Army
By Matthew Beinart
@mbeinart22
The Navy’s FY 2020 budget request pushed back funding for the planned Large Surface Combatant (LSC) to the mid-2020s while laying out the program’s schedule, expecting to release an RFP by 2024. Officials previously said they were hoping to have the LSC on contract by the early to mid-2020s, ...
The Army is planning to stretch its procurement of Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicles (AMPV) per its effort to reduce buys for certain programs to fully fund future weapon system development, with plans to drop fiscal year 2021 procurement by 30 percent from 204 to 143 vehicles. The service’s ...
The Navy’s FY 2020 budget request pushed back funding for the planned Large Surface Combatant (LSC) to the mid-2020s while laying out the program’s schedule, expecting to release an RFP by 2024. Officials previously said they were hoping to have the LSC on contract by the early to mid-2020s, ...
Thirty years ago, on March 19, 1989, the Bell [TXT]-Boeing [BA] V-22 Osprey first broke contact with the ground, initiating a program that would suffer tragic trials before entering service and becoming one of the most in-demand combat aircraft in the U.S. military fleet. More than 375 Osprey ...
The U.S. Defense Department plans to spend about $6.6 billion on continuous capability development and delivery (C2D2) for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter from 2019 through 2024, according to its just-released fiscal year 2020 budget proposal. Lockheed Martin‘s [LMT] F-35 has been in low-rate ...
The U.S. Army has dedicated $12 million in its fiscal 2020 budget request to kickstart development of a Future Unmanned Aircraft System (FUAS) that eventually will replace the RQ-7B Shadow drone at the brigade level. In its fiscal 2020 base budget, the Army set aside $12.1 million to buy 12 †...
CBP Seeks Handheld Device to ID Chemicals and Explosives Customs and Border Protection is conducting a market survey to learn about qualified vendors and their size for potentially supplying a handheld system with both Raman and Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy analysis technology for the ...
Rapiscan Awarded $4M to Provide Trace Detection Systems to International Airport OSI Systems [OSIS] says its Rapiscan Systems security division has received a $4 million order from an international airport for multiple units of its Itemiser 4DX explosive and narcotics trace detection system. The ...
