Rapid Fire 2012-02-24: Federal Acquisition Rules – Or Lack Of – Circa 1941

Feb 24, 2012 08:45 UTC by Defense Industry Daily staff

Coast Guard Commandant Admiral Bob Pap made his annual State of the Coast Guard address [PDF]. On acquisition:

“[T]here was a time when the Coast Guard operated 8 polar ice breakers. How did that happen? In 1941, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt passed a hand written note to Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau – Morgenthau passed the note on to the Commandant, Admiral Russell Waesche, – it simply read, Henry I want the world’s best icebreakers, [signed] FDR’
I guess Federal acquisition Rules must have been easier then!”

7 US Marines died on Wednesday night in a crash between an AH-1W Cobra and a UH-1Y Huey during training west of the Yuma Training Range in California.

The Obama administration follows a course of action suggested by Senate Armed Services Committee leaders earlier this month and implies it may cut off military aid to Egypt.

Inspired by the British MOD, the US Army has been fielding kevlar-reinforced garment that looks like bicycle shorts since June last year. They have “gone through a couple of design iterations [..] and it’s [now] more comfortable and breathable and Soldiers are more willing and apt to wear it” according to Lt. Col. Frank J. Lozano, PEO Soldier protective equipment. “Breathable” is definitely a necessary property when you sometimes have to go without a shower for months.

Meanwhile the Royal Canadian Navy is going to get new raingear by the summer, an acquisition funded under the Naval Improved Clothing and Equipment (NICE – if they may say so themselves).

The US House Armed Services Committee updated its schedule with 5 new hearings on the FY13 DOD budget. See DID’s consolidated hearing calendar. Canada’s 41st Parliament has also restarted its defence hearings: the Senate Committee on National Security and Defence will hear the Chiefs of Staff of the Navy, Army and Air Force next Monday.

Military historian Saul David talks about war logistics in the video below (the follow-up videos on the BBC’s website are sadly available only from the UK):

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Rapid Fire 2012-02-24: Federal Acquisition Rules – Or Lack Of – Circa 1941

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