• Rapid Fire: 2011-08-31

    Updated: 2011-08-31 12:05:15
    The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) awards Teledyne Brown Engineering an indefinite delivery indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract worth up to $595 million for the development, deployment and sustainment of an Objective Simulation Framework (OSF). AeroVironment unveils its lightweight man-portable Shrike VTOL UAV. Shrike is the result of a contract from DARPA to develop a persistent perch and stare (SP2S) UAV. BAE Systems announces a successful testing of its Mk 38 MOD 2 [...]

  • John Glaser

    Updated: 2011-08-31 05:34:30
    John Glaser, Assistant Editor at Antiwar.com, discusses the NY Times article “U.S. Tactics in Libya May Be a Model for Other Efforts” about a supposed victory for the “Obama doctrine;” resurrecting the “America is a force for good” meme, where foreign policy exists solely to prevent humanitarian disasters and spread freedom and democracy; the Libyan [...]

  • DynCorp Still Training Afghan Ministry of Interior

    Updated: 2011-08-30 18:58:32
    In late August 2011, Dyncorp International, LLC in Falls Church, VA received a $146.6 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to help train Afghanistan’s Ministry of the Interior personnel, on behalf of the Combined Security Transition Command – Afghanistan. This has been an ongoing effort in Afghanistan, and DynCorp has been heavily involved throughout. They have been criticized [...]

  • $200M for Environmental Services at NAVFAC Atlantic

    Updated: 2011-08-30 17:35:13
    In late August 2011, the AECOM/EnSafe joint venture, Resolution Consultants in Virginia Beach, VA won a maximum $200 million cost-plus award-fee, indefinite-delivery/ indefinite-quantity architect-engineering contract for comprehensive long-term environmental services at NAVFAC Atlantic’s installations. Both firms have extensive experience in this area, and have worked with the Navy on similar efforts; indeed, Resolution consultants is [...]

  • Rapid Fire: 2011-08-30

    Updated: 2011-08-30 12:09:40
    Two members of the Commission on Wartime Contracting say that $30 billion-worth of expenditure on contracts and grants in Afghanistan and Iraq have been wasted through poor planning, shifting requirements and negligence. As a result, federal agencies and contractors must do better. Flight Global’s/PricewaterhouseCooper’s (PwC) Top 100 Special Report: 2010 a year of rebound says that while the aerospace sector enjoyed a [...]

  • CHS-4: Up to $3.7b more Electronics and IT from General Dynamics

    Updated: 2011-08-29 20:36:07
    (click to view full) In late August 2011, General Dynamics C4 Systems Inc. received the Command Hardware Systems-4 contract, as a follow-on to its CHS-3 and CHS-2 work from 1995-2011. Items covered under this maximum 5-year, $3.7 billion contract include rugged local area networks (LAN), server platforms, communication gateways, routers, laptops, faxes and various ancillary equipment [...]

  • Angela Keaton

    Updated: 2011-08-28 05:00:30
    Angela Keaton, Antiwar.com Director of Operations, discusses the $30,000 in matching funds for donations over $100 (and maybe smaller ones too) and Antiwar.com’s part in making Ron Paul a household name and promoting the Come Home America antiwar alliance. MP3 here. (9:08) Angela Keaton is Director of Operations at Antiwar.com. She can be reached by [...]

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