Australian MoD: Warnings on cost of sustaining
With defence purchases (in Australia) of about $200 billion planned or under way — and more than $56bn estimated to involve the army — it is no surprise the spending spree has grabbed headlines....
Category: Sustainment & Logistics
NATO Multinational Project: The first NATO NSPA Air-to-Ground Precision Guided Munitions
The NATO Support and Procurement Agency (NSPA) received the first lot of Precision Guided Munitions (PGMs), acquired through a NATO project involving 11 Allies and one NATO partner. The PGMs, produced in the United...
Restructuring the Department of Defense Acquisition, Technology and Logistics Organization and Chief Management Officer Organization
Trump to Nominate Robert McMahon as DoD Assistant Secretary for Sustainment President Trump has announced Robert McMahon, assistant secretary for logistics and materiel readiness at the Defense Department, as his choice for the next DoD...
Freight Transportation with drones in non-segregated airspace
Unmanned autonomous aircraft have reached sophisticated technologies and can have security systems that allow them to be used in controlled airspace, ie civil aviation. The dimensions of these automatic aircraft range from those of...
Sustaining F-35 Electronic Warfare systems
BAE Systems has received a contract from Lockheed Martin to ensure the readiness of critical electronic warfare (EW) systems on the F-35 Lightning II fighter aircraft. Under the five-year contract, BAE Systems will manage...
DARPA: $15.5M to Charles River Analytics team to Build App that Detects Warfighter Illness and Injury
Charles River Analytics Inc., developer of intelligent systems solutions, has been selected as a prime contractor under DARPA’s Warfighter Analytics using Smartphones for Health (WASH) program, performing under both technical areas. Early detection of...
To reduce F-35 sustainment cost, focus on agile software
Predictive maintenance could significantly drive down sustainment costs – “If the Pentagon wants to decrease F-35 sustainment costs, it needs to make sure it gets its new software modernization strategy right”, Will Roper, the Air Force’s...
ESG Wins German Armed Forces Tender for the Procurement, Certification and Comprehensive System Support of a T-UAS
With the assignment for procurement and certification at the overall aircraft level, as well as the comprehensive system support of an unmanned aircraft system, the competence of ESG as an aviation company, as well...
Sustainment Week at CASCOM to discuss the future of Army Logistics
As the joint force demands a more expeditionary, regionally aligned and globally responsive force, sustainment forces must adapt to sustain global joint combined arms operations in sufficient scale, for ample duration, with joint, interorganizational...
US Defence Department Reform: “Sustainability is a must”
“We need to start thinking about sustainment more when we design systems” The Defense Department’s former acquisitions, technology and logistics function recently became two organizations: acquisitions and sustainment, and research and engineering According to...
F-35 Joint Program Office: $1.4 billion sustainment contract to Lockheed Martin industry team
The F-35 Joint Program Office has awarded the Lockheed Martin industry team a $1.4 billion sustainment contract to support F-35fighter jets worldwide for U.S. military and international customers. The annual contract funds sustainment support...
Swedish Army: SEK 51 million to Saab for Training Systems
Saab has signed a contract with the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration, FMV, for training systems for the Swedish Army. The order value amounts to SEK 51 million and deliveries will take place at the...
Raytheon: Army Mobile Intelligence Platform for US Army
Raytheon Company has been awarded a U.S. Army contract to demonstrate the company’s commercially available mobile intelligence platform that will allow soldiers to quickly collect and access information on the battlefield. This commercial laptop-based...
Engineering Support for US Army Commercial Based Technology Analysis: $41.5 M to CACI
CACI International Inc announced it was awarded a task order with a potential value of approximately $41.5 million to provide engineering support services for the U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Research, Development, and Engineering Center’s Intelligence...