• Raytheon wins $155 million wireless contract

    DARPA awards Raytheon $155 million to provide a military wireless network interoperable gateway

  • L-1 wins $8.3 million U.S. Army contract for HIIDE 4.0 biometric device

    HIIDE is a rugged hand-held biometric enrollment and recognition device providing real-time identification using iris, finger, and face biometrics. More than 7,500 devices are currently fielded into areas of conflict around the world

  • The continuing development of Fort Detrick offers business opportunities

    In some places there is a debate about the balance between the business opportunities and risks that the presence of a BioLab facility offers; in Washington County, Maryland, they concentrate on the business opportunities the sprawling — and growing — Fort Detrick (it covers 1,127 acres and employs more than 8,000 people) offers

  • Raytheon pursues stand-off radiation sensor technology

    Raytheon received a $2.9 million contract from DHS to develop a stand-off nuclear radiation system

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  • Russia to buy UAVs from Israel

    Russian officers were impressed with the performance of Israel-made UAVs used by Georgian forces during the August conflict, and decided to sign a contract with Israel to buy the systems

  • BAE to participate in Encore II

    U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency’s Encore II is a $12 billion program to protect U.S. military communication; BAE was awarded part of the contract

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  • New York State gives company 45 days to fix problems

    New York State awarded M/A Com a contract for building the infrastructure for the statewide wireless network for first responders; the contract was to be completed by December 2006; state comptroller office, citing the delay and nearly 20 other deficiencies, gives company 45 days to fix problem or see its contract revoked

  • Europe's Northrop Grumman/EADS group wins $35 billion aircraft deal

    A big loss for Boeing, as its European rivals win a $35 billion U.S. Air Force tanker deal; Boeing may have paid the price for the tanker contract it had in 2003, but which was annulled after revelations of procurement fraud; Boeing paid a record $615 million settlement to the government

  • U.K. Ministry of Defense selects BAE for SSEI

    The Software Systems Engineering Initiative (SSEI) aims to reduce the cost and speed up production of the software; the government has identified such software as “the critical enabling technology” for modern platforms; BAE’s Military Air Solutions will lead a consortium to manage the project

  • American Superconductor's New York grid work moves forward

    Massachusetts-based American Superconductor signed a contract to to develop and install new electrical power-grid technology in New York City which would enable Con Edison better to handle power surges and interruptions caused by accidents, weather or terrorist attacks; after government agencies’ squabble, and congressional examination of the contract, DHS tells company to go forward

  • New direction charted for wartime contracting

    Government watchdog organizations say the cost of the war in Iraq has ballooned, in part, because of the dearth of trained acquisition professionals assigned to the theater and the failure of federal agencies to establish a uniform set of procurement policy guidelines

  • In anxious markets, defense contractors are a safe, stable bet

    Market anxiety and worries about recession notwithstanding, U.S. defense companies are doing fine — and expect to be doing fine in the coming year; an analyst says that the defense industry is “a pillar of stability compared to the turbulent markets in other industries”