• Rapid Fire: 2011-01-31

    Updated: 2011-01-30 21:19:56
    GAO reports: DoD is having trouble counting [PDF] all of its service contractors; Defense Business Transformation initiative [PDF] has flaws; and ballistic missile defense plan for Europe has unrealistic cost estimates [PDF]. Is Pentagon chief Robert Gates planning to stay for awhile? GE’s joint venture with China’s Avic, to produce advanced open architecture avionics, is raising some [...]

  • M1117 Family ASVs for the Afghan National Army

    Updated: 2011-01-28 03:22:07
    M1117 @ Yaqubi.AF (click to view full) In late January 2011, Textron Marine & Land Systems in Slidell, LA received a $42.5 million firm-fixed-price contract to test of 23 M1117 ASV family armored cars, “as well as 50 vehicles being produced for the Afghanistan National Army.” Work will be performed in Slidell, LA, with an estimated [...]

  • Rapid Fire: 2011-01-28

    Updated: 2011-01-27 21:33:34
    Defense budget cuts split HASC Republicans between hawks and Tea Partiers. With a bevy of batteries weighing soldiers down, MIT’s research into mini gas turbines in a silicon chip promises a possible way out. US Army’s Dugway Proving Ground, which stores and tests chemical and biological weapons, reopens after a lockdown because of a “serious concern within [...]

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