(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...
Science Applications International Corp. received a task order from the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR) to provide modeling, simulation, and analytically based warfare analysis support to the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations' (OPNAV) Assessment...
The Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) Southwest awarded indefinite-delivery/ indefinite-quantity multiple award design-build construction contracts to 4 small business qualifiers for airfield paving and heavy duty paving for military operations vehicles at...
MV-22 Osprey: JATAS Ready?(click to view full) The US Navy is looking to improve protection of Navy and Marine Corps tilt-rotor aircraft and helicopters from missiles and rocket-propelled grenades through development of the Joint and Allied Threat Awareness System...
B-52H and B-17:only as old as I feel...(click to view full) In June 2009, the US Air Force is replaced Boeing's existing fleet support contract for the USA's B-52 heavy bomber fleet, with a 10-year, $750 million firm-fixed-price Engineering Sustainment Program (ESP)...
AF DCGS The US Air Force awarded General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems a 5-year $60 million contract to provide network management and mission operations support to the 480th Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) Wing. General Dynamics will...
Lot of mouths to feed(click to view full) Shamrock Foods in Commerce City, CO received a maximum $9.5 million firm fixed price, indefinite-quantity contract modification for full-line food distribution services to US military facilities in Colorado and Wyoming. The...
Sun Tzu The great Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu observed, "If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles." This appears to the thinking behind the US Defense Advanced Research Agency's (DARPA) new National Cyber Range...
AGM-129A loaded on a B-52at Minot Air Force Base, ND(click to view full) In 2007, a B-52 carried 6 unsecured nuclear-tipped AGM-129 ACM cruise missiles from Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota to Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana. The nuclear warheads were...