F-22s for Australia?(click to view full) In their October 2006 article, "Rapped in the Raptor: why Australia must have the best," Australian newspaper The Age reported that: "[Recently] Retired RAAF air vice-marshal Peter Criss has put aside usual conventions to...
USS Hartford returns(click to view full) Now a single, consolidated contract; estimate is $92.1 million price tag. (April 28/10) On March 20/09, A collision between the improved Los Angeles Class sub USS Hartford [SSN 768], and the amphibious USS New Orleans [LPD-18]...
* US Senate is unlikely to take up the House-passed IMPROVE Act, which would reform the US defense acquisition process. * USAF C-130Hs dispatched to spray dispensants on the growing Gulf of Mexico oil slick, as it approaches critical shorelines. Too little, too late?...
RSN project concept(click to view full) The Applied Physics Laboratories at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA received a $120.4 million cost-plus-fixed-fee, indefinite-delivery/ indefinite-quantity task order contract for up to 657,115 staff hours. Multiple...
* USMC Gen. James Mattis: "Power Point makes us stupid" - including on the front lines. If you must use it, but don't want Microsoft to be worth a division or 2 to the enemy, "Preparing More Powerful Presentations" has some tips. * 40% of the 9,000 additional NATO...
AccessNet system General Dynamics C4 Systems in Columbia, MD received a ceiling $45.9 million indefinite-delivery/ indefinite-quantity contract from the US Marine Corps Systems Command for life cycle logistics for the AccessNet digital switching system and LongArm...
* NATO chief proposes common funding pool for NATO missions and country-specific specialization in major weapon system procurement. * US CSBA rips "flawed logic" [PDF] of USA's recent nuclear posture review. April 2010 backgrounders also include the related "Meeting...
(click to visit) Intelsat is a commercial satellite provider, who launches and maintains global coverage for its customers with over 50 satellites. One interesting wrinkle is a program that lets customers pay to host partial or full payloads on Intelsat's birds,...