Pentagon acquisition chief Carter issues guidance for “acquisition professionals” to reduce overhead costs associated with the $400 billion per year spent on contracts.
Can We Talk?: In response to the Carter memo, the Aerospace Industries Association called on the US to implement a set of policy initiatives, including easing export controls, to enable the industry to [...]
BAE Systems in Arlington, VA received a $49.8 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to develop an infrared system “that provides a real-time, high-resolution, wide area video persistent surveillance capability that allows joint forces to keep critical areas of interest under constant surveillance with high degree of target location accuracy.” At this time, $6.4 million has been committed [...]
Firms gearing up for American “T-X” competition to replace its supersonic T-38 Talon jet trainers
Israeli satellite service provider Gilat Satellite Networks is looking to expand into defense markets.
1st test flight for South Korea’s “Surion” utility helicopter.
New ground control bases decided for USAF’s MQ-1 Predator and MQ-9 Reaper fleets. Operations currently run out of Creech AFB, [...]
Larry Siems, principal author on the ACLU project The Torture Report, discusses his effort to summarize the thousands of Bush administration torture documents obtained through FOIA requests, the dozens of US citizens targeted for extrajudicial assassination by the Obama administration, John Durham’s long investigation into the CIA’s destruction of torture tapes and the massive opposition [...]