* Adm. Jonathan Greenert, The US Navy's Chief of Naval Operations, is freezing civilian hiring - like the Air Force earlier announced - and cancelling a lot of maintenance work that was scheduled between April and September (i.e. the end of the current federal fiscal...
* In 2012 Lockheed Martin increased its yearly sales by 1.5% to $47.2B. Growth in aeronautics compensated lost ground in information system, confirming a pattern seen for the last two years and across contractors. Total backlog reached a record $82.3B (+$1.6B from a...
* Rolls Royce intends to cut or relocate 378 defense-related jobs at its plant in Ansty, UK, or almost half its staff. This follows the confirmation by the Ministry of Defence of a third tranche of redundancies affection 5,300 Army soldiers. * The SPEEA trade union...
Amazon AEW&C(click to view full) Embraer's ability to design and deliver EMB 145 AEW&C aerial surveillance jets to Brazil's FAB and foreign customers places Brazil within an elite group of countries. The FAB's 5 "E-99" jets play a critical role in the SIVAM program to...
747 ABL(click to view full) In January 2013, Lockheed Martin in Sunnyvale, CA received a $9.5 million to cost-plus-fixed-fee contract modification under the Aero-Adaptive/Aero-Optic Beam Control (ABC) Program. To explain that term in plain English, turbulence and...
* In the absence of FY13 appropriations, the US Navy is stuck with Ticonderoga-class cruisers that it wanted to decommission but Congress decided otherwise. However federal funding is currently provided by a continuing resolution (i.e. the extension of FY12 spending...
MQ-1, Afghanistan(click to view full) General Atomics may make the USA's Predator and Reaper drone fleets, but Battlespace Flight Services LLC in Arlington, VA has been a key provider of maintenance support for several years now, and their FY 2007 multi-year contract...
* The US Marines' F-35Bs are grounded because of a glitch in a fuel line used in the exhaust system. * The US Navy and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) are investigating whether a faulty digital nautical chart might be the reason why the USS Guardian...
BAE's Hawk:over the top(click to view full) The UK's Serious Fraud Office (SFO) spent 6 years chasing BAE Systems, over allegations that bribes were paid to secure foreign deals in a number of countries. Bribes are the least of the allegations involved in some...