Army

Cobham yesterday said it was awarded an approximately $23.8 million to supply NATO forces with leading-edge vehicle mounted Improvised Explosive Device (IED) detection equipment. These systems will be delivered in […]

BAE Systems, original equipment manufacturer for the Bradley Fighting vehicle, is proposing ways to keep the 586 supplier-strong industrial base and Army modernization moving along instead of an Army plan […]

Despite being on the right path, the F-35’s affordability, or the ability to acquire aircraft in quantity and to sustain them over the life cycle, is of paramount concern, the […]

Textron Systems [TXT] Marine & Land Systems (TM&LS) yesterday said it was awarded a $113.4 million firm-fixed-price contract from the Army Contracting Command, Warren, Mich., to produce an additional 135 […]

MD Helicopters Inc. (MDHI) this week said its new MD 540F, a candidate for any potential Army Armed Scout Helicopter program, successfully completed the first phase of live fire exercises. […]

Finmeccanica’s AgustaWestland this week took the wraps off its Project Zero—a tiltrotor technology demonstrator already secretly flown over the past two years. The demonstrator was designed and built in less […]

BAE Systems this week said it has been awarded a $43 million cooperative agreement extension to lead the Army Research Laboratory’s (ARL) Micro Autonomous Systems and Technology (MAST) Collaborative Technology […]

Army aviation’s premier association tells members it is “absolutely going forward” with its annual professional forum, despite budget woes causing the Army to be unable to provide funds for soldiers […]

Though the Defense Department identified the cause of an engine blade crack on an F-35A that lead to a fleet-wide grounding, the long-term durability of the F135 engine is unknown, […]

The Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training and Instrumentation (PEO STRI) yesterday said it intends to re-compete the Systems Engineering and Technical Assistance (SETA) contract, W900KK-09-D-0006, currently with Electronic Consulting […]