Shamrock Provides Full-line Food Distribution to USAF Academy

by Fred Donovan | Jan 13, 2010 | Contracts - Awards, Contracts - Modifications, Food-related, Other Corporation, USA

Lot of mouths to feed(click to view full) Shamrock Foods in Commerce City, CO received a maximum $9.5 million firm fixed price, indefinite-quantity contract modification for full-line food distribution services to US military facilities in Colorado and Wyoming. The...

‘Know the Enemy’: DARPA Develops Simulation to Thwart Cyber Attacks

by Fred Donovan | Jan 12, 2010 | BAE, C4ISR, Contracts - Awards, DARPA, General Dynamics, IT - Cyber-Security, IT - Networks & Bandwidth, Lockheed Martin, New Systems Tech, Northrop-Grumman, Other Corporation, R&D - Contracted, Simulation & Training, T&C - SAIC, Testing & Evaluation, University-related, USA

Sun Tzu The great Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu observed, “If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.” This appears to the thinking behind the US Defense Advanced Research Agency’s (DARPA) new...

USA Beefs Up Nuclear Weapons Security

by Fred Donovan | Jan 12, 2010 | Chemicals & HAZMAT, Contracts - Awards, Heavy Bombers, Missiles - Ballistic, Missiles - Precision Attack, Oceans - International, Other Corporation, Security & Secrecy, Submarines, Support Functions - Other, USA

AGM-129A loaded on a B-52at Minot Air Force Base, ND(click to view full) In 2007, a B-52 carried 6 unsecured nuclear-tipped AGM-129 ACM cruise missiles from Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota to Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana. The nuclear warheads were...

Bristol Construction to Repair Rails at USA’s Largest Ammunition Port

by Fred Donovan | Jan 12, 2010 | Bases & Infrastructure, Contracts - Awards, Contracts - Modifications, Logistics, Other Corporation, Support Functions - Other, USA

MV TSgt John A ChapmanDocked at MOTSU, NC(click to view full) Bristol Construction Services in Anchorage, AK received a $17.5 million construction contract modification to provide labor, materials and equipment to repair/upgrade the access rail line and on-post rail...

$49M to Goodrich for Virginia-Class Block III Composite Components

by Fred Donovan | Jan 11, 2010 | Contracts - Awards, Design Innovations, General Dynamics, Northrop-Grumman, Oceans - International, Other Corporation, Submarines, Support Functions - Other, USA

USS Virginia [SSN 774](click to view full) Goodrich in Charlotte, NC received a $49 million contract from Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding to provide composite components for the next 8 Virginia-class nuclear fast attack submarines, referred to as Block III....