Six bids for India’s new advanced fighter

August 4, 2008 by Dagpotter · 1 Comment
Filed under: Contract Awards, D'Assault, India, MiG, Military Aviation, Proposal, production program 

With the decision here to relax the off set provisions required for work on Indian defense contracts India received six new proposals for their new advanced fighter aircraft, the MMRCA. See a story here. Boeing, Lockheed Martin, EADS, MiG, SAAB and D’Assault submitted proposals. Aircraft from these companies are currently under evaluation with a decision to be made in the next several months.

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Michigan economic development wars

June 22, 2008 by Dagpotter · Comment
Filed under: Congress, Contract Awards, Federal Budget Process, Michigan, development program, logistics, production program 

As we have previously mentioned here and here Michigan has set up various entities to promote the state’s companies for defense contracts. According to this article though the head of the state organization is upset with one of the regional ones for not doing enough. The state hired a retired USMC general to run their organization and now he is raising a dispute over the efforts of one setup for the Western part of the state to the point where he wants to establish his own organization to do the work of the existing one. I guess when you are going out for Federal dollars no effort is wasted.

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Global Warming favors Boeing

May 26, 2008 by Dagpotter · Comment
Filed under: Boeing, Contract Awards, EADS, GAO, Military Aviation, Northrop Grumman Corp., Promotions, Protest, U.S. Air Force, commercial aviation, development program, logistics, production program 

According to this article a Washington Democratic Congressman wants to introduce legislation that requires the DoD to evaluate the “green house gas” emissions when awarding defense contracts. If this had been done as part of the KC-45 award, then Boeing would have won as nominally the KC-767 emits less harmful gases then the larger A330. Read more

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Support for Northrop Grumman and EADS

March 13, 2008 by Dagpotter · Comment
Filed under: Boeing, Contract Awards, EADS, Northrop Grumman Corp., Protest, U.S. Air Force, commercial aviation, logistics, production program 

All defense contracts in many ways are somebody’ pork. These people like their pork. Here is an article supporting Northrop Grumman and EADS from West Virginia, where some jobs will come.

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EADS goes South Asian for productivity software

March 12, 2008 by Dagpotter · Comment
Filed under: Contract Awards, EADS, IT, Telelogic, production program 

EADS signed a $22 M contract with Telelogic to provide enterprise life cycle management software. The contract is for 5 years and covers maintenance as well as licensing. See the story here. While there is no direct discussion of using this to support their various defense contracts as well as their civil programs, it most likely will be deployed company wide and will support their growing number of defense programs.

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