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• I Think I CAMM: Britain’s Versatile Air Defense Missile

  CAMM-M/ Sea Ceptor (click to view full) Britain’s Royal Navy currently uses Seawolf missiles as the primary air defense system for its Type 23 frigates. They’re updated versions of a missile that was used during the 1981 Falklands War, but modern threats demand more. Britain also needs to equip its Type 26/27 Global Combat Ship frigate replacements, [...]

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• Up to $430M in SUPSALV Pacific Contracts

  SUPSALV Diver (click to view full) The US Navy’s SUPSALV isn’t glamorous, but they’re involved in a range of activities that include removing dangers to navigation, removing hazardous items (like oil & fuel) from sunken ships, and other underwater engineering. They’re also involved in emergency pollution and disaster response, including 2 of the decade’s most publicized American [...]

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• P-8 Poseidon MMA: Long-Range Maritime Patrol, and More

  P-8A Poseidon (click to view full) 1st full sim & WTT delivered; $227M for certification. (Feb 1/2) Maritime surveillance and patrol is becoming more and more important, but the USA’s P-3 Orion fleet is falling apart. The P-8A emerged from the ashes of the P-7 Long Range Air ASW (Anti-Submarine Warfare) Capable Aircraft program that was begun in [...]

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• Oceans Six? The USA’s Future Intermediate Research Fleet

  RV Kilo Moana (click to view full) Contract for 2nd ship of class. (Feb 3/12) The USA’s University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System conducts research throughout the world’s oceans, and their fleet has shifted to 4 basic research vessel types: Global, Ocean/Intermediate, Regional and Coastal/Local. From 2014 onward, new Ocean Class ships will replace aging Intermediate Class ships in current [...]

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• Rapid Fire 2012-02-03: GAO Left Wanting on SARs

  The RAND Corporation researched ways to reduce attrition in US Air Force training programs, which they believe could produce significant savings. The GAO finds DOD’s reporting of the costs involved in operating and supporting major programs to be lacking with a number of inconsistencies and under-reported amounts. DARPA is organizing a Proposers’ Day on Feb. 21 in [...]

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• C-17s for India

  C-17 Globemaster III (click to view full) Contract for 10 C-17s; Initial engine contract; Initial maintenance contract; Program cost. (Feb 2/12) In November 2009, reports surfaced that India was negotiating to buy 10 C-17A Globemaster III heavy transports for its air force. A Defense News article added that: “The C-17’s advantages include its easier handling (compared with the IL-76) [...]

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• Almost $1b to support USAF Medical Services, 2012-2018

  (click to visit) In February 2012, the USAF has issued a 6-year, multiple-award contract worth up to $985 million, to support the USAF Medical Service. Winners will have the chance to bid on delivery orders under the mixed indefinite-delivery/ indefinite quantity, firm-fixed-price, cost-plus-fixed-fee contract. Services will include management and professional support services, engineering and technical services, [...]

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• E-2D Hawkeye: The Navy’s New AWACS

  (click to view full) Just 5 in 2013? (Feb 1/12) Northrop Grumman’s E-2C Hawkeye is a carrier-capable “mini-AWACS” aircraft, designed to give long-range warning of incoming aerial threats. Secondary roles include strike command and control, land and maritime surveillance, search and rescue, communications relay, and even civil air traffic control during emergencies. E-2C Hawkeyes began replacing previous [...]

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• EA-18G Program: The USA’s Electronic Growler

  EA-6B Prowler (click to view full) Contract for Electronic Attack kits. (Feb 2/12) The USA’s electronic attack fighters are a unique, overworked, and nearly obsolete capability. With the retirement of the US Air Force’s long-range EF-111 Raven “Spark ‘Vark,” the aging 4-seat EA-6B Prowlers became the USA’s only remaining fighter for radar jamming, communications jamming and information operations [...]

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• Hawaii Superferry’s Bankruptcy = US Navy Opportunity

  Hawaii Superferry (click to view full) Cost actually $70M; Handover to Navy; Financial details. (Jan 29/12) In his April 6/09 discussion of the FY 2010 budget, Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates said that the US military wanted to charter another 2 “JHSV-like” fast catamaran ships from 2009-2011, until the JHSV ships begin arriving. That meant JHSV-winner Austal [...]

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