Army

By Ann Roosevelt With a series of contract awards, BAE Systems‘ total award value for the Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles (FMTV) to date in 2008 is $3.7 billion. This […]

By Ann Roosevelt Multinational partnerships and progress on specific projects that would provide solutions to military problems are the key outcomes expected from the Concept Development and Experimentation Conference (CD&E) […]

Boeing [BA] and the Defense Department Joint Program Executive Office, Joint Tactical Radio System (JPEO JTRS) have concluded eight months of successful field tests, demonstrating how software-defined Ground Mobile Radios […]

Boeing [BA] Nov. 18 announced its CH-47F Chinook helicopter has been fielded by Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion, 227th Aviation Regiment, 1st Air Cavalry Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, Fort Hood, Texas. […]

By Ann Roosevelt Watching current theaters of operation, Raytheon [RTN] has been looking into modifying the current Stinger missile by adding a proximity fuse to be able to take on […]

The Army needs to report to Congress a "results-oriented plan" with specific information on its progress toward equipping and staffing its modular forces through 2019, the General Accountability Office (GAO) […]

By Ann Roosevelt Boeing [BA] demonstrated several advances in network-centric operations during the Army’s largest-ever Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) On-The-Move (OTM) 08 summer exercise, officials […]

By Emelie Rutherford The Pentagon plans to award around the end of March up to five initial contracts for a new all-terrain Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicle, and is […]

By Geoff Fein Austal USA has been awarded a Phase II $185 million contract to build one Joint High Speed Vessel (JHSV) with an option for nine more for the […]

Lockheed Martin [LMT] Nov. 12 announced its flight team successfully completed the first flight of its fully integrated Pathfinder advanced pilotage system, marking the beginning of the developmental test phase […]