Army

In the wake of some uncertainty about acquisition timelines for the Army’s Ground Combat Vehicle (GCV) arising from budget documents, the Army clarified extensions for two phases of the program. […]

The Army is on schedule to award in May a second multi-year (MYII) production contract for the CH-47F heavy-lift helicopter to prime contractor Boeing [BA], program officials said. “Everyone wants […]

In the wake of some uncertainty about acquisition timelines for the Army’s Ground Combat Vehicle (GCV) arising from budget documents, the Army clarified extensions for two phases of the program. […]

AeroVironment Inc.(AVAV) yesterday said it received $13.8 million in incremental funding on March 30 from the Army for continued performance of a contract action with a not-to-exceed value of $65.5 […]

The Army’s fiscal year 2014 base budget request of $129.7 billion is down $4.9 billion over the land force’s request for FY ’13, with the network continuing to be the […]

Bell Helicopter [TXT] yesterday unveiled the Bell V-280 ValorTM, it is tiltrotor offering for the Joint Multi Role/Future Vertical Lift (FVL) Technology Demonstrator (JMR/TD). “The introduction of the Bell V-280 […]

The Army’s fiscal year 2014 budget request continues to support modernization leading to technological advantage, requesting $592.2 million for continued research, development, test and evaluation of the restructured Ground Combat […]

The Obama administration’s missile defense priorities in the fiscal year 2014 budget total some $9.2 billion, which includes $7.6 billion for the Missile Defense Agency (MDA), while making key changes […]

The National Security Agency (NSA) recently certified General Dynamics‘ [GD]  new ProtecD@R Network (KG-202) data-at-rest encryptor to secure information classified at the Top Secret level and below on removable and […]

Success and secrecy surrounding U.S. special operations missions around the world–such as the death of Osama bin Laden and the capture of Saddam Hussein– lean too far toward short-term goals […]