FBCB2 in Stryker(click to view full) Feb 23/09: Northrop Grumman announces that the U.S. Army has increased the ceiling for its Force XXI Battle Command, Brigade and Below (FBCB2 - and see video) contract by $574 million. Under this contract modification, Northrop...
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Norway Orders Sting Ray Torpedoes
Sting Ray concept(click to view full) BAE recently announced that the Norwegian Defence Logistics Organisation has selected BAE Systems Sting Ray MOD 1 lightweight torpedo for its Norwegian Antisubmarine Torpedo (NAT) program following an international competition,...
Ireland Orders Mine-Resistant Vehicles
RG-32M(click to view full) The Republic of Ireland is a neutral power with a small armed forces, whose equipment is more suited to policing than war. Eire's troops do deploy abroad on UN missions, however, where more protection and firepower are needed. French...
SSOT Spotter Scopes to Replace USMC’s M49s
USMC Sniper Team,Cobra Gold 2000(click to view full) Small business qualifier Horus Vision LLC in San Bruno, CA received a not-to-exceed $49 million, 5-year firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/ indefinite-quantity contract for Scout Sniper Observation Telescopes...
Sharpen Yourself: Technical Presentations and the A-E Structure
(click to view full) Power Point presentations. They're ubiquitously common, and often criticized for dumbing down discussion within industry and the military. There's some truth to that assertion, in part because most people have never been trained to design and...
Information Shifts: 4 Defense Snapshots – February 2009
Hostile surveillance(click to view full) Defense Industry Daily came across 3 snapshots in recent months that illustrate the changing nature of the front-line information war, and of the environment in which industry and government must operate. We've now added a 4th....
Phoenix Air Chartered for AFRICOM
Phoenix's "Gray Birds"(click to see clearly) Phoenix Air Group of Cartersville, GA received a $26.3 million fixed price indefinite-delivery/ indefinite-quantity contract to provide air charter service for Headquarters United States Africa Command (US AFRICOM)...
TEAMS Contracts to Maintain the USMCs AAV Amtracs
AAVP7 Amtracs(click to view full) BAE Systems Land & Armaments LP in York, PA received a $22.3 million sole-source, cost plus fixed fee contract for technical, engineering and management support (TEAMS) services in support of the Assault Amphibious Vehicles used by...
Ukraine, India Headed for Defense Cooperation Agreement
T-80UD "Al-Khalid"(click to view full) India's domain-b business magazine reports that India and the Ukraine have agreed to frame an inter-governmental commission on military technical cooperation, after talks at AeroIndia 2009 in Bangalore. The result would be a...

