Army

BAE Systems yesterday announced the opening of a new facility that will produce armor kits under Army and Marine contracts totaling $34 million to protect Army ground vehicles. The 33,000-square-foot […]

The Army awarded EADS North America a contract for five additional UH-72A Lakota Light Utility Helicopters (LUH) Jan. 15, 2009, bringing the total number of aircraft on contract to 128. […]

By Emelie Rutherford The Marine Corps is "aggressively" working on plans to quickly purchase an under-development breed of all-terrain mine-resistant vehicles for troops in Afghanistan in response to an urgent […]

General Dynamics [GD] United Kingdom Limited, in partnership with Rockwell Collins [COL] and QinetiQ, won a competition for an approximately $4.3 million contract from the U.K. Ministry of Defence (MoD) […]

AeroVironment [AVAV] (AV) yesterday announced that the Army has ordered additional RQ-11B Ravenr small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) and associated services for its fiscal year 2009 requirements by the exercise […]

CSC [CSC] yesterday announced the Air Force has awarded the company a task order with an estimated total two-year contract value of $80 million to provide a comprehensive range of […]

Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. [UTX] achieved a major milestone in its X2 TECHNOLOGY ™ demonstrator program by successfully ground testing the aircraft with the pusher propeller installed and spinning for the […]

The Army TACOM Life Cycle Management Command has awarded General Dynamics Land Systems, a business unit of General Dynamics [GD], a multi-year, $81 million contract to upgrade 30 M1 Abram […]

EMS Technologies [ELMG] yesterday said that Lockheed Martin [LMT] awarded EMS Defense & Space a contract for production and capability enhancement work on the millimeter wave radar antenna as part […]

By Geoff Fein The Navy was hard at work in 2008 implementing open architecture into its aviation, space, submarine and weapons systems domains, as well as Marine Corps programs. Aside […]