A 2004 study by the Satellite Industry Association found that 80% of all US military satellite communication during the 2003 US invasion of Iraq was carried on commercial satellites. Then-US assistant secretary of defense for networks and information integration, John...
M1130 Stryker MC(click to view full) GM General Dynamics Land Systems Defense Group LLC in Sterling Heights, MI received a $176.2 million firm-fixed-price contract for 103 Stryker vehicles. Stryker is a family of 8x8 wheeled armored combat vehicles that can travel at...
M142 HIMARS(click to view full) HIMARS launcher order goes through. (Feb 19/10) In September 2009, long-time US Middle East ally Jordan submitted an impressive wish list of weapons for its armed forces to the US Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA). The list...
* BAE Systems posts $105 million net loss for 2009 as a result of regulatory penalties, lost US DoD business. * Were fire support restrictions responsible for the USMC/ANA casualties at Ganjal? NY Times says yes. Official report says the officers who thought so may...
US Army HR training(click to expand) With over a half million US soldiers in uniform, the US Army has the formidable task of providing human resources (HR) services to all of them. To help with this massive HR requirement, the Army uses contractors. The primary office...
RAF Eurofighter(click to view full) In February 2009, SELEX Galileo announced a GBP 19 million contract from the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) to develop and produce an initial Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) Radar prototype. After rigorous ground and...
Submarines with improving stealth and attack capability - particularly modern diesel attack submarines - are proliferating worldwide. Locating these relatively inexpensive but extremely quiet boats presents a challenge to the US Navy, then Chief of Naval Operations...
* US DoD to require vendors to meet tougher cybersecurity standards. * Cyberattack simulation highlights infrastructure, leadership gaps. What keeps cybersecurity specialists up at night? * Pentagon cites over 100 cyber breaches at US defense contractors and agencies....
Telesurgery using MC4(click to view larger) Using paper medical records in military hospitals and mobile medical units can be impractical at best. Doctors and nurses have to flip through paper-based charts to review patient histories in time-pressure situations that...