* After the cremated remains of at least 274 fallen US service-members, and 1,762 other unidentified body parts, were unceremoniously thrown into a county landfill as waste, Tom Ricks says that "either the Air Force Secretary, its Chief of Staff, or both" need to...
Final updates: Deepwater officially done - updates from 2007-2011, as article closes. (click to view full) The US Coast Guard is currently operating vessels that date from the 1950s and 1960s, and a fleet-wide recapitalization is becoming an urgent priority given its...
In December 2010, the US Missile Defense Agency awarded Lockheed Martin Mission Systems and Sensors in Moorestown, NJ cost-plus-award-fee contract modification, with a total increased value of $184 million, "to allow for continued performance of future weapon system...
* The Center for the Study of Chinese Military Affairs released a report [PDF] on the Chinese Navy's capabilities and roles that concludes the PLAN is extending its reach and has initiated a serious C4ISR effort. * An MQ-9 Reaper operated by the USAF in the Seychelles...
* The Latest Defense AT&L [PDF] covers among other topics: contingency contracting (staying clear of mentioning the work of the now closed Commission on Wartime Contracting), the Afghan vendor base, critical path drag in project management, and collaboration between...
F310, Gulf of Aden(click to view full) In December 2011, Lockheed Martin Mission Systems and Sensors in Moorestown, NJ received a $19.8 million cost-plus-incentive-fee, fixed-fee contract to support Norway's Fridtjof Nansen frigates to July 2014. Exercising all of the...
* Is the FY12 defense authorization bill loaded with earmarks even though it's not supposed to? We'll see what actually comes out of conference in the final text of the bill sometime this week, possibly later today. * Lockheed Martin hopes to conclude F-35 LRIP lot 5...
Latest updates: 4 more, figures consistent with past orders, for... Australia? F117 Cutaway(click to magnify) United Technologies Corp. subsidiary Pratt & Whitney in East Hartford, CT produces the C-17 Globemaster III's 40,400 pound thrust F117-PW-100 engine, a...
Latest updates: SS Tapajo ready. S31 Tamoio(click to view full) The Marinha do Brazil's 4 diesel-electric Tupi Class submarines (1,440t U-209/1400 variant) and single 1,550t Tikuna Class (Improved Tupi) boat must suffice to patrol a very large ocean zone, along one of...