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Up to $45.9M to GD for USMC AccessNet Voice Conferencing System

Rapid Fire 2010-04-29: US Nuclear Posture

by | Apr 28, 2010 | Africa - Other, Alliances, Asia - Central, Bases & Infrastructure, Britain/U.K., C4ISR, Corporate Financials, Daily Rapid Fire, Design Innovations, Engineer Units, Europe - Other, France, General Dynamics, Helicopters & Rotary, Issues - International, Issues - Political, Japan, Lockheed Martin, Materials Innovations, Northrop-Grumman, Nuclear Weapons, Procurement Innovations, R&D - Contracted, Russia, Think Tanks, USA, WMD Proliferation

* NATO chief proposes common funding pool for NATO missions and country-specific specialization in major weapon system procurement. * US CSBA rips “flawed logic” [PDF] of USA’s recent nuclear posture review. April 2010 backgrounders also include the...
Up to $45.9M to GD for USMC AccessNet Voice Conferencing System

Modular Space: DARPA’s F6 Program

by | Apr 27, 2010 | BAE, Boeing, Contracts - Awards, DARPA, Design Innovations, L3 Communications, Lockheed Martin, New Systems Tech, Northrop-Grumman, Other Corporation, Outer Space, Satellites & Sensors, T&C - IBM, T&C - SAIC, USA

System F6 concept(click to view full) Satellites are currently big, expensive to build and launch, vulnerable, impossible in practice to upgrade on-orbit, difficult to replace – and critical to military effectiveness. That’s a really bad combination. Now...