Northrop Grumman [NOC] is working with the Army in support of Poland’s pending request with the U.S. government to acquire three more battalions of Integrated Air and Missile Defense Battle Command System (IBCS) capabilities, a company official told reporters this week. Bill Lamb, senior programs ...

The U.S. Air Force may issue a set of requirements for the commercial derivative KC-Y tanker this fall, followed by an acquisition decision next spring. “We’re waiting for requirements to come out from the Air Force,” Paul Waugh, the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center’s ...

Senior Army officials recently viewed a demonstration of the service’s first prototype of a hybrid-electric Bradley fighting vehicle, with the delivery of two test systems planned for September. Lt. Gen. Neil Thurgood, director of the Army’s Rapid Capabilities and Critical Technologies Office ...

Boeing [BA] and Norwegian defense firm Nammo have announced a successful test of its Ramjet 155 projectile weapon, which the two companies developed for the Army’s program to find new long-range artillery solutions. During the June 28 test at the Andøya Test Center in Norway, Boeing and Nammo ...

X-Bow Systems, the first new entrant in decades into the U.S. solid rocket motor business, is expecting to ramp up on one or more programs in the coming six to 12 months with an aim to garner a small but meaningful chunk of market share in five years, says the co-founder and chief of the […] ...

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) denied Textron Systems’ [TXT] protest of the Navy’s Mine Countermeasures Unmanned Surface Vehicle (MCM USV) contract, worth up to $123 million, the office said Aug. 10. The Navy originally awarded the contract to Bollinger Shipyards in April over two ...