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Rapid Fire April 26, 2013: Decent Quarter for Primes Shouldn’t Hide Industry Diversity

Apr 26, 2013 10:40 UTC

  • Raytheon’s Q1 2013 sales were down by 1% Y/Y to %5.88B. The backlog lost 2.2% from a year ago, to $33.5B. Missile systems performed best (+8%) while network centric systems decreased by 7%.
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Rapid Fire April 25, 2013: How Best to Execute Furloughs?

Apr 25, 2013 10:45 UTC

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  • A large bipartisan group of US lawmakers sent a letter [PDF] to the secretary of defense urging him to base sequestration-driven furlough decisions on merit, reports Government Executive.
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Rapid Fire April 24, 2013: Contractors Starting to Face Sequestration Fallout

Apr 24, 2013 11:15 UTC

  • BAE Systems and its suppliers are lobbying the US Congress to sustain Bradley orders from the US Army and keep their production line open.

  • Lockheed Martin’s Q1 2013 revenue was down 2% Y/Y to $11.1B, dragged down by the Aeronautics segment because of fewer F-16 and C-130 deliveries. They estimate sequestration could lower net sales for the year by $825M. Boeing’s sales for Q1 were down by 3% to $18.9B, with BDS at $8.1B.
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Rapid Fire April 23, 2013: Cyber Attribution

Apr 23, 2013 08:40 UTC

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  • Discussions about cyberwar doctrine often gets stuck on a difficulty to properly detect the origin of attacks (what’s called the attribution problem). That does not mean such intrusions cannot be tracked down at least by country. A report issued by a team led by Verizon states that:
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Rapid Fire April 22, 2013: Another Bunch of Big USA-Middle East Deals Coming

Apr 22, 2013 10:15 UTC

  • Another big Mideast sale is coming down the pipe that will include F-16E/Fs for the UAE, and cruise missiles for the UAE and Saudi Arabia. Israel to get V-22 tiltrotors, AESA fighter radars, and KC-135 aerial tankers. Choosing 707-based tankers is odd, given their growing support costs, and IAI’s cheap K-767 MMTT alternative.
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Rapid Fire April 19, 2013: US Threat Assessment

Apr 19, 2013 11:10 UTC

  • Michael Flynn, the Director of the US Defense Intelligence Agency, submitted his annual threat assessment [PDF] to the Senate Armed Services Committee.
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Rapid Fire April 18, 2013: Pentagon DPAP Looking for Help | Operation Serval Fuel Use

Apr 18, 2013 10:15 UTC

  • The Pentagon’s Defense Procurement and Acquisition Policy (DPAP) has opened applications to its Acquisition Exchange Program (AEP) which opens up 3-12 months assignments at the GS-11+ level that span a number of DoD-wide acquisition policy issues such as international contracting or strategic sourcing.
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Rapid Fire April 17, 2013: USML Revisions | Italy’s Budget Crunch

Apr 17, 2013 11:20 UTC

  • Following an executive order from the White House last month, the US Department of State’s amendment of International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) to revise 4 US Munitions List (USML) categories has been published in the Federal Register [PDF] and will be effective on October 15, 2013.
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Rapid Fire April 16, 2013: These Are Not the Buzzwords You Are Looking For

Apr 16, 2013 11:30 UTC

  • Per instruction number 5025.13 [PDF] enabled by DoD Directive 5105.53 (Reference (a)) and pursuant to Public Law 111-274 (Reference (b))(also known as the “Plain Writing Act of 2010,” and referred to in this instruction as the “Plain Writing Act”) and Deputy Secretary of Defense Memorandum (Reference (c)), DoD personnel and contractors will hereby commit to procure low-refraction, high-frequency semantic building blocks on a should-cost COTS basis. Personnel will utilize and combine these building blocks effectively to support the warfighter with streamlined, unimpeded flows of leading edge communication. Phew, what a relief, and it only took a 14-page directive to tell people to speak plainly. The follow-up GAO report will state “DoD Takes Steps to Ameliorate Memorandum Babble, Still Speaks Gibberish Most of Time.”
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Rapid Fire April 15, 2013: Defense Divestures

Apr 15, 2013 11:00 UTC

  • A down market leads not just to consolidation, but also to spinoffs and divestures. Bloomberg.
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