From the US Department of State, which is busy with an anti-stimulus program of freezing defense-related exports to key allies and markets, while it conducts an indefinite bureaucratic "review" of those relationships: March 5/09: DS-4071: Notification of Initial...
Red flag to abull defense market As was the case in the communist Soviet Union, China's official military budget and real military budget are not the same thing. Many items are hidden under other ministries, or simply not reported truthfully in the absence of...
(click to visit) Guest article by Ian Cookson & Grant Thornton Corporate Finance LLC Aerospace component M&A activity remained strong in 2008, and was one of the best performing sectors, with the same number of transactions as the record set in 2007. Activity was...
Thales graphic(click to view full) Thales recently announced a 3-year, $460 million contract from Mexico City to install pervasive surveillance and monitoring systems, coupled to centralized control and rapid response. The system will process information from 8,080...
(click to visit) The proliferation of micro-satellites is just the start. USAF journals like High Frontier [5/1, PDF] are already talking about nano-satellites, or in civilian parlance "CubeSats." Their effects could be profound, and will be felt in many ways. San...
LCSS Screen, w. ranges(click to view full) The Government of Canada recently announced 2 major contracts to support the Canadian Forces' Land Command Support System (LCSS), worth C$ 525 million (currently about US$ 409 million). LCSS is is a full battlefield command...
RAAF C-130J, Afghanistan(click to view full) In March 2009, Australia's Defence Materiel Organisation (DMO) awarded a contract to EADS Eurocopter subsidiary Australian Aerospace to provide Through Life Support services for the RAAF's fleet of 12 C-130J and stretched...
UH-1N, Anbar, Iraq(click to view full) Bell Helicopter subsidiary Bell Aerospace Services Inc. (BellAero), just announced a multi-year sub-contract worth up to $173 million from PKL Services Inc of Poway, CA. The PKL, BellAero, and JK Hill team will provide selected...
This animated Flash presentation has been making the rounds lately. It shows the structural changes to the American defense procurement process since 1971, as 14 waves of iterative reforms have changed the defense procurement process. It is also available from the...