(Old) NORAD Opcenter Buried deep beneath Cheyenne Mountain in Colorado, the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) has monitored the skies above North America for more than 50 years. During the height of the Cold War, NORAD was the US and Canada's early...
* Forecast International: Gulf States will continue to drive Middle Eastern defense spending. See also Documental's 2008 forecast. * A Greener American Quadrennial Defense Review? * From offshoring, to the business case for "backshoring" manufacturing. * Australia's...
PNP Satellite Concept(click to view full) The era of the huge military satellite programs that cost tens of billions of dollars appears to be over. At least as far as the US Congress is concerned. Last year, lawmakers shut down the $20 billion plus Transformational...
USAF F-16s, Iraq(click to view full) Dynamics Research Corp. (DRC) in Andover, MA received a task order valued at $13.9 million under the DoD's Logistics, Maintenance and Supply Support (LMSS) contract to support the F-16 System Program Office in the Aeronautical...
Tomahawk LaunchFrom USS Farragut(click to view full) Raytheon Co. in Tucson, AZ received a $202.7 million modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract for procurement of 196 FY 2010 Tomahawk Block IV all-up-round (AUR) missiles. The Tomahawk AUR...
US military construction money usually flows out from Washington, DC, to various parts of the country and the world. The amounts are often large and can have a major impact on a community's economy. However, there has been a growing trend for that same money to go...
T-AOE-6 & CG-72(click to view full) When US Navy carrier battle groups are rapidly deployed to hot spots, they need supply ships fast enough to keep up with them. That is the purpose of the US Military Sealift Command's T-AOE-6-class fast combat support ship. The...
TWT, conceptual Traveling wave tube (TWT) amplifiers are used to amplify radio signals to high power. They are commonly used by the US military in satellite transponders, radar, and electronic warfare systems. The US Navy uses the TWT ampliers for electronic...
Reuters reports that draft FY 2011 budget documents show the Pentagon targeting at least 7 programs for cancellation. Nothing is final yet, and the Pentagon will not comment, but here's the rundown. Two of those programs are familiar. One is the F-35's...