* Bloomberg's tracking of Pentagon awards of $6.5M and more shows another Y/Y drop in May, with a total of $13.7B vs. $19.4B last year. For the past 6 months, only April was above levels seen in 2013. Iraq * The Institute for the Study of War provides ongoing, very...
Saudi A330-MRTT(click to view full) In January 2008, EADS North America announced that The Royal Saudi Air Force will acquire 3 of EADS A330 Multi-role Tanker/Transports (MRTTs), equipped with both EADS centerline-mounted ARBS (advanced Air Refueling Boom System) for...
* Germany's Ministry of Economy and Energy published its 2013 report [PDF in German] on armament sales, which at €5.8B ($7.9B) were slightly above their 2008 record. The foreword by minister Sigmar Gabriel gave more prominence to his recent statements that there's...
* The UK's National Audit Office released sharp criticism of the government's decision to downsize the Army: "The MOD decision to reduce the size of the regular Army and increase the number of trained Army reserves was taken without appropriate testing of feasibility...
Aerospace Testing Alliance in Tullahoma, TN had a $213.4 million cost-plus award-fee option picked up for the operation, maintenance, information management, and support of Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) for FY 2006. AEDC, named for U.S. Air Force pioneer Gen. Henry “Hap” Arnold, bills itself as “The World’s Premier Flight Simulation Test Facility.”….
* Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki asked parliament to declare a state of emergency after insurgents from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) had taken control of Mosul, a large city in northern Iraq. US Biz Dev * The US Army's Program Manager for Soldier...
Pleiades 1B(click to view full) The United Arab Emirates' AED 3.4 billion (EUR 703 million/ $925 million) "Falcon Eye" optical observation satellites are meant to provide a wholly new capability to their military by 2018, and represented the most advanced optics...
* Airbus CEO Tom Enders in an interview with AFP: "I think that in the future our industry will have to work much more closely with these new high-tech companies [the Microsofts, Amazons, Facebooks, SpaceXs, Yahoos] if only because these guys are increasingly...
HMAS Sirius(click to view full) The Royal Australian Navy is on its way to fixing the crisis in its amphibious fleet, giving itself modernized FFG-7 and ANZAC Class frigates, and buying itself advanced new air defense destroyers. Without an adequate support fleet,...