Sustaining the M1 Abrams: US Army Puts a TIGER in its Tanks

by Joe Katzman | Jun 30, 2011 | Contracts - Awards, Contracts - Modifications, Engines, Other Corporation, Procurement Innovations, Support & Maintenance, Tanks & Mechanized, USA

M1 Abrams: Let’s Roll(click to view full) Honeywell International Inc. in Morris Township, NJ won a U.S. Army contract to change the way it supports its AGT-1500 turbine engine, used on the M1 Abrams tank and related platforms. Honeywell had forecast that the...

WNAN: DARPA’s Idea for Next-Generation Soldier Networks

by Joe Katzman | Jun 29, 2011 | C4ISR, Contracts - Awards, DARPA, Design Innovations, Field Innovations, Other Corporation, Signals Radio & Wireless, Soldier's Gear, Transformation, USA

Not ideal. At present, many soldiers don’t have communications radios because the hardware is too expensive. Buying 2-way radios from Radio Shack before deployments solved that problem for some soldiers, but insecure communications created others. On the high...

UH-60M VIP Helicopters for the UAE

by Joe Katzman | Jun 28, 2011 | BAE, Contracts - Intent, ECM, GE, Helicopters & Rotary, Middle East - Other, Northrop-Grumman, Other Corporation, Protective Systems - Aircraft, United Technologies, USA

US UH-60M carriesIraqi PM, 2007(click to view full) June 24/11: The US DSCA announces [PDF] the United Arab Emirates’ formal request for 5 UH-60M Black Hawk VIP helicopters. The move will bring the UAE’s UH-60M fleet to 45 helicopters, which breaks down as...

Morocco Boosting its Air Defense System

by Joe Katzman | Jun 28, 2011 | Africa - Other, Contracts - Awards, Guns - 20-59 mm direct, Missiles - Surface-Air, Other Corporation, Radars, Raytheon, Signals Radio & Wireless, Thales, Trucks & Transport, USA

MPQ-64F1 Sentinel(click to view full) June 24/11: The US DSCA announces [PDF] Morocco’s official request to buy 8 AN/MPQ-64F1 Improved Sentinel radars, 8 M1152 HMMWV Sentinel transports, 8 accompanying AN/VRC-92E SINCGARS Vehicular Dual Long-Range System Radios,...

$64.4M for Brigade Garrison in Ghazni, Afghanistan

by Joe Katzman | Jun 28, 2011 | Asia - Central, Bases & Infrastructure, Contracts - Awards, USA

The Lakeshore TolTest JV, LLC in Detroit, MI recently won a $64.4 million firm-fixed-price contract to design and build a brigade garrison at “Deh Yak Ghazni”, Afghanistan. Work will be performed in Ghazni, Afghanistan, with an estimated completion date of...