Army
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ArmyFourth Army Unit Receives New Boeing CH-47F Chinook
Boeing [BA] yesterday announced that a fourth Army unit has fielded the CH-47F Chinook helicopter. The unit, Company B, 3rd General Support Aviation Battalion (GSAB), 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade, 82nd […]
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Air ForceBillions For MRAPs, Armored Vehicles In Obama War Funding Plan
By Emelie Rutherford The Obama administration released last Thursday night its request to Congress for $75.5 billion in supplemental-war funding, including $2.7 billion for mine-resistant vehicles, $9.8 billion for armored […]
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Army
ITT Receives 5th Largest Ever Night Vision Goggle Order
ITT Corp. [ITT] April 7 said it has received the fifth largest order in company history with a $121 million order from the Army Research, Development & Engineering Command Acquisition […]
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Army
Longbow Fire Control Radar EU Takes Successful Flight On Apache Block III
The Longbow Limited Liability Co., a joint venture of Northrop Grumman [NOC] and Lockheed Martin [LMT], said the recent first powered flight of the Radar Electronics Unit (REU) configuration of […]
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Army
MEADS International Taps Steven Barnoske As New President
The MEADS International Board of Directors announced Steven Barnoske April 1 succeeded Jim Cravens as president of the international joint venture developing the next generation of ground-mobile air and missile […]
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Army
Force Protection Inc. And NP Aerospace To Build More U.K. Wolfhounds
Force Protection Inc. (FRPT) and NP Aerospace Limited, a subsidiary of The Morgan Crucible Company plc, this week jointly announced an approximately $122.6 million award for 97 Wolfhound heavy tactical […]
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Army
Retain And Accelerate Army FCS Spin Out, Gates Recommends
By Ann Roosevelt Potential sweeping changes in defense priorities would not necessarily change the Army’s initial technology spin out of its $160 billion Future Combat Systems (FCS) modernization program. "We […]
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Army
‘Improved Arrow’ Test Successful, Israel Says
By B.C. Kessner With recent events and speeches nudging missile defense back toward center stage, Israel made a statement of its own Tuesday with a successful test of an "improved" […]
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Army
Soldiers Complete First Limited User Test of WIN-T Increment 2
This week, soldiers of the Army’s 4th Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division in Fort Lewis, Wash., and 3rd Infantry Division in Fort Stewart, Ga., completed a Limited User Test (LUT) of […]
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Air Force
Lawmakers Balk At Proposed Hits To Missile Defense, F-22, FCS
By Emelie Rutherford Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle launched immediate campaigns yesterday to reverse Defense Secretary Robert Gates’ proposed reduction in missile-defense funding, termination of the F-22 jet’s […]