* The US Senate passed HR 933 with a 73-26 roll call to fund DoD and the rest of the federal government until September 30, after considering a final batch of amendments. The bill goes back to the House today, and it looks like a done deal. Update: indeed, as the...
DID's Google Drive - we OD on DOD OCD so you don't have to We at Defense Industry Daily maintain a Google Drive repository filled with more than 2,000 painstakingly selected, renamed and labeled PDF/Word/PPT/XLS files focused on major defense programs and budgets. We...
* Senator Kelly Ayotte [R-NH] tried but failed to scrap MEADS funding (alternatively for termination or development) with an amendment to the Senate's continuing resolution/minibus HR 933 bill. The CR contains language at odds with the FY authorization law as well as...
* The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) examined 4 options [PDF] that should allow the Pentagon to remain within budget growth constraints set by the Budget Control Act once translated to constant dollars (i.e. once inflation has taken its toll). Their scenarios play...
* The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) research on trends in international arms transfers for 2012 puts China among the top 5 weapons exporters thanks to their sales to Pakistan. The top 5 importers, led by India, are all in Asia - which does...
Take with a whole salt shaker The UK's long-established International Institute of Strategic Studies (IISS) recently published a Military Balance 2013 report which makes some reasonable observations about the current state of global affairs, but unquestioning media...
Swedish AMV rollout(click to view full) In June 2009, Sweden's FMV defense procurement agency picked Finland's Patria Oyj for a EUR 240 million contract, to deliver 113 AMV (Armoured Modular Vehicle) wheeled Armored Personnel Carriers (APCs) to the Swedish Armed...
* As AeroVironment's latest quarterly results showed, smaller contractors face much more volatility than primes in the current budget environment. * The US Senate will return to the HR 933 CR/mini-omnibus bill on Monday. Despite moaning about amendments from the...
Dutch HNLMS Tromp(click to view full) As missile defense imperatives get stronger, and western defense budgets get weaker, one might expect both competition and cooperation to increase within this sector. That should be especially true around naval platforms, where...