The State Department recently approved over $700 million in possible Foreign Military Sales (FMS) of four AT-6C Wolverine Light Attack Aircraft to Tunisia, 16 MK-48 Mod 7 Advanced Technology torpedo conversion kits to the Netherlands, and 700 Advanced Field Artillery Tactical Data System (AFATDS) ...
Rich Abott
ManTech [MANT] said on Wednesday it was awarded a five-year $920 million task order to modernize sensors for Navy maritime reconnaissance and patrol aircraft in late 2019. Last week, during a quarterly earnings call with analysts, company officials said ManTech won the contract without giving ...
The Navy’s only manufacturer of nuclear reactors, BWX Technologies [BWXT], said if the Navy only procures one Virginia-class attack submarine in FY 2021 as requested, it could cause a financial hit to the company. President, CEO & Director of BWX Technologies Rex Geveden said in quarterly ...
The Arleigh Burke-class destroyer future USS Delbert D. Black (DDG-119) finished builder’s trials on Feb. 22, the Navy said Monday. DDG-119’s shipbuilder Huntington Ingalls Industries’ [HII] Ingalls Shipbuilding Division conducted the trials while the ship was underway in the Gulf of Mexico. ...
The Defense Department has moved directed energy (DE) funds out of the Missile Defense Agency and consolidated them under the office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, OUSD(R&E) led by Michael Griffin. DE is an example of shifting priorities within the department, ...
The Defense Department plans to use the proposed Mk 7 W93 submarine-launched nuclear ballistic missile (SLBM) warhead to eventually replace the current W76 and W88 warheads without increasing the size of the nuclear stockpile, according to a Department of Defense senior official. The U.S. currently ...
