Amazonas(click to view full) As 2011 came to a close, Brazil's buy of 3 in-stock Offshore Patrol Vessels from BAE, with an option to license-build 5 more, had the potential to cast wide ripples. Brazil has very extensive coastal responsibilities, a sizable Marine...
* Following an audit by the Pentagon's Inspector General, the US Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) is seeking a refund from Boeing for excessive charges on spare parts. * A judge from a US District Court in Ohio ruled against [PDF] United Technologies in a long-standing...
* President Obama announced the US will try to talk the Taliban - via an office the insurgents set in Qatar - into accepting "an Afghan constitution that renounces ties with al Qaeda, ends violence and is committed to the protection of women and minorities in the...
* The US-China Economic and Security Review Commission lists [PDF] reported Chinese UAV projects, and predicts that the USA's own policies will give China the export opening they need. China may not be ready immediately, but note that the Saudis are already looking...
* The US DoD Comptroller published a report [PDF] on the financial impact of sequestration on DoD's discretionary budget authority in Fiscal Year 2013. That boils down -$20.3B for Personnel, -$9..8B for Operations & Maintenance, -$6B in procurement, and -$820M in...
DoD logistics post-sequester: a self-assessment Ed. note: we continue our coverage of last week's NDIA's National Logistics Forum. Lt. Gen. Brooks L. Bash, Director for Logistics at the Joint Staff, centered his presentation on the constraints that logistics has and...
* Tight budgets mean consolidation, so we present Bain Insights on "The renaissance in mergers and acquisitions: How to make your deals successful". Scale, or scope? * "The Private-Intelligence Boom, by the Numbers." The leftist Mother Jones magazine highlights the...
Not the British soccer player Ed. note: This entry is part of DID's coverage of the NDIA's National Logistics Forum 2013. In his keynote, Dale Bennett, EVP of Mission Systems and Training at Lockheed Martin, listed a few things DoD and industry can do to get better...
bienvenido en Miami, VA Ed. note: This entry is part of DID's coverage of the NDIA's National Logistics Forum 2013. Lou Kratz, Chairman of NDIA Logistics Management Division and a Vice President of Logistics and Sustainment at Lockheed Martin, introduced the event...