In for upgrades(click to view full) Link 16 is a secure, jam-resistant, digital data link transmitted via radio that allows military aircraft, ships and ground units to exchange their tactical pictures with each other in near real time. Link 16 also supports the...
Most people never see services like wastewater management and water distribution. The cost is built into their taxes, or into initial subdivision fees. Military bases have to deal with this, too, and the preference in the USA seems to be moving toward very long-term...
Hesco, explained(click to view full) It's a surprisingly simple concept. Why ship walls, concrete, or even concrete barriers, when you can ship collapsible forms that can quickly be filled with sand or dirt by any untrained person? Why use sandbags with their inherent...
Blackwater contractors In January 2007, DID asked "Contractors on the Battlefield: Has Their Legal Status Just Changed?" Whether or not their legal status has changed under US military law, one of the world's largest security contracting firms just got a very sharp...
Cast away... The USA's Mine Protected Ambush Resistant (MRAP) vehicle program has received a DX rating from the Pentagon - a rating normally restricted for items like nuclear missile submarines. That rating gives MRAP vehicles supplier priority over almost every other...
M1133 Stryker(click to view full) Sept 14/07: The GM/ GDLS Defense Group L.L.C. Joint Venture in Sterling Heights, Mich. Received a $37.9 million delivery order for 33 Stryker M1133 Medical Evacuation (MEDEVAC) Vehicles, as part of a $5.68 billion firm-fixed-price...
ITT Corporation of White Plains, NY and has reached a definitive agreement for ITT to purchase all outstanding shares of NYC-based EDO Corp. for $56 per share in cash. Including approximately $120 million of net debt and the anticipated conversion of convertible...
MiG-31 Foxhound(click to view full) Kazakhstan Today reports the Russia's RSK-MiG signed a $60+ million contract at the MAKS 2007 aerospace show to refurbish and upgrade Kazakh aircraft. Reports indicate that the aircraft are 10 of Kazakhstan's 50 MiG-31 Foxhounds, a...
The United States Transportation Command (US TRANSCOM) Directorate of Acquisition at Scott Air Force Base, Ill. has issued 9 multiple-award, indefinite delivery/ indefinite quantity, fixed-price contracts with a total maximum value of $400 million. The contractors...