Latest updates: $20M for fleet engineering support. KC-135 & RNoAF F-16, Afghanistan(click to view full) While Boeing and EADS duke it out for the USA's $20-30 billion KC-X order of about 175 aerial tankers with secondary cargo capacity, the existing KC-135 fleet...
* Cybercash: DoD's Cyber Command to fuel 9.1% annual growth in federal government cybersecurity spending, predicts INPUT. * And the number 1 reason...: Heritage Foundation's James Carafano details the top 10 reasons why the US defense budget should not be cut. *...
* Number 1: BAE Systems tops money list of UK Ministry of Defence's suppliers, receiving close to GBP 4 billion (about $6.25B) in financial year 2009/10. * Hybrid birds: Frost & Sullivan predicts that more military satellite programs will follow the UK Skynet 5 model,...
* Bad news, good news: While defense budgets for major weapon systems are facing cuts, stockcall.com believes spending will increase on UAV programs, missile defense, and cybersecurity. * Arms race: Russian President Medvedev warns that a joint Russian/ European...
C-17 sim, Dover AFB(click to view full) In November 2010, L-3 Communications in Arlington, TX won a $976.7 million service contract for the C-17 Globemaster III heavy aerial transport fleet's aircraft training system. Work will include instruction, contractor...
Chinese Yun-8(click to view full) Venezuelan Maj. Gen. Jorge Oropeza is quoted as saying that his country is in negotiations with China to buy 10-12 Shaanxi Y-8 tactical transport aircraft, and hopes they will be delivered before the end of 2011. Derived from the...
Saab recently anounced a SEK 116 million (about $16.6 million) coastal surveillance contract in India, which has focused much more intently on this area since the Mumbai terror attack from Pakistan. India is pursuing a number of avenues, from security procedures and...
5.56mm Mk46 MOD1(click to view full) FN Manufacturing in Columbia, SC received an $11.5 million firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for the MK46 MOD1 lightweight machine gun and MK48 MOD1 lightweight machine gun, along with spare and...
* Afghan poppy production down by half, creating heroin shortages on Britain's streets. Pity. That pleospora papaveracea sure is potent. Nothing like having a lot of Taliban foreigners traipsing through the poppy fields, to ensure that outbreaks spread... * Closing...