MICAM Recon(click to view larger) FLIR Systems in North Billerica, Mass., USA received a $47.6 million firm-fixed-price contract for 5 to 705 Hand Held Imagers - Long Range (HHI-LR) and associated line items for the United States Special Operations Command's (US...
USA Articles
Research Results: Developing Systems Engineers
(click for issue) The Spring 2007 issue of Crosslink Magazine focuses on the state of the US Aerospace industry's technical workforce - but many of its articles' topics and conclusions could easily apply to the defense industry as a whole: "As aerospace systems grow...
$52.3M for FADEC Upgrades to F100-PW-220 Jet Engines
F100-PW-220(click to view full) United Technologies subsidiary Pratt and Whitney Incorporated of Hartford, Conn. received a contract for $52.3 million, in exchange for 1,051 Digital Electronic Engine Controls VI for the F100-PW-220/220E engine fleet which powers many...
USN: $8M to Make Journeyman Engineer Courses e-Learning
Logistic Systems International Inc. in Jacksonville, Fla. received an $8 million modification to a previously awarded $10 million firm-fixed-price contract for instructor-led training (N61339-06-C-0166, announced Aug 30/06). the modification exercises the options to...
Harball Sales: Russia Forcing India out of Taijikistan?
Tajikistan(click to view full) Confronted by a waffling buyer, most vendors don't immediately think of hostile acts a preferred sales tactic to close the deal. Putin's Russia, on the other hand, seems to be taking exactly that approach as India remains locked in price...
$86.1M for MTS Sensor/Targeting Turrets
MQ-1 MTS turret(click to view full) Sept 13/07: Raytheon Company of McKinney, Texas received a firm-fixed-price contract for $86.1 million, in exchange for 27 AN/AAS-52 Multi-Spectral Targeting Systems Model A (MTS-A) and 54 MTS-A Retrofits to support the MQ-1...
2 REMUS 600 Systems for UK Royal Navy
Remus 600(click to view full) Hydroid, LLC at the has carved out a very strong position in the global market for unmanned anti-mine underwater vehicles. Its modular Remote Environmental Measuring Unit (REMUS) systems were developed at the Woods Hole Oceanographic...
Iran’s New Saegheh Fighter Enters Service
Saegheh, IRIAF photo(click to view full) Back in September 2006, there was a bit of a kerfuffle in some quarters over an Iranian news agency (IRNA) announcement that quoted the commander of the Iranian army General Attollah Salehi as saying their new indigeous...
Harpoon & JSOW Getting 2-way Datalinks
UGM-84 Harpoon launch(click to view full) Rockwell Collins announced that it has been awarded an $18 million contract by Raytheon Missile Systems to design, develop, and produce the Strike Common Weapon Data Link for the JSOW Block III precision glide bomb and the...

