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Dan Parsons
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ArmyOshkosh Wins Nearly $300 Million In Contracts To Rehab Army Heavy Truck Fleet
Oshkosh Defense [OSK] in the past week scored more than $284 million in contracts to recapitalize the Army’s family of heavy utility trucks. The Army’s Tank-Automotive and Armaments Command (TACOM) […]
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ArmyPentagon’s Innovation And Tech Hub Announces $12 Million In New Agreements
In the first half of the current fiscal year, the Pentagon’s experimental technology hub awarded $12.3 million in contracts. The Defense Innovation unit Experimental (DIUx), established under former Secretary of […]
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ArmyArmy’s Stryker-Mounted Laser Knocks 50 Drones From Sky In Recent Experiment
The Army is increasingly concerned with the prevalence of weaponized unmanned aerial systems (UAS), which both near-peer and non-state adversaries have demonstrated to great effect in recent conflicts. One of […]
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Air ForceAir Force F-35As Arrive In U.K. For Inaugural Deployment
The first Europe-bound training deployment of the conventional takeoff and landing F-35A Joint Strike Fighter was made official Saturday when several of the jets touched down at Royal Air Force […]
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UncategorizedTrump Says NATO ‘No Longer Obsolete’ But Allies Must Pay Up For Collective Defense
President Donald Trump on April 11 reversed his claim that NATO is obsolete, but continued his crusade for member states to spend more on defense to include potentially repaying the […]
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ArmyKratos Turns Russian T-72 Into Unmanned Tank Target
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions recently converted a Russian T-72 tank to operate as an unmanned target for U.S. Army gunners. In response to an Army requirement for a tank […]
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Air ForceAir Force Drops Largest Non-Nuclear ‘Mother Of All Bombs’ On ISIS Tunnel Complex in Afghanistan
The Air Force on Wednesday night dropped the largest non-nuclear bomb ever developed on an Islamic State tunnel complex in Afghanistan. Designated the GBU-43, the 30-foot, 22,000-pound guided munition is […]
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Navy Will Delay H-60 Service Life Extension Without Defense Budget
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. – Without a fiscal year 2017 budget in place, the Navy will delay a service life extension plan necessary to fly its Sikorsky MH-60R/S Seahawk helicopters into […]
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$3.4B Multi-Year Apache Contract Expedites Future Foreign Military Sales, Saves Army 10 Percent
A recent five-year, $3.4 billion multi-year contract for Boeing [BA] AH-64E Apache gunships not only saves the Army and Saudi Arabia money for each helicopter, but establishes a relatively swift […]
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Pentagon OKs Initial Production of Marine Corps CH-53K Heavy Lift Helicopter
The Pentagon on April 4 gave the go-ahead for production of the Marine Corps’ new $27 billion CH-53K heavy lift helicopter. Following a review of the engineering and manufacturing development, […]