AH-64 Apachewith Arrowhead sensor(click to view full) Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control in Orlando, FL received a $46.2 million firm-fixed-price contract for the purchase of Arrowhead sensor systems for AH-64 Apache attack helicopter for several international...
* RAND Corp. adds to lessons learned from the 2006 war in Lebanon: "Military Capabilities for Hybrid War; Insights from the Israel Defense Forces in Lebanon and Gaza" [PDF] * Berkeley Lab's Molecular Foundry may have found a way to improve the quality of graphene...
Hesco, explained(click to view full) It's a surprisingly simple concept. Why ship walls, concrete, or even concrete barriers, when you can ship collapsible forms that can quickly be filled with sand or dirt by any untrained person? Why use sandbags with their inherent...
Private investment firm Cerberus Capital Management, LP has reached a $1.5 billion deal to buy the support and security contractor DynCorp International, including the assumption of debt. The purchase price would be $17.55 per share - a 49% premium to the April 9/10...
Refinery Associates of Texas, a small business qualifier in New Braunfels, TX, received a maximum $253.8 million fixed-price with economic price adjustment contract for naval distillate fuel. The fuel normally used in naval diesel engines is naval distillate fuel...
The Naval Sea Systems Command's (NAVSEA) Naval Surface Warfare Center in Indian Head, MD awarded 2 performance-based, indefinite-delivery/ indefinite-quantity, multiple-award, cost-plus-fixed-fee contracts worth up to $87.6 million to provide engineering and...
* Polish AF Tu-154M Lux crash: the political ripples in Poland, as crash theories swirl. The "black boxes" were recovered, and technical problems appear to have been ruled out early. * Financial crisis creating ripples of defense cuts and reorgnizations in Europe. But...
(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...
SSEE: Big and Bulky Argon ST in Fairfax, VA received a $36.9 million contract for low-rate initial production of the US Navy's Ship's Signal Exploitation Equipment (SSEE) Increment F system. The base contract also includes priced options to allow the government to...