Early Iridium poster(click to view full) In June 2009, Iridium Government Services in Tempe, AZ received a contract to begin providing Netted Iridium satellite communication system to front line Marines. The program was developed to enable Marines deployed inland to...
* Just how deep is the US Navy's budget crisis? Very deep, and it will soon spread to the other services. In the Navy's case, the Congressional Budget Office says it's underestimating the total cost of its 30-year shipbuilding plan by nearly 20%. That's actually...
The US Missile Defense Agency (MDA) recently announced the competitive award of 5 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contracts for advisory and assistance services, under Small Business Set-Aside Request for Proposal HQ0147-09-R-0001. Under this 5-year $861.1...
* Pakistan's military wants more F-16s, plus Chinese submarines to go with its new French boats, and a joint submarine development venture. These plans are all being made against a backdrop of a serious domestic insurgency and widespread flooding damage, which have...
HH-60G, Afghanistan(click to view full) March 8/11: Raytheon announces a $42 million USAF contract for additional AN/AAQ-29A day/night surveillance and targeting turrets. They'll be installed in the US Air Force's HH-60G Pave Hawk combat search and rescue helicopters,...
* USMC could lose up to a 3rd of its acquisition money, $563 million, under a FY 2011 continuing resolution, Commandant Gen. James Amos tells Senate Armed Services Committee. * Former L-3 engineer Sixing "Steve" Liu faces up to 20 years in prison on charges of...
(c) DJ Elliott(click to view full) DJ Elliott is a retired USN Intelligence Specialist (22 years active duty) who has been analyzing and writing on Iraqi Security Forces developments since 2006. His Iraqi Security Forces Order of Battle is an open-source compilation...
Orbital MRT launch(click to view full) March 8/11: The US Missile Defense Agency's issues Orbital Sciences Corp. a $217.1 million firm-fixed-price contract with provisions for fixed-price incentive, cost-plus-award-fee, cost-plus-incentive-fee, cost-plus-fixed-fee,...
* More UK defense cuts this year, says Defence Equipment Minister Peter Luff. * North Korea attacks South Korean government computers. * The Pentagon's quasi-decoy blimps idea is a good one. * The Sultanate of Brunei, in the Indonesian archipelago, has finally...