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  26 mars 2020 | International, Terrestre

  Remington Arms offers manufacturing space to produce medical supplies needed to fight Covid-19

  Remington Arms has offered to donate manufacturing space for hospital supplies in New York. CEO of the gun manufacturer, Ken D'Arcy, wrote a letter Monday, March 23, to Governor Andrew Cuomo and President Donald Trump offering "approximately one million square feet of unused and available manufacturing space" at the Ilion plant, the Ithaca Journal reported. Cuomo issued an executive order for all nonessential workers to remain home, and the company announced Friday it would shut down in compliance until April 30. D'Arcy said the company would be honored to help produce ventilators, surgical masks, hospital beds or any other products to aid the efforts to combat the coronavirus. Cuomo said Tuesday that the state has 7,000 ventilators and needs 30,000 for an anticipated surge of patients. Remington Arms has joined several other companies to offer to help fight back against the coronavirus pandemic. Several distilleries have started producing hand sanitizer to help fill the shortage. New York has more than 30,000 confirmed cases and 285 deaths. The nation-high figures are driven mostly by New York City. Herkimer County Administrator James Wallace said Remington also requested permission to continue producing firearms for military and police use. https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2020/03/26/remington-arms-offers-manufacturing-space-for-medical-supplies-needed-to-fight-covid-19

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  23 juin 2021 | International, Aérospatial

  German government ups the pressure in $1.1B Poseidon purchase petition

  As is the case with other large military investments awaiting a decision, the aircraft acquisition would exceed current budget projections here.

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  8 juillet 2020 | International, Aérospatial, Naval

  House Appropriators Add 12 F-35s, Boost Weapons Spending, But…

  "To us, it means that there is going to be much more tension and debate over future modernization programs as flat investment will not enable DoD to recapitalize in a timely and militarily relevant pace," says defense analyst Byron Callan. By COLIN CLARKon July 07, 2020 at 7:38 PM WASHINGTON: House appropriators made their first cut at the annual defense spending bill today, approving spending $3.5 billion below the Trump Administration's request — although lawmakers added a substantial $4.1 billion for several weapons systems, including 12 additional F-35s. Overall, the House Appropriations Committee trimmed $3.5 billion from the Trump Administration's 2021 budget request while still fully paying for a 3% pay raise and force structure increases to all but the Marines, who will lose 2,100 people. The appropriators approval of an increase in F-35 buys makes it unlikely the House Armed Services Committee's skepticism of the Joint Strike Fighter program will prevail. The HASC added no more planes above the administration request for 79 aircraft of all three models and docked at least a score of supporting line items by a total of $561 million. By contrast the SASC added $1.36 billion to buy more Air Force F-35As, Marine F-35Bs, and Navy F-35Cs, plus spare parts. In other bump ups, the HAC funds 11 V-22 aircraft, adding $1.1 billion to buy two more than the request. It also adds three P-8A Poseidon aircraft for the Navy Reserve, three more than the request for an additional $510 million. And echoing the House authorizing committee's support, the HAC added 16 MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicles to the Pentagon request, for a cost of $344 million. But making sense of the HAC-D bill is difficult because it's not yet clear what and where they've cut, as veteran defense stock analyst Byron Callan notes. It all gets complicated by the CARES Act and adjustments to contracts that have been made. Overall, Callan says, it looks as if fiscal 2020 — last year — may have been the peak of whatever Trump defense boost there has been. But it's all uncertain. “Absent the pandemic budget impacts, however, the markups so far suggest that FY20 was a peak for DoD investment. This does not mean investment is at the peak and headed fast downhill in FY21 and beyond,” Callan writes. “To us, it means that there is going to be much more tension and debate over future modernization programs as flat investment will not enable DoD to recapitalize in a timely and militarily relevant pace.” https://breakingdefense.com/2020/07/house-appropriators-add-12-f-35s-boost-weapons-spending-but/