Achzarit(click to view full) May 18/10: Small business qualifier Diesel Engineering, Inc. in Englewood Cliffs, NJ received a $20.8 million firm-fixed-price-contract for engine upgrade kits, to be installed in Israel's Achzarit heavy armored personnel carriers. The...
AH-6i test(click to view full) In October 2008, Boeing updated its AH-6J "Little Bird" Special Forces attack helicopter to create the AH-6i, an armed reconnaissance helicopter that seemed positioned to compete for Iraq's ARH requirement. At the time, Boeing Rotorcraft...
* Pentagon drafts new conflict of interest rules for contractors. * US Defense Secretary Gates' effort to cut defense spending could hurt stock prices of US defense firms. That sort of follows, doesn't it? * Learning from sponges to make glass that's very hard to...
The US Defense Intelligence Agency is managing the maximum $6.6 billion, multiple-award Solutions for the Information Technology Enterprise (SITE) contract, on behalf of a number of agencies in the USA. The goal is a single umbrella contract, whose terms support the...
AFRL LADAR image Navmar Applied Sciences Corp. in Warminster, PA is not the only firm to win "Laser Radar" related contracts, nor are they the only firm to invest in LADAR for various uses. But they have received a series of contracts dating back from 2000, and...
* President Obama proposes a 10-year, $80 billion plan to modernize the USA's nuclear arsenal, and comply with the recent arms reduction treaty that he signed with Russia. * US House Armed Services Committee Republicans unveil the beginnings of a party approach to...
TMI! That's what US military commanders are saying about the explosion of data being collected and processed (or not) by thousands of UAVs. Because UAVs provide valuable information, the US military has been asking for more and more of them to be sent to Iraq and...
M203 on M4 Carbine(click to view full) Airtronic USA, Inc. in Elk Grove Village, IL recently announced a 5-year, indefinite-delivery/ indefinite-quantity contract from US Army TACOM Rock Island Arsenal, IL. The firm will produce up to 50,000 M203 and M203A2 40mm...
* UK aerospace and defense stocks drive up London FTSE 100 index. * Former Russian air force chief says Russia is 25 to 30 years behind the US in develop air defenses. * Columnist Daniel Darling of The Faster Times considers European defense spending in the aftermath...