* Changing the Rules: The UK government plans to rewrite the rules governing defense contracts. * Mexico's "Blog Del Narco" has stepped into a media void as the go-to publication for Cartel War reporting, used as a source - and a tool. Welcome to the blogging...
Shadow 200 in Iraq(click to view full) Local US military surveillance/strike capabilities have been growing with SecDef Robert Gates' strong support for more attention to the needs of the counterinsurgency fight. Surveillance is part of that, but it needs to be backed...
* DARPA's Prophecy project looks to stay a step ahead of virus evolution, something with strong public health relevance as well as defensive military uses. That's good, because the US State Department's new arms control compliance report shows that there is a lot we...
CH-53E with Humvee(click to view full) The Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. in Stratford, CT received an $118.9 million firm-fixed-price requirements contract modification, to provide spare parts and support for components of the H-53 helicopter. Work will be performed in...
USS Seawolf [SSN 21]into Guam(click to view full) On Oct 1/10, the Pentagon announced a $102.7 million contract modification to Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding, Inc. in Newport News, VA to support the US nuclear submarine fleet, from the SSN fast attack boats of the...
Pearl Harbor(click to view full) US Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) Hawaii in Pearl Harbor recently awarded a set of multiple award umbrella contracts for construction projects located primarily within Hawaiii. These are indefinite-delivery/...
* The Jerusalem Post gets a first-ever look into Israel's "Sky Crows" electronic warfare unit, even as the CSM reports that the sophisticated "Stuxnet" software worm may be of Israeli origin. Its target? Iran's Bushehr nuclear reactor. * The US Small Business...
* NSA's Cyber Center: US Army awards $1.2 billion contract to Balfour Beatty/DPR/Big-D joint venture to build a data center at Camp Williams, Utah, reportedly for the National Security Agency. * Financial Management?: The GAO tells a Senate panel DoD's financial...
In December 2005, the interference of American arms export restrictions within the huge F-35 program became so burdensome that they became a high-level diplomatic problem. Despite the promises of 2 successive American Presidents, the ITAR exemptions that Britain had...