* It’s confirmed: the Super Committee might have come close, but ultimately failed to reach an agreement. SecDef Panetta declared that “Congress cannot simply turn off the sequester mechanism” but also hinted that the nation deserves better than the...
* In the latest issue of Joint Aircraft Survivability Program Office (JASPO)’s Aircraft Survivability: a threat model development for Man-Portable Air Defense Systems (MANPADS), a study of how much of a threat their are to the large engines of transport...
* Russia is about to order 65 Yakovlev Yak-130 jet trainers, to be delivered by 2017. * Dmitry Gorenburg posted a series of 3 articles covering the span of Russia-NATO military cooperation. Things started with joint training but now also include operational...
* The USAF proposed the debarment of 3 contractors: Advanced C4 Solutions, Inc. (headquartered in FL), Superior Communications Solutions Inc. (GA), and Iron Bow Technologies (VA) because of a “history of failure to perform [or] unsatisfactory performance.”...
* The Guardian in the UK has gathered and crunched more numbers on operations in Libya (see also past linkage to Libyan ops debriefing). * The Pentagon is about to brief Lockheed Martin on how much F-35s should cost. Memos have also been flying back and forth between...
