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Rapid Fire: 2010-09-01
China’s FY 2010 defense spending increased 7.5% to $78 billion, says Taiwan defense report . Up and Down: Wells Fargo upgrades outlook for Raytheon’s shares due to significant international sales by the company, while the investment bank downgrades the outlook for Lockheed Martin’s shares because of tighter DoD budgets. Read [...]
DARPAs VIRAT: Video Search, With a Twist
DARPA’s VIRAT (click to view full) The proliferation of UAVs and fighters equipped with stabilized, high-magnification video pods and imaging radars has a number of corollary consequences. Read the original: DARPAs VIRAT: Video Search, With a Twist
Rapid Fire: 2010-08-31
French defense industry needs to be rationalized, which includes reducing government funding for defense R&D and encouraging aerospace supplier Safran and defense electronics firm Thales to swap assets, says French defense minister. View post: Rapid Fire: 2010-08-31
Rapid Fire: 2010-08-20
CRS (Congressional Research Service) analyst Ronald O’Rourke, who has often been right about shipbuilding programs when the US Navy was wrong, releases his August 2010 report on Navy shipbuilding plans . Meanwhile, Maritime Professional delivers an equally hard-hitting analysis of the fast-dwindling US Merchant Marine, and MARAD: “ The [...]
Iraqi Security Forces Order of Battle 2010-07/08
(c) DJ Elliott (click to view full) DJ Elliott is a retired USN Intelligence Specialist (22 years active duty) who has been analyzing and writing on Iraqi Security Forces developments since 2006. Visit link: Iraqi Security Forces Order of Battle 2010-07/08
Eurofighter’s EUR 9B Multinational Tranche 3A Contract
Italian Eurofighters (click to view full) IMU order; AESA radar work; Tranche 3B offer. Follow this link: Eurofighter’s EUR 9B Multinational Tranche 3A Contract
$30M in University Research Dollars Available via SPAWAR Atlantic
US Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Atlantic in Charleston, SC recently issued cost-plus-fixed-fee, indefinite-delivery /indefinite-quantity, multiple award contracts to 7 universities, who will compete for task orders. Up to $30 million may be requested over the base year and 5 option years, in exchange for ”...technical and [...]
Rapid Fire: 2010-08-19
US Missile Defense Agency is reportedly eyeing potential competitive bids worth as much as $37 billion over the next 5 years, as it moves away from sole-source contracts. The GMD system is an early harbinger… Brookings think tank staffer P.W Originally posted here: Rapid Fire: 2010-08-19
The US Navy’s Mobile Landing Platform Ships
MLP concept (click to view full) The MLP is intended to be a new class and type of auxiliary support ship, as part of the US Navy’s Maritime Prepositioning Force of the Future (MPF-F) program. See more here: The US Navy’s Mobile Landing Platform Ships
USA: 5-Years, $457M for APR-39 ECM Systems
AN/APR-39B set (click to view full) Northrop Grumman Corp. in Rolling Meadows, IL recently received a 5-year $457.1 million firm-fixed-price contract for its APR-39A/B/C Radar Signal Detection Set (RSDS) including upgrade kits; and repair, integration, interim software support and field support View post: USA: 5-Years, $457M for APR-39 ECM [...]
