* The Government Accountability Office (GAO) thinks the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) should reassess its inventory reduction goals and schedule, lest they risk disposing of items only to have to buy them again. * Stan Soloway, president and CEO of the Professional...
* The US Marines' Program Executive Office Land Systems (PEO-LS) will hold an industry day on July 15/16 in Fredericksburg, VA to discuss its Amphibious Combat Vehicle (ACV) 1.1 requirement for an 8x8 wheeled amphibious combat vehicle. An RFP may come by late 2014 or...
* Iraq asked the US to launch air strikes against jihadists, but the US Administration and prominent US lawmakers hinted that prime minister Maliki should first resign to make room for a more inclusive government. Maliki says he won't quit. The Pentagon reportedly...
Leopard 2A6M CAN(click to view full) Canadian Forces took some of the lessons re-learned during Operation Medusa in Afghanistan, directly to heart. Canada's DND: "The heavily protected direct fire capability of a main battle tank is an invaluable tool in the arsenal...
* Insurgents and the Iraqi military have been fighting over the control of Iraq's largest oil refinery in Baiji, as well as waging an information war in parallel over their alleged accomplishments. * This brings to mind recent events in Libya, where the crumbling of...
* The White House continues to milk its failure to submit a proper Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) FY15 budget for all it's worth. Two weeks after saying it intended to spend some OCO money to reassure Eastern Europeans, funds previously meant for Afghanistan...
NGC's G/ATOR(click to view full) The ARMS (Affordable Radio Frequency Multifunction Sensors) program is focused on developing new manufacturing processes to improve manufacturing for ASEA (Active Electronically Scanned Array) radar components, whether that means...
* ISIS militants posted pictures to back up their claim they had executed hundreds of Iraqi soldiers near Tikrit. The pictures leave a lot of room for interpretation about what actually happened, but they seem to be working to escalate the situation into a full-blown...
C-212, hot & high(click to view full) Early operations in Afghanistan and Iraq led US combat commanders to ask for transport aircraft that could use smaller runways, and land closer to zones of operations. The US Army pressed its King Air C-12s and Shorts C-23s into...