Turkish M-60T Sabra(click to view larger) Global weapon sales are always subject to political influences. For many years, Turkey and Israel have maintained a close defense relationship that extended to training in Turkey and large procurement deals. Turkey's $688...
The Southwest Regional Maintenance Center in San Diego, CA awarded 6 firm-fixed-price multiple award 5-year term contracts to provide sheet metal repair and fabrication services - such as repairs to partitions, ductwork, and piping - onboard US Navy ships and other...
Celebrate Good Times...(click to view larger) Bulova Technologies in Tampa, FL received a contract worth up to $41.2 million to supply pyrotechnics to the US Army. The word pyrotechnics comes from the Greek for fireworks. The US military, however, uses pyrotechnics...
The Naval Sea Systems Command's (NAVSEA) Naval Surface Warfare Center awarded 6 contracts worth up to $475 million to support the center's Alterations Installation Team (AIT) in their work upgrading hull, mechanical, electrical, and electronic (HME&E) systems on ships...
A400M: The real target?(click to view full) From "C-130J Acquisition Program Restructured": "[The C-130J Hercules] has since been deployed into theater by the USAF, where its vastly improved performance in "hot and high" environments has come in very handy. Unlike the...
Open Up and Say Ahh! GE Inspection Technologies in Skaneateles, NY won a $22.7 million firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/ indefinite-quantity contract from the US Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD) for the procurement of up to 1,600 common video...
Portsmouth Naval Shipyard(click to view full) Cianbro Corp. in Pittsfield, ME won a $19.5 million firm-fixed-price contract to repair the caisson (gate) and the sill at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard's Drydock 2 facility. Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, 1 of 4 remaining naval...
C-17, waiting(click to view full) A Washington think-tank has gone so far as to call the planned cancellation of C-17 heavy transport aircraft production "The Dumbest Weapons Decision of the Decade." With heavy usage that is accumulating fatigue hours far faster than...
Big, Hairy, and Audacious(click to view larger) The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) wants to take research on nitride-based electronic devices and integrated circuits - used in tactical radio systems, phased array radar, and satellite communication -...