What's Plan B?(click to view full) Small business qualifier Skill Metric Machine & Tool, Inc. in Delray Beach, FL recently received a 5-year, maximum $48.5 million, indefinite-delivery/ indefinite-quantity contract for AM-2 metal matting accessory packages, in support...
Latest updates: Clarity from BAE. Spanish M109A5,Brite Star 2001(click to view full) In June 2009, Chile's formal request to buy a variety of artillery-related systems and equip a new mechanized artillery battalion was cleared by the US state Department, and allowed...
* Similarly to his predecessor Robert Gates, US SecDef Leon Panetta told NATO members that they would have to step up defense spending otherwise the alliance would "hollow out" [DOD transcript]. Meanwhile British defense secretary Liam Fox lambasted as duplicate...
AIM-9X test launch, F-18C(click for close-up) Raytheon's AIM-9X Block II would have made Top Gun a very short movie. It's the USA's most advanced short range air-air missile, capable of using its datalink, thrust vectoring maneuverability, and advanced imaging...
* After 15 years of pile-up, rising metal prices and clever thinking turned 30 million pounds of scrap at Thule AB, Greenland, into a full site cleanup plus $1 million. * Boeing has returned another E-4B national command and control aircraft to the USAF, after...
* The UK Ministry of Defence's Major Projects Review Board (MPRB) got to work back in June and the first results are in: The Valiant Jetty project is officially considered to be underperforming and has been put on the "Projects of Concern" list. * The Center for...
MH-6M's NASCAR visit(click to view full) US Special Operations Command's helicopters are some of its most important assets. The service will need new helicopters in the near future, but meanwhile, they're busy modernizing the helicopters they have. Sensor and...
In September 2011, The MITRE Corp. in Bedford, MA received a $394.2 million contract modification, exercising the 3rd option year for systems engineering and integration support for Air Force ceiling programs (892 staff-years) and Air Force non-ceiling programs (300...
On April 2/07, BB&T Capital Markets upgraded EDO Corporation to "buy," in part because they thought EDO was well positioned to win a part of the $200-$500 million Counter- Radio Controlled Improvised Explosive Device (RCIED) Electronic Warfare (CREW) contracts going...