M1129 firing(click to view full) July 2/07: The GM-GDLS Defense Group L.L.C. Joint Venture in Sterling Heights, MI receives a delivery order amount of $256.9 million as part of a $5.41 billion firm-fixed-price contract for Stryker family vehicles based on the General...
Virginia Class cutaway(click to view: Large!) General Dynamics subsidiary Electric Boat Corp. in Groton, CT received a $116.4 million modification to previously awarded contract for lead yard services, and for development studies and design efforts, related to the US...
SU-30MKI, Typhoon, F3(click to view full) DID usually restricts its coverage to procurements, but issues of doctrine and lessons and innovations from the field also qualify. Drawing conclusions from exercises is always tricky, and can never replace combat experience....
FV430 Mk3, Iraq(click to view full) The British Army is currently upgrading about 500 FV430 Mk3 Armored Personnel Carriers with specialty armor and upgraded components (including IED jammer antennas in some cases), in order to equip an armored battlegroup. The intent...
Pascagoula, 2005(click to view full) In the wake of 2005's Hurricane Katrina, the US passed Section 2203 of Public Law 109-234, "Emergency Supplemental Appropriations for Defense, The Global War on Terror and Hurricane Recovery 2006." The stated purpose was to help...
USAF, Kunsan AB(click to view full) Sometimes, the nice thing to do as an ally is also the fiscally smart thing. Take military maintenance, for example. If your fighters are based in an allied country that flies the same aircraft, and that country has already set up...
AIBO: Move over,little dog...(click to view full) Small business qualifier Boston Dynamics, Inc. in Waltham, MA has received a $10 million completion-type, cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to build a dog-like robot with the capability to run fast, traverse trough terrain,...
Henry Schein in Melville, NY received a maximum $24.5 million for the 3rd option year of a fixed-price with economic price adjustment, customer value contract for various general dental supplies on behalf of the US Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and federal...
T-AOT 1124(click to view full) USS Product Carriers LLC in Edison, NJ won a $51.3 million fixed-price contract with reimbursable items for the time charter of two new-build, U.S.-flagged tankers. These ships are being built at National Steel and Shipbuilding Company...