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    Boeing Gains $77 Million Pact For LAIRCM Laser Tracker Gear The Air Force gave the McDonnell Douglas Corp. unit of The Boeing Co. [BA] a $77 million contract change for […]

  • Defense Watch

    Defense Watch

    The Latest Word On Trends And Developments In Aerospace And Defense D-Day. Mark the calendar. Put the Air Force acquisition shop on speed-dial. The Defense Acquisition Board meets today to […]

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  • Northrop Grumman Demonstrates Advanced EHF Satellite Interface With Terminals

    Northrop Grumman Demonstrates Advanced EHF Satellite Interface With Terminals

    Northrop Grumman [NOC] said earlier this month it has demonstrated the interface compatibility of the next-generation Advanced Extremely High Frequency (EHF) military communications satellite with user ground terminals using the […]

  • General Dynamics Protests Lockheed Martin CAMC2 Win

    General Dynamics Protests Lockheed Martin CAMC2 Win

    By Ann Roosevelt General Dynamics [GD] C4 Systems Feb. 8 protested to the Government Accountability Office the Army’s award to Lockheed Martin [LMT] of production and support for the Common […]

  • Edgewood Chem/Bio Center to test Chemical and Biological Detectors

    Edgewood Chem/Bio Center to test Chemical and Biological Detectors

    The Army’s Edgewood Chemical Biological Center Technology Evaluation Team will be sponsoring Technology Readiness Evaluations in the current fiscal year to evaluate advanced chemical detector technologies of Toxic Industrial Chemicals […]

  • JFCOM Lays Out 2008 Plans For Noble Resolve

    JFCOM Lays Out 2008 Plans For Noble Resolve

    By Calvin Biesecker The U.S. Joint Forces Command (JFCOM) and U.S Northern Command (NORTHCOM) have begun planning for this year’s experimentation campaign for homeland defense and military support of civilian […]

  • Army Orders More AeroVironment Raven UAVs

    Army Orders More AeroVironment Raven UAVs

    AeroVironment Inc. [AVAV] Feb. 7 announced a $45.8 million Army award for additional RQ-11B Raven small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) and associated services by the exercise of a one-year option […]

  • Army, Navy Fire Scouts: Similar Look, But Treading Different Paths

    Army, Navy Fire Scouts: Similar Look, But Treading Different Paths

    Looking across the production line at Northrop Grumman‘s [NOC] Mississippi facility, it’s hard for anyone to tell the difference between the Army and Navy variants of the MQ-8B Fire Scout. […]

  • Report Slams SLAMRAAM For Lack Of Criteria

    Report Slams SLAMRAAM For Lack Of Criteria

    The Surface-Launched Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile (SLAMRAAM) program lacks effective evaluation yardsticks because the Army has relied on a plan provided by Raytheon Co. [RTN] instead of following more […]

  • Army Holds Fast To FCS Funding Plan

    Army Holds Fast To FCS Funding Plan

    By Jen DiMascio Despite warnings from the secretary of defense and members of Congress, the Army maintains it can afford and has planned for its top modernization program–the Future Combat […]