The Defense Department’s Joint Counter-small Unmanned Aircraft System Office (JCO) earlier this month expanded its list of recommended vendor solutions for countering-drones as a service to include offerings from CACI International [CACI] and Rafael Systems Global Sustainment (RSGS). The two ...

Earlier this month, the Army conducted a set of missile defense flight tests that used a new prototype communications device that connects the battle management system to a Patriot missile interceptor. During Integrated Flight Test-2 at White Sands Missile Range, N.M., on Nov. 17, Army Integrated ...

The Army this summer successfully tested new software capabilities of its forward area command and control system integrated with a number of sensors and defeat capabilities against multiple small drone threats simultaneously and in real-time, Northrop Grumman [NOC], the supplier of the integrated ...

The Army’s top acquisition official on Monday cited Guided Multiple Launch Rocket Systems (GMLRS), Patriot missiles and High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) launchers as munitions programs that could “potentially” benefit from the ability to use multi-year contracts for procurement. ...

The Army is still planning to select a winner for its Future Long Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA) program “this calendar year,” the service’s top acquisition official has confirmed. While a production award for the UH-60 Black Hawk replacement program had been slated for this fall, Doug Bush, ...

The Army in early 2023 hopes to conduct demonstrations of systems that can detect and defeat relatively large small unmanned aircraft systems (sUAS) using kinetic effects and, if successful, may award prototype contracts. The Joint Counter-sUAS Office (JCO) says the upcoming competitive ...