The Defense Department is considering European Aeronautic Defense and Space Co.’s request for 90 days beyond the May 10 deadline to prepare its bid. The department is considering whether it will allow a “reasonable extension”. Extensions aren’t unusual for requests for proposals and are considered on a case-by-case basis.
EADS indicated that other issues could affect [...]
In another twist to the ongoing Iranian saga, Putin is throwing a whole lot of bargaining chips on the negotiating table:
Carrots
Supporting sanctions against Iran
Reaching agreement on nukes
Sticks
Threatening to launch Bushehr, Iran’s first nuclear plant, in June 2010
Stalling agreement on nukes
What does Putin want?
Membership in WTO for Russia
$35 billion contract to replace the Air Force’s aging [...]
GE Intelligent Platforms today announced 6U OpenVPX NPN240 multi-processor, expanding its family of rugged GPGPU (general purpose computing on a graphics processing unit) solutions. The NPN240 features two NVIDIA® CUDA-capable GT240 96-core GPUs, enabling it to deliver up to 750 GFLOPS peak per card slot (depending on the application). Multiple NPN240s can be linked to [...]
U.S. Navy awarded a $219 million prime contract to CACI International Inc to provide command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance (C4ISR) and business IT software and maintenance services to the Space and Naval Warfare (SPAWAR) Systems Center Atlantic. The award is a Performance Based, Level of Effort Cost Plus Fixed Fee contract with [...]
Increasing global threats such as those to computer networks are prompting more NATO attention to cyber warfare operations, NATO’s top military officer said today. Navy Adm. James G. Stavridis, NATO’s supreme allied commander for Europe and commander of U.S. European Command, warned the Senate Armed Services Committee that the cybersecurity is among the greatest [...]
EADS announced that the Northrop Grumman/EADS team will not bid for the US Air Force Tanker replacement programme. Five years ago EADS had partnered with Northrop Grumman, as prime contractor, to pursue the US Air Force KC-135 modernisation programme. In 2008, the team was selected and awarded the contract. Today, Northrop Grumman has decided not [...]
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