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

Jun 21, 2010 22:08 UTC by Defense Industry Daily staff

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.

Categories: Americas - Other, C4ISR, Daily Rapid Fire, DARPA, Europe - Other, General Dynamics, Industry & Trends, IT - General, IT - Software & Integration, Missiles - Surface-Air, Raytheon, Simulation & Training, Small Business, Specialty Aircraft, T&C - CSC, Tanks & Mechanized, UAVs, USA

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

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