* A Mexican drug operation appears to have operationalized cross-border drug smuggling with helicopter drones. One device - what appears to be a DJI SPreadwings S900 Multi-rotor System, which retails for $1,400 - fell into a Tijuana parking lot after being loaded with...
Preveze Class(click to view larger) In 2006, the Turkish SSM procurement agency issued a request for information (RFI) for 4 more diesel-electric submarines. That RFI became an RFP for 6 diesel-electric submarines with air-independent propulsion systems, to replace...
It may yet be a decade or two before the U.S. has an appetite for another "generation" increment for its fighters, but Boeing and Northrop Grumman are hungry now. Northrop is touting its new design teams dedicated to generating capabilities for the Navy and Air Forces...
* Military bases are often home to environmental disasters, and mitigation costs are significant enough today that it exerts a real and behavior-changing influence on the U.S. military. But the liabilities are not considered "strict liabilities" as federal Superfund...
* The Government Accountability Office, fielding a protest by a would-be contractor who couldn't find a solicitation due to a certain field not having been filled out in the FedBizOpps database, sided with the Veterans Administration in holding that it is the vendors...
Latest update: Critical Design Review, milestone schedule. Looking a little dated(click to view full) In March 2010 the Navy awarded an $83 million contract for e-CASS development, production and testing. The AN/USM-636(V) Consolidated Automated Support System (CASS)...
* Russian development of a new cruise missile and submarine forays into NATO waters have elicited complaints from Washington Russia has violated a key arms control agreement (the INF Treaty), and could cause the U.S. to redeploy cruise missiles in Europe. Russia has...
* The Commander of U.S. Army forces in Europe, Lt Gen Ben Hodges, is quoted as revealing the analysis that Russia currently can't threaten more than one Ukraine-level conflict at once without significant pre-mobilization that would warn a victim country and allies,...
* Having vacillated back and forth, the Pentagon will reportedly now ask for both its cake and to eat it too in the 2016 budget, reversing the decision to mothball the U-2 spy plane program, but also to start research and design work (about $150 million over three...