Small business qualifier LTM, Inc. in Havelock, NC received a $24.9 million ceiling priced modification to a previously awarded cost-plus-fixed-fee, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract (N00421-01-D-0101) to exercise an option for approximately 353,600...
F-35A head-on(click to view full) Israel's relationship with the F-35 program has been rocky at times, but its re-admittance restored its Security Cooperative Participant status in the program, and the IAF still plans to buy about 100 F-35s to replace much of its F-16...
Mechanical dredge(click to view full) Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Co. in Oakbrook, IL won a $61.3 million firm-fixed-price contract for maintenance dredging of the Port Jersey Channel in Jersey City, N.J. Work is expected to be complete by April 30, 2009. There were...
HMDS, testing(click to view full) DID recently covered the JHMCS helmet-mounted display system that equips American "teen series" fighters around the world, and explained its importance to air combat in the 21st century. The Elbit Systems/ Rockwell-Collins joint...
(Images fixed) Ikhana image(click to view full) A recent DID article explained the differences between the smaller MQ-1 Predator and MC-1 Sky Warrior UAVs, and their more advanced, higher-altitude cousin the MQ-9 Reaper hunter-killer. The MQ-9 is also the basis for...
FREMM concept(click to view full) "Dogfight at the Casbah: Rafale vs. F-16" noted the dwindling odds of a Rafale fighter sale to Morocco, but reported rumors that Morocco would purchase one of the new 142m, 6,000t Franco-Italian FREMM frigates for about EUR 500...
Checking into it(click to view full) On August 22/07, the Pentagon released its Selected Acquisition Reports for the June 2007 reporting period, and the US Marines' Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle program was listed: "The SAR was submitted to report schedules slips of...
M236 on Hummer(click for timed view) In an age of artillery trackback radars, one of the most important attributes for any artillery system is speedy set-up and take-down. The M109A6 Paladin fixed that problem for the USA's 155mm self-propelled howitzers, but what...
AMV with RCWS-30(click to view full) The Finnish firm Patria Oyj has made quite a name for itself in the field of wheeled Armored Personnel Carriers, via its popular Armoured Modular Vehicle (AMV). Patria has won several international competitions a large 690-vehicle...