The Advanced Turbine Engine Company (ATEC) on Feb. 19 lodged a protest with the Government Accountability Office on the U.S. Army’s recent decision to award General Electric [GE] a $517 million Engineering and Manufacturing Development contract for its next generation of UH-60 Black Hawk and ...

Russia’s ZALA Aero Group, the unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) division of Kalashnikov, unveiled a “kamikaze” drone–the KUB-BLA–at the International Defense Exhibition and Conference (IDEX) in Abu Dhabi on Feb. 17. The small UAS is designed to have a maximum speed of ...

The Aerospace Industries Association (AIA) is urging policy makers to consider the weight, speed, and range of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) so as to allow U.S. company exports of such systems without running the risk that foreign countries could use some of the exports to proliferate cruise ...

The Naval Air Systems Command has awarded Bell [TXT] a more than $240 million contract as part of the delivery of 12 AH-1Z Viper attack helicopters to Bahrain under the foreign military sales program, the Pentagon announced Feb. 7. The work is to be completed in August, 2022. Bell has been angling ...

A variant of the U.S. Army’s Future Vertical Lift (FVL) Capability Set 1 is a “likely replacement” for the U.S. Special Operations Command’s fleet of A/MH-6M Little Bird (MELB) helicopters, James Smith, the SOCOM acquisition executive, told attendees at the NDIA Special ...

U.S. Special Operations Command wants to make the Lockheed Martin [LMT] AC-130J gunship “more crew friendly” and to reduce crew size through artificial intelligence and machine learning, James Smith, the acquisition executive for SOCOM, told the 30th Annual Special Operations ...