Defense top contractors compared Defense Industry Daily surveyed more than 400 executives, asking them their opinions on the top defense contractors based both on their personal experiences and general impressions. The results show that defense contractors on average...
De Gaulle battlegroup(click to view full) In late 2012, DCNS signed an EUR 221 million contract with the French Navy's Fleet Support Service (SSF) for another 4 years of support services to France's lone aircraft carrier, the nuclear-powered FS Charles de Gaulle [R...
Last before Flight III The US Navy commissioned USS Michael Murphy (DDG 112) which will be homeported in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Before the Navy restructured its surface combatant plans in 2009, the destroyer was expected to be the last of the Arleigh Burke class. John...
A single plant, dating from World War 2, still provides almost all of the US military's small arms ammunition (up to 12.7mm). The Lake City Army Ammunition Plant in Missouri has been operated by ATK for a long time, and was the USA's only facility until recently....
* The Pentagon has paid $188M in container detention fees that went back to 2006 in just the past few months, according to USA Today. Minimizing these fees is much more complicated than the article makes it out to be. Of course rent-to-own costs more than outright...
MRBM target launch(click to view full) The Pacific Missile Range Facility (PMRF) is the world's largest instrumented testing and training missile range, located on the far Hawaiian islands of Kaua'i and Ni'hau. The Barking Sands shore facility used to belong to Kekaha...
* SASC Ranking Member Senator McCain [R-AZ] wrote to SecDef Panetta that by his calculations (which he did not provide), it could cost DoD $4B to comply with Labor/OMB guidance relative to WARN Act liabilities. On the White House's position that contractors don't have...
GIG concept In June 2012, Lockheed Martin's Information Systems & Global Solutions Division in Manassas, VA won a competition, transferring the keystone GSM-O IT services contract away from SAIC, a 15-year incumbent. GSM-O pays for the worldwide support services...
* The Pentagon continues to pretend it is not planning for sequestration. Showing their newfound social media savvy, the Department even created a Facebook community for that. * Congressional Republicans are apoplectic to have been outmaneuvered - at last for now - by...