orders to provide the US Navy with computer simulation, engineering and model test support. * General Dynamics gets $49 million contract to support USAF Distributed Common Ground System (DCGS) and Project Liberty, which integrate data collected by UAVs and the MC-12 Liberty turboprop aircraft.

* Accenture Research adds to a long list of reminders: Shortage of skilled workers could pose serious business challenge for North American aerospace and defense industry.

* GALE Winds: Raytheon’s BBN Technologies gets $17 million order for DARPA’s GALE program, which is developing software to transcribe, translate, and distill large volumes of information in foreign language for US military analysts.

* Retooling: Making tank cannons helped auto parts firm Barron Industries make the shift to defense supplier.

* Jane’s and Peru’s La Razon [in Spanish] report that Chile has chosen AMRAAM-based NASAMS-II surface-to-air missile systems, joining Norway, Spain, the Netherlands, and Finland.

* CSC snags up to $56 million in SeaPort-e task orders to provide the US Navy with computer simulation, engineering and model test support.

* General Dynamics gets $49 million contract to support USAF Distributed Common Ground System (DCGS) and Project Liberty, which integrate data collected by UAVs and the MC-12 Liberty turboprop aircraft.

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