* Gates looks to cut $10 billion to $15 billion per year in Pentagon waste. Washington Post | New York Times | Associated Press | CNN * Leaked Swiss Defense Ministry paper calls for shift from defense of homeland to security operations inside country. * Canada’s...
T700 engine General Electric Engine Services in Cincinnati, OH received a $9.2 million firm-fixed-price contract for the overhaul and upgrade of 20 T700-GE-701C turbine engines to the T700-GE-701D configuration applicable to the UH-60 Blackhawk and AH-64 Apache...
* NATO chief says it would cost less than Euro 200 million for C2 center to link alliance’s existing missile defense systems. * Life imitates Star Trek: USAF funds promising experiments with lasers and nanofluids to treat wounds. But the show never had to...
* Syria provided Lebanese militants with M-600 missiles – a Syrian version of the Iranian Fateh-110 – over the past year, according to Israeli defense officials. * In 2009, European firms shelled out $800 million to acquire US defense firms, while US firms...
$372 million in US Army orders for small caliber ammunition. (May 3/10) On March 20/09, Alliant Techsystems (ATK) in Minneapolis, MN received a 4-year indefinite delivery/ indefinite quantity contract (W52P1J-09-D-0027) from the US Army Sustainment Command in Rock...
