Fix that pipe!(click to view full) When things go wrong on a naval ship, they can go very badly wrong indeed. Accidents, hostile fire, or hazardous conditions can force a crew to fight to save their vessel. Since humans don't survive very well in open ocean, it's...
RSAF AS332 on LSD-49(click to view full) Maintenance trends are one of the most underrated issues in the defense field. Britain is leading the way with "contracting for availability" approaches that pay fixed annual costs over a system's lifetime, and reward firms for...
Japanese E-2C (click to view full) On Feb 25/08, Northrop Grumman Systems Corp in Bethpage, NY received two contracts via the US Naval Air Systems Command in Patuxent River, MD related to Japan's E-2C Hawkeye Airborne Early Warning and Control (AWACS) aircraft. Work...
Old: Gazelle(click to view full) On Jan 31/08, French Defence Minister Herve Morin authorized the first public-private partnership contract by the French DGA procurement agency. This kind of arrangement is becoming more common, especially in Britain, but France has...
In late December 2007, BAE Systems signed a definitive agreement to sell its Surveillance and Attack business in Lansdale, PA to Cobham Defence Electronic Systems Corporation, for $240 million on a debt and cash free basis, payable on completion. The goodwill arising...
Protests, 2001-2007(click to view full) In "General bemoans glut of Air Force contract protests", Government Executive magazine quotes Gen. Bruce Carlson, the commander of US Air Force Material Command [link added by DID]: "[he said] that the contract for the huge...
Shadow 200 in Iraq(click to view full) With delays to satellite programs forcing costly civilian bandwidth buys, and breakthrough programs like TSAT still a distant reality, the US military is looking for ways to deliver bandwidth to the front lines. Urban areas and...
Titanium In January 2008, Boeing signed a billion-dollar titanium deal with Russia's Rosoboronexport military export agency, which had acquired top global titanium producer VSMPO-Avisa. While the 1973 Berry Amendment tends to exclude this titanium from the US defense...
Feb 20/08: Combat Support Associates in Orange, CA a $30.9 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for contract modifications for expansion of postal operations support at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait. Work is expected to be complete by Sept 30/09. This web solicitation was...