* US Supreme Court throws out lower court ruling that would have required Boeing and General Dynamics to repay $3 billion to the federal government for the cancelled A-12 Avenger fighter program. * Does SpaceX have lessons to teach NASA? After it spends under $400...
* Die Welt reports that Iran & Venezuela are collaborating on a hardened underground silo complex for Shebab-3 medium range ballistic missiles, on the Paraguana peninsula above Coro, Venezuela. * A leaked UN report says Iran and North Korea are exchanging ballistic...
* Global defense budget is expected to reach $1.1 trillion in 2012, according to ASDReports.com * Lockheed Martin gets $45.3 million order to upgrade 22 Finnish Army M270 multiple launch rocket systems, enabling them to fire GPS-guided munitions. * BAE Systems gets...
AN/TPS-77 Radar Aug 5/13: The US DSCA announces Iraq's request for an Integrated Air Defense system worth up to $2.4 billion, and seems to confirm that the radars in question were AN/TPS-77s. May 9/11: Lockheed Martin Corp., Lockheed Martin MS2 Tactical Systems in...
* US Army Corp of Engineers unveils $5 billion Civil Works plan for FY 2011. * Nearly 1,000 workers at 3 defense contractors in the Washington, DC area - General Dynamics, Lockheed Martin, and Northrop Grumman - are being laid off this year, the Washington Examiner...
LCR2020(click to view full) Coastal surveillance and "maritime domain awareness" are growing priorities for nations who wish to secure control of their borders against threats ranging from drug smuggling, to illegal immigration, to terrorist infiltration. Recent...
* The US Army may have to spend at least $441 million to replenish prepositioned equipment to meet combatant command planning requirements, part of the $4.5 billion needed to fully reconstitute the Army's prepositioned stocks, the GAO says. * Russian President Dmitry...
* UK government steps forward with the 1st explicit covenant, stating the moral obligation which exists between the British nation, the Government and the Armed Forces. See full document, and a companion document discusses the steps they're taking to turn its...
Full Recon-III kit(click to view larger) May 12/11: The US Defense Security Cooperation Agency announces [PDF] Saudi Arabia's formal request on behalf of its army to buy over $300 million in night vision equipment. The DSCA release specifically mentions "defense and...