Salvageable? The bill to fix the USS Miami SSN after it caught fire last month could amount to $400M. Another fire was reported this morning but thankfully it turned out to be a false alarm. Mike Petters, President and CEO of Huntington Ingalls Industries answers a...
Papa's Got a Brand New Block USAF B-1B Lancers are getting a bunch of upgrades within Sustainment-Block 16 including MIDS LVT-1. This follows earlier hardware and software upgrades done in 2006/07. As NATO plans its withdrawal from Afghanistan - Pakistani GLOCs open...
* US SecDef Leon Panetta was in Cam Ranh Bay in southern Vietnam yesterday, an attractive deepwater spot where an American airbase used to be located, followed by a large Soviet naval base. Relationships between the US and Vietnam have been thawing for years (May 2012...
* The GAO reviewed efforts from the US Army and Marine Corps to determine what they will do in the future with their nonstandard (i.e. rapidly fielded) equipment. One question: what to do with MRAPs? * The GAO also looked at DoD's long term maintenance contracts and...
* Northrop Grumman is pitching a fleet of 3 to 5 modified Global Hawks Block 30s to Canada. The call it "Polar Hawk". It's a good thing Microsoft is not in charge of their branding: "Global Hawk Cold Proof Starter Edition" doesn't have the same ring to it. * RAND came...
M-ATV w. Q-Net(click to view full) No vehicle "cage armor" provides 100% protection, but even 50% effectiveness will save lives. QinetiQ's Q-Net uses high-tech fabrics to replace metal cage armor, and protect against incoming rockets. In May 2012, QinetiQ North...
* Rafael is trying to increase the range of its Iron Dome rocket shields. The US plans to provide military aid to Israel to buy more of these counter-rocket systems, though so far numbers fluctuate widely between the Administration, the House and the Senate. * House...
Latest updates: Major deal adds HIOS segment to 2015. UK C-130 C5(click to view full) In mid-2006 the UK MoD added another platform to the expanding list of long-term, performance-based, public-private, "contracting for availability" maintenance solutions for...
NanoSAR on ScanEagle(click to view full) In May 2012, ImSAR, L.L.C. in Salem, UT received a $24 million firm-fixed-price and cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to build, test, and assess a lightweight ultra wide band synthetic aperture (ground-looking) radar for use on...