MkV Patrol Boat & RHIB(click to view full) United States Marine in Gulfport, MS received a $61.6 million firm-fixed-price contract for detail design and construction of 10 Mark V (90' MKV) patrol boats for the Kuwaiti Navy under the Foreign Military Sales (FMS)...
DARPA's Robust Surface Navigation (RSN) program will allow American warfighters to geo-locate and navigate effectively when GPS is unavailable due to hostile action (e.g. jamming) or blockage by structures and foliage. After successfully completed Phase 1, Argon ST in...
HET w. M1 tank(click to view full) DRS Sustainment Systems, a unit of DRS Technologies, received a $103.9 million firm-fixed-price contract for 274 M1000 heavy equipment transporter semitrailers. DRS Sustainment will perform the work at its facility in Saint Louis,...
Iveco LMV(click to view full) Austria has been a neutral power since World War 2, but contingents from its small armed forces are sometimes made available for international deployment. The growing realization that blast resistant vehicles are an essential piece of...
Boeing's subsidiary McDonnell Douglas in St. Louis, MO received a $32.4 million modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract (N00019-03-C-0055) to manufacture, test, and deliver 23 reconfigurable transportable consolidated automated support systems...
On March 31/09, The Australian ran a investigative feature titled "Our defenceless force," and the related "Military not ready for war as fighter jets, choppers and submarines unfit for frontline." The articles were more measured than their titles might suggest, but...
Honor & Reflect(click to view full) Monday, May 25th is Memorial Day in the USA. DID honors those who have given all of their tomorrows in American military service; we will not be publishing. Readers are urged to peruse the US Department of Defense's Memorial Day...
Scramjets explained(click to view full) Australia's Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO) and the United States Air Force have signed an agreement to advance research into hypersonic (Mach 5 or higher) flight. The 8-year program has been established as a...
AGM-158 JASSM(click to view full) Lockheed Martin's AGM-158 Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile (JASSM) was intended as a stealthy, inexpensive cruise missile that would let American aircraft attack well-defended targets - without putting themselves in the...