ANA soldiers(click to view full) Operations in Afghanistan have created operational and political friction among NATO allies due to some members who will not commit their forces to combat situations, forces not delivered as promised, and shortages of critical assets...
CH-146 Griffon(click to view full) In 2005 Canada was facing a complete lack of integrated in-theater helicopter support. Worse, the Canadian Forces faced an equally complete lack of options. Canada had never operated attack helicopters, so there were none to be had....
Trident Technology Solutions, of Fairfax, VA received a maximum $49.9 million indefinite-delivery/ indefinite-quantity contract. Trident will design an Information Sharing Environment (ISE) for the Air Force, Department of Defense (DoD), Department of Homeland...
W. M. Jordan in Newport News, VA won a $95.9 million contract to design- and build special operations forces facilities at Naval Air Station Oceana's Dam Neck Annex in Virginia Beach, VA. This project will provides consolidated and efficiently configured command...
THEL/Skyguard concept Textron Defense Systems in Wilmington, MA recently received an initial $3.17 million increment of a $21.3 million "other transaction". They'll provide protoypes for phase 2 of the High Energy Liquid Laser (HELL) Area Defense System. Work will be...
Small, disadvantaged business qualifier Bering Straits Information Technology, LLC in Anchorage, AK received a maximum $5.8 million firm fixed price, total set aside, 8(a) Alaskan Native sole-source contract. they will to provide all labor and staff to help the...
McTech Corp. in North Kansas City, MO won an $8 million firm-fixed price contract for a child development center at Fort Riley, KS. Military families have the same child care needs as other families, and part of the US military's ongoing $50+ billion construction...
RBS-70, Australian Navy(click to view full) In June 2006, Australia's former Minister of Defence Brendan Nelson released the Defence Capability Plan (DCP) 2006-16, which outlined more than A$ 51 billion of planned capital equipment proposals. At the time, one of the...
Hermes 450(click to view full) Elbit Systems' Hermes 450 is classed as a MALE (Medium Altitude, Long Endurance) UAV, though it's smaller than competitors like General Atomics' MQ-1 Predator and Israel Aerospace Industries' Heron. The Hermes 450 is best known for...