Army

ATK [ATK] and Raytheon [RTN] last week won initial contracts totaling $20.7 million to begin the Excalibur Increment IB effort. The Joint Munitions and Lethality Life Cycle Management Command Acquisition […]

By Calvin Biesecker Boeing [BA] on Friday said it has agreed to acquire Tapestry Solutions, a small California-based firm specializing in real-time logistics visibility and logistics modeling and simulation, opening […]

L-3 Communications [LLL] last week said it presented the first C-27J Joint Cargo Aircraft (JCA) to the Army-Air Force joint program office on schedule and on budget. This was the […]

By Ann Roosevelt As soon as today, a meeting between the leaders of the Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) and Air Combat Command (ACC) could resolve a concept of […]

By Emelie Rutherford The House passed yesterday the final compromise versions of fiscal year 2009 defense appropriations and authorization legislation–which call for continuing DDG-1000 destroyer production while potentially reviving the […]

By Ann Roosevelt Battelle and the Army Aviation and Missile Command (AMCOM) are working together on the Continuous Technology Refreshment (CTR) program to address the decades old problem of obsolescence […]

By Ann Roosevelt The Army’s Future Combat Systems (FCS) program yesterday announced the successful firing of the first artillery projectile from the Manned Ground Vehicle (MGV) Non-Line-of- Sight Cannon (NLOS-C) […]

By Emelie Rutherford The Senate’s Wednesday night passage of a sparsely amended defense authorization bill kicked into high gear House-Senate negotiations over differences between each chamber’s version of the legislation […]

General Dynamics‘ [GD] C4 Systems last week announced it was awarded a $70 million contract to equip the 5th Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division Stryker Brigade Combat Team (5/2 SBCT) with […]

General Dynamics [GD] UK displays the latest rapid improvements it can deliver to soldiers in response to the urgent operational requirements (UOR) of British forces at a British Army demonstration […]