Defense Daily
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Business/FinancialICx Stock Price Tanks On Big Fourth Quarter Earnings Miss
By Calvin Biesecker ICx Technologies [ICXT] last Thursday posted a smaller net loss and higher sales in its fourth quarter but the loss was worse than expected, causing some investors […]
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Navy/USMCWhite House Wants VH-71 Increment 2, But Redesign Will Lead To Cost Increase
By Geoff Fein The White House has decided to move forward on Increment 2 of the next presidential helicopter, VH-71, citing that the Lockheed Martin [LMT] aircraft provides the capability […]
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Defense Watch
The Latest Word On Trends And Developments In Aerospace And Defense Bye, Bud. Rep. Bud Cramer (D-Ala.) announced last week he would not seek re-election to Congress next year. Cramer […]
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CongressCBO, Navy Differ On Cost of Shipbuilding Plan
By Jen DiMascio The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) places the Navy’s shipbuilding tab for the next five years about 30 percent higher than the Navy does, according to a report […]
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[March 17, 2008]
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- White House Wants VH-71 Increment 2, But Redesign Will Lead To Cost Increase
- Defense Watch
- CBO, Navy Differ On Cost of Shipbuilding Plan
- ICx Stock Price Tanks On Big Fourth Quarter Earnings Miss
- SBSS Among Space Capabilities That Will Launch, Deploy In Next Two Years
- Army Contract Seeks New Kinetic Missile Interceptor To Kill Rockets, Artillery
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Note
The Marine Corps last week placed the following orders for Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicles: International Military and Government LLC (IMG), Warrenville, Ill.: $410.7 million for 743 Category I […]
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Battelle Develops Breakthrough Composite Vehicle Armor System
By Ann Roosevelt Battelle has developed armor called the Resin and Ceramic Engineered (RACE) composite armor system that potentially could solve current IED and Explosively Formed Penetrators (EFP) problems for […]
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Army Funds Lockheed Demonstration of C-RAM System
Lockheed Martin [LMT] said March 6 it received an $8.6 million Science and Technology contract from the Army Research and Development Command (RDECOM) Missiles and Aviation Research and Development Center […]
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Major Defense Companies Get DARPA Contracts For Mini-Satellites
By Dave Ahearn DARPA last week awarded Boeing [BA], Lockheed Martin [LMT], Northrop Grumman [NOC] and Orbital Sciences [ORB] multi-million-dollar contracts to design and build what is essentially one satellite […]
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Congress
Murtha Points To Difficulties With Possibility of Skipping DDG-1000s
By Jen DiMascio The chairman of the House Appropriations defense subcommittee indicated yesterday there are problems with an effort to have the Navy "jump over" its next-generation destroyer in favor […]