Hesco, explained(click to view full) It’s a surprisingly simple concept. Why ship walls, concrete, or even concrete barriers, when you can ship collapsible forms that can quickly be filled with sand or dirt by any untrained person? Why use sandbags with their...
Blackwater contractors In January 2007, DID asked “Contractors on the Battlefield: Has Their Legal Status Just Changed?” Whether or not their legal status has changed under US military law, one of the world’s largest security contracting firms just...
Cast away… The USA’s Mine Protected Ambush Resistant (MRAP) vehicle program has received a DX rating from the Pentagon – a rating normally restricted for items like nuclear missile submarines. That rating gives MRAP vehicles supplier priority over...
M1133 Stryker(click to view full) Sept 14/07: The GM/ GDLS Defense Group L.L.C. Joint Venture in Sterling Heights, Mich. Received a $37.9 million delivery order for 33 Stryker M1133 Medical Evacuation (MEDEVAC) Vehicles, as part of a $5.68 billion firm-fixed-price...
ITT Corporation of White Plains, NY and has reached a definitive agreement for ITT to purchase all outstanding shares of NYC-based EDO Corp. for $56 per share in cash. Including approximately $120 million of net debt and the anticipated conversion of convertible...
