You're coming where? Verizon Business Network Services Inc. in Ashburn, VA won a $2.5 billion under the firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/ indefinite-quantity Defense Information Systems Network (DISN) transmission services - Pacific II (DTS-P II) contract. In...
Begun in 2001, IDEX in the United Arab Emirates has become the Middle East's biggest defense show. The UAE is a significant buyer in its own right, as illustrated in "UAE Announces Deals at IDEX 2007," which covered a range of deals for advanced aerial tankers,...
F101 testing, AEDC(click to view full) General Electric Aircraft Engines of Cincinnati, OH recently received an estimated $214.9 million modification to a firm-fixed price contract. The contract will take care of GE sole source spares for its F101, F110, and F118...
ASRAAM on RAAF F/A-18A(click to view full) Key advances have been made in short-range air-to-air missiles and work well in combination with helmet-mounted sights. The combination of new wide-angle 'staring' seekers, exponential growth in onboard computer processing,...
VH-3D (top), VH-60N(click to view full) P2P Intelligence firm Tiversa claims that in Oct/Nov 2008, it traced a file that contains details regarding the VH-60N Presidential Helicopter's CAAS avionics architecture, and some program financial data, on public-access...
Worker Safety isn't often given much thought outside the companies who build defense technologies. The dangers may not be as obvious as those facing skyscraper construction crews, but the nature of these technologies can create challenges in their own right. The US...
MV-22, landing(click to view full) March 2/09: GE Aviation Systems, LLC in Grand Rapids, MI received a $12.1 million ceiling-priced indefinite-delivery/ indefinite-quantity contract for aircraft recorders. The order includes 27 Crash Survivable Memory Units (CSMU) for...
SSBN Vanguard Class(click to view larger) Britain's 16,000t Vanguard Class nuclear missile submarine HMS Vigilant (S30) has been moved into Plymouth for a GBP 300 million (currently $422 million) overhaul that will take about 42 months to complete. At it's peak, it's...
Spike components(click to view full) In March 2009, Forecast International relayed a report from Chile's El Mercurio newspaper, which reports that Peru has signed $73 million in contracts for 488 Israeli and Russian anti-tank missiles to equip its armed forces,...