Army

The Army needs more mobility and less survivability in its future weapon systems as its current composition of mobility, survivability and lethality is out of balance, the service’s top officer […]

Raytheon [RTN] has begun to build two major sub-components of the AN/TPY-2 ballistic missile defense radar for the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) under a $53 million contract issued Sept. 2. […]

TAMPA, Fla.—Independent operating testing that was completed earlier this month of an upgraded version of the Defense Department’s biometric database went well and the system is expected to be deployed […]

The Army’s A Battery, 3rd Air Defense Artillery were recently certified to operate Raytheon’s [RTN] Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensors (JLENS) radar to protect the National […]

For more than a decade the United States and its allies have held air superiority without a peer competitor wherever they flew, but NATO’s supreme allied commander Europe (SACEUR) and […]

The Army Intelligence Security Command (INSCOM) Friday awarded 21 companies the opportunity to bid on a $7.2 billion Global Intelligence Support Services (GISS) contract that runs from Sept. 12, 2014 […]

Exelis [XLS] Friday said it was awarded an $8 million contract to provide the Army with Generation 3 night vision equipment. The award is under the U.S. Army-managed OMNI VIII […]

The Defense Department requested to reprogram nearly $2 billion in fiscal year 2014 Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) funds, chief among them purchasing additional aircraft and supporting higher operational tempos for […]

As the Defense Department’s Future Vertical Lift concept works its way towards becoming an official program of record, the Joint Staff is trying to determine if it can shorten the […]

The Lockheed Martin [LMT] team bidding for the Army/Marine Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV) program said Friday it successfully completed the government’s Production Readiness Review (PRR) at the company’s Camden, […]