* GAO reports: DoD is having trouble counting [PDF] all of its service contractors; Defense Business Transformation initiative [PDF] has flaws; and ballistic missile defense plan for Europe has unrealistic cost estimates [PDF]. * Is Pentagon chief Robert Gates...
* Defense budget cuts split HASC Republicans between hawks and Tea Partiers. * With a bevy of batteries weighing soldiers down, MIT's research into mini gas turbines in a silicon chip promises a possible way out. * US Army's Dugway Proving Ground, which stores and...
* General Dynamics sees a 19% jump in 4th quarter earnings, fueled for demand for military vehicles and ships. * Bad News: Boeing's net income and revenues drop 8% for the 4th quarter [PDF], due in part to cuts in defense programs. * New HASC Chairman Howard McKeon...
Latest updates: BAE's PAS-13 thermal sight to be part of the fire control system. Kandahar PRT(click to view full) The infantry soldier is the center of gravity in current wars, and improvements to the individual soldier's equipment and firepower overmatch often...
* Former Northrop Grumman engineer Noshir Gowadia gets 32 years in prison for assisting China in developing a low-signature cruise missile exhaust system and providing classified information on the B-2 Spirit bomber. * When Aviation Week is writing editorials called...
RAF Tornado &Enhanced Paveway(click to view full) In late January 2011, Raytheon announced a $475 million contract with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for its Paveway family of precision-guided munitions. These Paveway II and Paveway III kits transform ordinary bombs...
* Lockheed Martin agrees to pay $2 million to settle a DoJ lawsuit accusing the company, as well as partners SAIC and AES, of conspiring with former government employees Stephen Adamec and Robert Knesel to ensure the 3 companies were awarded a $115M contract in 2004...
On Jan 21/11, Us Navy Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command in San Diego, CA announced a set of 4 multiple-award contracts to install and certify Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) systems. These...
* Russian Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov said that he wants to replace Russia's iconic Kalashnikov assault rifles and Dragunov SVD sniper rifles, possibly with foreign made weapons. Unsurprisingly, controversy ensues. Media mistake alert: current Kalashnikovs in...