The US Department of Defense's prescription drug spending alone is estimated to reach $15 billion by 2015. GAO examined DOD's prescription drug spending trends from fiscal years 2000 - 2006 and DOD's key efforts to limit its prescription drug spending at retail...
Spanish Searcher, Herat(click to view full) In April 2007, Spanish reader Pedro Lucio alerted us to an official announcement that Spain's Ministry of Defence had issued a EUR 14.37 million (then about $19.5 million) contract for unmanned air vehicles that would be...
RQ-7, flightline(click to view full) AAI Corp. in Hunt Valley, MD received a $127.6 million firm-fixed price contract for the full rate production buy for 14 Shadow unmanned aerial vehicle systems and associated support equipment. Work will be performed in Hunt...
M1A2 Abrams TUSK(click to view full) TUSK stands for "Tank Urban Survival Kit," and represents the American approach to the problem of employing tanks in urban situations where weapons elevation, protection placement, and other design elements aren't designed to cope...
Security clearances are a big deal for the US defense industry. Delays of up to 2 years in processing applications has made them a major bottleneck for many defense firms, and led to premiums of $20,000 - $30,000 for employees who do possess one. Congress has taken...
M1151 HMMWV, new(click to view full) While orders and shipments of blast-resistant MRAP vehicles continue to roll, the flat-bottomed, vulnerable, but lighter Hummers remain the core of the US wheeled vehicle fleet. They are still seeing extensive use on the front...
(click to view full) Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems of Woburn, MA received a maximum $400 million indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract to support the design, development, and activation of a European-based mid-course radar for ballistic missile...
Guest article by Steven Tylock What sort of a presence have you built online? If a recruiter had the perfect opportunity for you, and typed in all of the keywords in a search on LinkedIn, would your profile show up in the results? If a potential customer searched for...
The USA's Congressional Government Accountability Office has delivered its 6th annual assessment of 72 selected weapon programs on land, sea, and air. America's Department of Defense (DOD) has roughly doubled its planned investment in new systems from $790 billion to...