* The Aerospace Industries Association (AIA), National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA) and Professional Services Council (PSC), teamed up as the "Defense Industrial Base Task Force", sent a joint letter [PDF] to Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta to outline what...
In January 2012, US Army Program Executive Office Enterprise Information Systems (PEO-EIS) issued 9 firm-fixed-price contracts, worth up to $249.8 million total over 5 years, for Enterprise Cloud Computing services. Cloud computing is a about providing computing...
Surgery, USNS Mercy(click to view full) Medical supplies are a requirement for any military, and are used by many other government agencies as well. The Defense Supply Center Philadelphia (now Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support) in Philadelphia, PA manages a...
* In line with pre-announcements made by his administration in past months, President Obama said yesterday he was directing the Pentagon to lower ground troop levels in favor of increasing special forces, cybersecurity and UAVs, alongside a shift in resources from...
* President Obama will attend today's Pentagon briefing on strategic adjustments that will lead to a 10+% reduction in the number of ground troops (presumably from peak levels): NYT | Reuters | C-Span stream (to start live at 10:50am ET). * The UK's defence secretary...
M50 mask training(click to view full) In December 2011, Avon Protection Systems, Inc. in Cadillac, MI won a 5-year, $176.4 million firm-fixed-price contract to make M61 filter canisters for the new M50 Joint Service General Purpose Mask. Work will be performed in...
Brazilian M113:from BAE(click to view full) In the early 1970s, the Brazilian Army acquired a number of tracked M113 armored personnel carriers from the US Army, to serve alongside their locally-built EE-11 Urrutu 6x6 wheeled APCs. The mix is a smart one; wheeled...
* US SecDef Leon Panetta will present the result of the Pentagon's latest strategic review tomorrow. Nothing dramatic or really new appears in the pre-announcement coverage so far: Bloomberg | NYT | Reuters. Expect a confirmation of a relative, but not drastic shift...
* President Obama signed the FY12 defense authorization bill (HR1540) on December 31 but expressed "serious reservations with certain provisions that regulate the detention, interrogation, and prosecution of suspected terrorists." * A $355M contract (FA8637-12-D-6001)...