Fearless-75(click to view full) ST Kinetics subsidiary Singapore Technologies Marine Ltd. has won a EUR 534.8 million (about USD $700 million) competitive contract from the Ministry of Defence of the Sultanate of Oman, to bolster that country's inshore and mid-range...
* Concerns about China's ability to disrupt electronics and defense manufacturing by withholding rare earth materials are blowing over thanks to a ramp up in domestic production. See also this CRS report [PDF]. * The US closed its military bases in the Philippines two...
* The US Navy said it would start releasing emergency funds today to start compensating the households whose property was destroyed in an F/A-18 crash on Friday in Virginia Beach. Thankfully no one was seriously hurt: "about as close as you can get to a miracle."...
* US Navy Vice Adm. Mark Harnitchek, Director of the Defense Logistics Agency since November 2011, published his revised 2012 guidance [PDF] that conveniently highlights where the changes are. Among them, improved support for reset and force drawdown processes in...
* The Defense Acquisition University (DAU) put together a convenient chart [PPT] that compares major contract types - FPAF, CPIF, T&M et. al. - to show what risks they intend to mitigate, when they should be used, their main elements, what they commit the contractor...
* Pentagon Energy use data from a recent Congressional testimony [PDF] by Sharon Burke, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Operational Energy Plans and Programs: "For FY13, DoD anticipates spending over $16 billion on energy for military operations, which will provide...
* Daniel Goure at the Lexington Institute challenges the value of the "should cost" procurement methodology pushed by Undersecretary of Defense Ashton Carter. He calls it "new" but finds it "rather traditional in nature". Well, "should cost" looks traditional indeed...
* The US Department of Defense released its latest Selected Acquisition Report (SAR - PDF). SARs track cost, schedule and performance changes for 83 Major Defense Acquisition Programs (MDAPs) amounting to a total of 1.6 trillion dollars in spending. 3 programs were...
* The US Army will host [PDF] an industry day on April 24 in Sterling Heights, MI, to present its Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle (AMPV) program, a potential replacement for M113s with the goal of being both more survivable and more mobile. This one started in FY10 but...