* Procurement data crunched by Bloomberg Government shows a surge of federal contract cancellations with 13,579 contracts worth $2.15B cancelled during the current - and almost finished - fiscal year. Some of these cancellations may be recompeted and are thus really...
Fuze family On August 15, 2012 the Office of the Product Director for Joint Products (PDJP) awarded a single Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) Firm Fixed Price (FFP) contract to Alliant Techsystems (ATK) to manufacture MK437 Multi Option Fuze for Navy...
* Hotspots: yesterday 11 American and Afghan troops died in a UH-60 Black Hawk crash in Afghanistan; Pakistani Talibans killed 22 Shite civilians and attacked a Pakistani air force base; more than 100 people died in a wave of attacks in Iraq. * This comes as Syrian...
RG-31, before(click to view full) Russian-designed RPG shoulder-fired rockets are a widespread threat in many parts of the world, including the current conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq. At present, the most common threats involve RPG-7 single warhead variants, which...
* Back in March the US Army issued a Request for Information to perform a Service Life Extension Program (SLEP) and On-Condition Cyclic Maintenance (OCCM) on its fleet of 34 Landing Craft Utility 2000 (LCU 2000) vessels. They are following up with an RFI to replace...
ACH in action(click to view full) The Advanced Combat Helmet (ACH) was one of the 14 Rapid Fielding Initiative items developed in 2004, for soldiers on their way to Iraq or Afghanistan. The ACH is made of a new type of Kevlar to provide improved ballistic and impact...
* It is hard to be more terse than the UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO) in their one-sentence statement last week that they "decided to open a criminal investigation into allegations concerning GPT and aspects of the conduct of their business in the Kingdom of Saudi...
* At a panel hosted by the Center for the National Interest, Grover Norquist argued against any tax increases to sustain what he views as an excessively interventionist foreign policy. Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, got many Republican congressmen to...
* The US military's hardened high-bandwidth AEHF-2 satellite has reached geostationary orbit successfully, without drama. That doesn't sound like much, but it's a big relief. AEHF-1's propulsion had major technical failures, forcing the biggest space engineering save...