Casspir Mk6/ MPV-I(click to view full) The global trend toward mine-resistant patrol vehicles actually added India back in the late 1990s, when it began to buy used South African Casspir vehicles. India ended up buying 165 Casspirs from 1999-2001, and they have seen...
* The US Senate Armed Services Committee will likely vote this afternoon on Chuck Hagel's nomination as Secretary of Defense. Republican senators denied as an unfounded rumor that they were considering walking out of the committee. * Senate Democrats will introduce a...
Special forces are even more reliant on excellent communications infrastructure, and on help desk support that can go the extra miles with them. On October 2005, IT consulting firm iGov Technologies, Inc. in McLean, VA received an indefinite delivery/ indefinite...
* The US GAO found that a new requirement to justify $20M+ sole-source contracts awarded under the 8(a) small business program had been poorly implemented by the services during FY2012. In any case the number and value of such contracts dramatically fell since about...
* US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta said the FY14 President Budget will not be submitted until the end of next month. It will include a 1% military pay raise (i.e. most likely lower than inflation) but is not going to be fully based on the baseline established by...
* House Armed Services Committee (HASC) Chairman Buck McKeon (R-CA), SASC Ranking Member Jim Inhofe (R-OK), and other allied Republican members of Congress introduced the Down Payment to Protect National Security Act of 2013 [PDF] as their way of preventing...
* US Army Chief of Staff Ray Odierno released a slidedeck [PDF] detailing the budget shortfall that will affect operations & maintenance for the rest of the fiscal year. Of course cramming a year worth of cuts into half the time is going to look bad. But the Budget...
* The UK' House of Commons' Defence Committee published a report [PDF] on defence acquisition that raises a long list of concerns. The Ministry of Defence preempted one of them last week by publishing its Equipment Plan, just as the Committee was finalizing its...
* German defense minister Thomas de Maizière confirmed that his country would seek armed UAVs. In response to earlier leaks in the press, some German politicians had voiced strong opposition to the Bundeswehr's intent to use UCAVs, on legal and...