C2 Technologies of Vienna, VA received a contract for $5.95 million. This action provides for contract aircrew training and courseware development service at Davis Monthan AFB near Tucson, AZ. At this time all funds have been obligated. Air Combat Command AMIC/PKB in...
DDG 60 into Pearl(click to view full) The USA's DDG-51 Arleigh Burke Class destroyers are the core of the modern US Navy, with 51 ships of class afloat and serving, and 63 ships total contemplated. They are built by General Dynamics' Bath Iron Works, and Northrop...
Dassault Rafale(click for cutaway view) France's Rafale is part of a set of European 4+ generation fighters that were developed and fielded during the 1990s-early 21st century, with the aim of surpassing both existing offerings among America's "teen series" fighters,...
Facchina Construction Co., Inc. in La Plata, MD received a $27 million firm-fixed-price contract for construction of aircraft taxiways and parking aprons for the Green Side and White Side Aircraft Complex at the Marine Corps Air Facility in Quantico, Va. The work...
(click for magazine) "The characteristics of Small Wars have evolved since the Banana Wars and Gunboat Diplomacy. War is never purely military, but today's Small Wars are even less pure with the greater inter-connectedness of the 21st century. Their conduct typically...
A380 super-jumbo(click to view full) Flight International reports that the EADS has responded to 2 separate inquiries from USAF Air Mobility Command (AMC) about its A380 super-jumbo jet, which was delivered to Singapore Airlines on Oct 15/07 after a long delay that...
F-15E, P-51, F-22A...it's real.(click to view full) Oct 16/07: Boeing announces a $46 million contract from Lockheed Martin to integrate the F-22A Raptor the U.S. Air Force Distributed Mission Operations (DMO) training network, which will enable Raptor pilots to train...
Mike Turner(click to view full) When Mike Turner ascended to the position of BAE Systems CEO in March 2002, shares were at 115p and the firm's profitability depended heavily on British and Saudi government contracts, plus Airbus. By June 2007, when Turner told a...
RTAF C-130H(click to view full) One of the follow-ons from Thailand's September 2006 military coup has been a sharp rise in military spending from about 29 billion baht in 2005 to 140 billion set aside in the 2008 budget. One of the new projects being pursued is a Bt...