Marines showin’ some LAV(click to view full) In February 2006, the US Marine Corps was about to buy 130 new LAV-A2 8×8 armored vehicles in seven variants. The contract was worth $257 million, potentially rising to $307 million if an option for electric...
Small business qualifier Rolac Contracting Inc. in Minot, ND won a $7.8 million firm-fixed-price contract for Construction of a Security Forces Vehicle Building at Minot Air Force Base, ND. The base hosts the 5th Bomb Wing’s B-52s and the 91st Space Wing’s...
F-35B: lift fan open(click to view full) In January 2006 changes in the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program were proposed in the Pentagon’s FY 2007 budget request. One of those cuts was to the F-35’s engine choice program when the contenders were issued...
In September 2005 General Dynamics had just become a second-source prime for small-caliber ammunition to the US military, as a result of the Army’s small-caliber ammunition shortage. This broke Alliance Techsystems’ sole lock on the prime supplier position...
JSOW-A: Not confetti…(click to view larger) The USA’s AGM-154 Joint Stand-Off Weapon (JSOW) precision glide-bomb has proven to be popular with the US DoD as well as foreign buyers. Indeed, the program has gone so well that the U.S. Department of Defense...
