GD Building DDG-115 Destroyer

by Joe Katzman | Sep 27, 2011 | Contracts - Awards, General Dynamics, Surface Ships - Combat, USA

Latest updates: Contract for DDG 115, option for DDG 116. USS Stockdale [DDG 106](click to view full) In 2009, a deal was struck that shifted most DDG-1000 Zumwalt Class work to Bath Iron Works, in exchange for Northrop Grumman’s Ingalls shipyard taking over...

Rapid Fire: 2011-09-27 | Design for Reliability; Green Energy; US Senate Stopgap Deal

by Joe Katzman | Sep 27, 2011 | Australia & S. Pacific, Boeing, China, Daily Rapid Fire, Engines - Aircraft, Europe - Other, Fighters & Attack, Helicopters & Rotary, Lockheed Martin, Other Corporation, Politics, Project Methodologies, Raytheon, Rosoboronexport, Russia, Testing & Evaluation, UAVs, USA

* Job cuts: 540 layoffs coming at Lockheed Martin Aeronautics, as part of corporate plans to reduce their workforce ahead of budget squeezes. Meanwhile the BBC has new details about BAE’s cuts in the UK. * Michael Gilmore, Director of Operational Test &...

UAE Buying the Newest Hellfire Missile for its Choppers

by Joe Katzman | Sep 26, 2011 | Boeing, Contracts - Intent, Design Innovations, Helicopters & Rotary, Lockheed Martin, Missiles - Anti-Armor, New Systems Tech, Support & Maintenance, Support Functions - Other, United Arab Emirates (UAE), USA

Part-converted UH-60M(click to view full) Sept 22/11: The US DSCA announces [PDF] the United Arab Emirates’ request to buy 500 AGM-114R3 Hellfire II missiles, plus containers, spare and repair parts, support and test equipment, repair and return support,...

Saudis Look to USA for Towed Light Artillery

by Joe Katzman | Sep 25, 2011 | BAE, Contracts - Intent, Electronics - General, General Dynamics, Guns - Artillery & Mortars, Northrop-Grumman, Other Corporation, Saudi Arabia, Shells & Mortar Rounds, Signals Radio & Wireless, Support & Maintenance, Support Functions - Other, Trucks & Transport, USA

M119 105mm Sept 21/11: The US Defense Security Cooperation Agency announces Saudi Arabia’s formal request for up to $886 million of equipment to augment the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s existing light artillery capabilities. The Royal Saudi Land Forces...

DTRA & Achaogen Targeting Class A Bacterial Pathogens

by Joe Katzman | Sep 25, 2011 | Biological Weapons, Contracts - Awards, Medical, R&D - Contracted, Small Business, USA, WMD Defenses

Achaogen in San Francisco, CA is working on “preclinical development of novel therapeutics that reduce the virulence of, and inhibit resistance in, Class A Bacterial Pathogens.” Achaogen closed a $26 million round of venture financing in October 2006, and...