Just after telling Reuters news service that it would make the CSAR-X contract award next month, the Air Force has once more delayed a decision on the award—now pushed up to November, reports Gannett News Service. The reason given: The Air Force needs more time to consider the aircraft bids. Gannett says that now the project won’t make the Defense Acquisition Board calendar until October. Considering Ken Krieg, Pentagon acquisition guru, already has blessed the combat search and rescue helicopter replacement program, we would expect it to sail right through.
The Pentagon has concluded a new agreement to buy laser-guidance kits that turn rockets into drone-killing weapons. BAE Systems and the Defense Department announced a framework deal of up to seven years for 25,000 Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System guidance kits annually for the U.S. military.