(click to view PDF) DID's FOCUS Article covering the US Army's RESET maintenance programs shone a light on an under-appreciated aspect of defense spending. Now a Congressional Budget Office report says the US Army has received $38 billion to date to replace, repair,...
CH-149 Cormorant(click to view full) The Aerospace Division of Halifax-based IMP Group Ltd. recently received a second 7-year increment for its contract to maintain Canada's search and rescue (SAR) helicopter fleet. This original contract, which was competitively...
Rapier launch(click to view full) The previous GBP 36 million TRADERS(The Rapier Exchange of Repairable Spares) contract with MBDA was signed in March 2004. In August 2005, however, the MoD's Land Guided Weapons Integrated Project Team (IPT) launched the Air Defence...
RAF Typhoons(click to view full) Britain's unusual maintenance approach for military equipment is called "future contracting for availability." In English, this involves partnerships with contractors that establish fixed-price support services for the equipment's...
It's a growing practice in a number of Commonwealth countries - independent deal monitors outside of official auditing offices whose role is to scrutinize the defense procurement process and certify the process as fair. India, which has traditionally had a very...
MQ-1 landing -1 Hellfire fired?(click to view full) General Atomics of San Diego, CA won a firm fixed price contract from the USAF for $94.3 million in exchange for 36 Predator MQ-1B Aircraft, Aircraft Spares, RSP kits, Hellfire Missile Kit Installation, IMAs and core...
EWA Government Systems, Inc. in Herndon, Va. received a 2-year, Indefinite-Delivery/ Indefinite-Quantity contract with a ceiling of $10.5 million from the Program Management Reconnaissance and Surveillance Office of U.S. Special Operations Command's Intelligence and...
WMSL-751 Waesche(click to view full) Sept 11/07 saw Northrop Grumman celebrate some milestones for its National Security Cutter program. The release arrived shortly on the heels of a Defense News Report that notes some of the process improvements in use within the...
Bridge & Nimitz(click to view full) Guam Industrial Services, Inc. in Santa Rita, Guam received a $9.8 million firm-fixed-price contract for a 90-calendar-day regular overhaul of Military Sealift Command's fast combat support ship USNS Bridge [T-AOE-10]. The regular...