IAF MiG-29, top view(click to view full) Until the arrival of the SU-30MKs and SU-30MKIs, India's MiG-29 fleet was its primary counter to Pakistan's F-16s. That fleet had a number of problems, the most prominent of which was a low readiness rate given the Russians'...
Corporation Articles
Rizzani de Eccher to Build $44.8M Facility at Al Udeid Air Base Qatar
Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar(click to view full) Rizzani de Eccher (USA) in Miami Beach, FL won a $44.8 million firm-fixed-price contract for the design and construction of a facility replacement at Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar. The company, which is a unit of Italian...
Up to $69.3M to Balfour Beatty for Naval Correctional Facility in Hampton Roads
Balfour Beatty Construction in Fairfax, VA won a $61.6 million firm-fixed-price contract for the design and construction of a joint regional correctional facility complex at Naval Support Activity Northwest Annex in Hampton Roads, VA. The new level II, medium security...
Up to $100M to Korte for US Army Ranger Facility at Fort Lewis
US Army Rangers in Iraq(click to view full) The Korte Co. in St. Louis, MO won a $24.2 million firm-fixed-price construction contract for the construction of a 2-story standard design company operations facility for the US Army Ranger Support Company and Headquarters...
US Troops Have URGENT Need for Intel in Urban Warfare
BAE Systems National Security Solutions in Burlington, MA received a $7 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to provide support to the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's Urban Reasoning and Geospatial Exploitation Technology (URGENT) Phase II Program. The...
Wyle to Support USAF Space Innovation and Development Center
Wyle Information Systems in McLean, VA received a $13.9 million indefinite delivery/ indefinite quantity contract modification to provide technical services and space operations support to the Space Innovation and Development Center located at Schriever Air Force Base...
USA Contracts Resupply Ship for Diego Garcia for up to $31.4M
Sealift in Oyster Bay, NY received a $7.6 million firm-fixed-price contract for a 1-year time charter of a vessel, which will be US-flagged upon delivery to the US government. The ship's primary mission will be to resupply US armed services personnel on Diego Garcia...
Up to $168.2M to Alutiiq-Melle for China Lake Support Services
Naval Air Weapons StationChina Lake(click to view full) Small business qualifier Alutiiq-Melle in Anchorage, Alaska, won a $15.7 million firm-fixed price, indefinite-delivery/ indefinite-quantity contract for base operating support services at the US Naval Air Weapons...
Hardware Standards and Virtualization: 2 Summer 2009 Snapshots
Military Embedded Systems magazine recently covered a couple of industry trends worth noting, in a pervasive but frequently overlooked area of military procurement. Despite OpenVPX's somewhat rocky journey to replace VME, one area is continued progress toward...

