SHAH ALAM: The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) will hold an official work visit to Boustead Naval Shipyard (BNS) in Lumut, Perak with the Dewan Rakyat Speaker Tan Sri Johari Abdul on October 5. The visit was to check on the progress of the Second-Generation Patrol Vessel project or better known […]
SHAH ALAM: Abandon ship, scrap the LCS Part II. The forensic report on the LCS programme, first made public in the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) report was declassified yesterday. The declassified report is published on the Parlimen website. You can go to the website above to read the whole report […]
PETALING JAYA: IT is reported today that Boustead Naval Shipyard has awarded two contracts for its sister companies as part of the SGPV programme. As I had mentioned before updates on the SGPV programme is coming in drips. Fun for BNS of course but not for us the defence junkies! […]
PETALING JAYA: The ‘show” signing for the SGPV contract is expected to be held at the DSA 2012 show to be held from the 16 to 19 of this month. However, two weeks before the show we are still looking for more details of the systems to be integrated on […]
Updated to say that Damen Schelde IS participating. PETALING JAYA: The buzz in the industry is that Damen Schelde, the other finalist for the SGPV contract, has backed out from Lima 2011. Damen Schelde has not responded to my email for confirmation but if its true, their decision to back […]
PETALING JAYA: Did DCNS win the SGPV deal? I have no idea. But Datuk Zaid Ibrahim says so. Its funny how politicians try to explain some issues but also at the same time make an ass of themselves by making some nonsensical comments. Of course lah, the ships will be […]
SHAH ALAM: As expected the Gowind multi-mission corvette tops the Malaysian Defence polls. Its not official mind you but it seemed every one is following the cue. Even Utusan Malaysia had claimed that the Gowind is the favourite. Read here.. Yes, the buzz in the industry is that the DCNS […]
SHAH ALAM: After crunching the numbers and a few words with those in the know, I must concede the billion ringgit price tag for the proposed SGPV/LCS is probably justified, with a few caveats of course. 1) One wonders why the ceiling price for the project was announced when the […]
KUALA LUMPUR: Auditor general report. The past week, the local media had a field day reporting on the 2006 Auditor-General Report (scroll down the left to find the report in PDF form). After a week of media frenzy which culminated in Saturday’s reports – on the new KPI points for […]
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