Florida Worries About the Defense Budget

December 1, 2008 by Dagpotter · Comment
Filed under: Department of Defense, Federal Budget Process, Florida, Lockheed Martin, Military Aviation, Restructuring, production program 

This article in the OrlandoSentinal.com describes concerns that with the continued payout of money to save finance and other companies the US government may be forced to cut the defense budget. Concern surrounds the two big ticket fighter aircraft currently in production for the US military. The F-22 program is winding down unless Congress decides to extend the production beyond current planned numbers. There are also worries that the F-35 JSF program will be cut back or canceled. These programs provide a lot of work to Lockheed in the Orlando area. Read more

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KC-X haunts CSAR-X

September 17, 2008 by Dagpotter · Comment
Filed under: Agusta Westland, Boeing, Contract Awards, Department of Defense, GAO, Lockheed Martin, Military Aviation, Proposal, Protest, Sikorsky, U.S. Air Force, commercial aviation, production program 

With the decision to punt on the KC-45 recompete by the current administration there are some worries that this might affect the CSAR-X contract as well. Last word was that the announcement of who won the new GAO ordered competition would come sometime this Fall. Now some of the competitors; Sikorsky, Augusta Westland and Boeing; are concerned that perhaps this decision will delay the announcement of the winner. Boeing had won a contract only to have a protest upheld by GAO for the USAF not applying their criteria correctly.

See this short AP article for more.

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