The British company Morgan Crucible JV announced that it had set up a new joint venture between Force Protection of South Carolina and is unit NP Aerospace. The new company will be called Integrated Survivability Technologies. Reuters reports that this new company which will mainly work in England will receive a $120 million contract to make heavy tactical support vehicles for the UK...
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April 2009
Starting late Friday and into Saturday word began to leak out what Secretary Gates will announce on Monday about the FY10 Defense Budget. As we wrote earlier the final numbers going to the Hill have slipped until May. The story that is being revealed is a complete overhaul of the modernization of the U.S. Armed Forces. It is expected when Gates first goes to brief the Congressional...
The New York Times reports on a case where Northrop Grumman settled a whistleblower lawsuit with the Federal Government about faulty parts used in satellites. The suit is actually based on work done by TRW before they were bought by Northrop Grumman in the early part of this decade. It alleged that TRW provided electronic parts that would fail once the satellite was placed in use leading to...
Reuters is reporting that the Indian government plans to move forward with the next step for their new fighter program. This illustrates the county’s commitment to upgrade their military over the next decade. This will be a series of trials of the six aircraft proposed. In the U.S. it would be called a flyoff. It allows the companies participating to demonstrate the capability of...
Eagle Industries is a private company that primarily makes personal gear for soldiers such as backpacks and storage containers for gear. That company had bought the plant formally belonging to Michael Bianco Inc. in New Bedford, MA. That company sold it as the founder was convicted of various crimes including hiring illegal aliens to work on defense contracts. Now Eagle Industries has been...
The Associated Press is reporting that a major upgrade to the State of Louisiana’s government computer network has been delayed for now due to budget problems. The program had been planned for several years and was budgeted at over $100 million. Eventually the upgrade would replace various state department’s systems with just one to handle financial planning and transactions as...
The National Office Products Alliance (NOPA) released a press release asking cities and counties to re-look at how they buy office supplies. Citing the issues with Office Depot that we wrote about earlier this month the group recommends going to multi-source more open contracts. The Alliance feels that more competition will prevent abuses such as Office Depot’s alleged overcharging as...
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