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Coast Guard’s NSC Fleet Cost Estimates Rise Due To Labor, Commodity Issues
By Calvin Biesecker The unit cost estimates for the Coast Guard’s planned fleet of eight National Security Cutters (NSC) have increased between $60 million to $90 million per vessel due […]
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Failure Review Board To Investigate New JASSM Detonation Failure
By Marina Malenic The Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile (JASSM) program resumed flight testing last week with yet another failed detonation, the Air Force has said. Testing resumed last Friday with […]
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ArmyArmy Orders Five More UH-72A LUH From EADS North America
The Army awarded EADS North America a contract for five additional UH-72A Lakota Light Utility Helicopters (LUH) Jan. 15, 2009, bringing the total number of aircraft on contract to 128. […]
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InternationalAgustaWestland Wins EDA Helicopter Tactics Study
Finmeccanica‘s AgustaWestland, yesterday announced it has recently been awarded a contract by the European Defence Agency (EDA) to conduct a six month Helicopter Tactics Program (HTP) Implementation Study. Financial terms […]
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Air ForceSenate Rejects Adding DoD Weapon Funds To Stimulus
By Emelie Rutherford The Senate frowned on Republican attempts to add weapon-system spending to the massive economic-stimulus bill the chamber worked to pass last night. Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) failed […]
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International
AgustaWestland Wins EDA Helicopter Tactics Study
AgustaWestland, a Finmeccanica company, announced this week it has recently been awarded a contract by the European Defence Agency (EDA) to conduct a six month Helicopter Tactics Programme (HTP) Implementation […]
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International
Honeywell Receives U.K. Order For T-Hawk MAVs
Honeywell [HON] this week announced it has received an order via Foreign Military Sales, for six T-Hawk MAV (Micro Air Vehicle) systems from the U.S. Navy, which is the contracting […]
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International
GDUK, Rockwell Collins, QinetiQ Win UK MoD Work To Improve Combat Effectiveness
General Dynamics [GD] United Kingdom Limited, in partnership with Rockwell Collins [COL] and QinetiQ, won a competition for an approximately $4.3 million contract from the U.K. Ministry of Defence (MoD) […]
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Army
Brogan: Marines "Aggressively" Working M-ATV, One Final Vendor Desired
By Emelie Rutherford The Marine Corps is "aggressively" working on plans to quickly purchase an under-development breed of all-terrain mine-resistant vehicles for troops in Afghanistan in response to an urgent […]
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CyberCoast Guard Leveraging Navy OA Efforts To Boost Commonality, Interoperability
By Geoff Fein The Coast Guard is looking to leverage off of the Navy’s open architecture efforts, not only to improve commonality between the two sea services, but to push […]