L-3 Communications Government Services of Chantilly, VA received an indefinite-delivery/ indefinite-quantity contract for $136.5 million, in exchange for for Academic, Training and Exercise Contract Support (ATECS) to to the 505th Command and Control Wing. The 505th...
LAV-TUA(click to view full) Raytheon Company has just announced a $17 million U.S. Army contract to build 462 TOW-2A RF bunker buster missiles for the Canadian Army., whose fragmenting, high-explosive warhead is combined with a new wireless radio frequency command...
UH-72A LUH(click to view full) The UH-72A Light Utility Helicopter is modified commercial EC145 helicopter adapted for military use. To date, it has represented several things. A key spinoff of the canceled RAH-66 Comanche program, representing an acknowledgment that...
Hermes 450,note civil #(click to view full) Israel pioneered the military use of UAV systems with a drone called, appropriately enough, the Pioneer. It was adopted in the 1980s by the USA, and some of them are still flying. IAI's Medium Altitude, Long Endurance (MALE)...
(click for article) The November 2007 issue of Vanity Fair contains an article covering the multi-billion LOGCAP-III contract in Iraq. More specifically, it covers qui tam lawsuits launched by former KBR contractor employees, alleging fraud and/or misconduct on the...
Radar height matters(click to view full) As "The Hunt for the Affordable Weapon(TM)" noted: "Just as anti-ballistic missile technology is developing itself for the coming age of the rogue state, America's nets are slowly being drawn up against the cruise missile...
F-35 Variants(click to view full) The F-35 Lightning II is a major multinational program intended to produce an "affordably stealthy" multi-role strike fighter that will have three variants: the F-35A conventional version for the US Air Force et. al.; the F-35B Short...
Honeywell Technology Solutions, Inc. in Jacksonville, FL received a $42.3 million modification to previously awarded cost-plus-award-fee contract (M67004-99-C-0002) to exercise the 9th option period for Fiscal Year 2008, for the Maritime Prepositioning Ships (MPS)...
Simon/GREM(click to view full) You're a soldier, approaching a building that contain armed enemies. As the squad slips from point to point, leapfrogging to offer each other cover, the question arises: who wants to be the designated bad boy who gets to kick down the...