Army

By Emelie Rutherford Senate debate on whether to keep funding in the Pentagon policy bill for aircraft efforts opposed by the Obama administration could start as soon as this week. […]

Cobham yesterday said it has been awarded a five-year, portential $110 million Indefinite Delivery, Definite Quantity (IDDQ) contract from the Army to provide Microclimate Cooling Systems to the Air Warrior […]

By Ann Roosevelt The Army is working to revise the concept and architecture of its modernization plans by the fall in the wake of the Defense Department’s late June cancellation […]

By Ann Roosevelt The Army and Boeing [BA] are negotiating the changes to come from the reorganization of the Future Combat System (FCS) and termination of the manned ground vehicle […]

AeroVironment (AV) [AVAV] yesterday said it has accomplished a technical milestone never before achieved: the controlled hovering flight of an air vehicle system with two flapping wings that carries its […]

By Emelie Rutherford An official overseeing the purchase of new all-terrain mine-resistant trucks said yesterday he is "pretty confident" Oshkosh Corp. [OSK] will build all 5,244 planned vehicles over the […]

By Ann Roosevelt The Army is working collaboratively and in sync with U.S. Joint Forces Command (JFCOM) and the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) as it revises its modernization strategy […]

By Emelie Rutherford Oshkosh Corp. [OSK] beat four competitors for the first order for new Mine Resistant Ambush Protected All-Terrain Vehicles (M-ATVs) designed for Afghanistan’s terrain, though the Pentagon still […]

The Army’s Research, Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM) has issued two Requests for Proposals (RFP) for two contract vehicles worth a potential $485 million combined that would permit various work […]

By Emelie Rutherford The Pentagon is expected to order as soon as today thousands of a new off-road variety of the Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicle (MRAP) for troops in […]