Army

Until congressional defense committees receive a report on the Army’s plan to replace M113 vehicles with Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicles (AMPV), including a look at a wheeled medical variant, a House […]

By May 21, the Army wants industry responses to a Request for Information (RFI) for a ground vehicle active protection hard kill counter measures (HKCM) system. The RFI from Army […]

Cubic Corp.’s [CUB] Defense Systems unit April 29 said it was awarded a three-year, $35 million contract for support and repair of the Area Weapons Effects Simulator (AWES) system at […]

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) looked at the Army’s rationale for waiving the competitive prototyping requirement for the Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle (AMPV) program, and found it “sound.” The Army could […]

Lockheed Martin [LMT] April 24 said the Army awarded it a $25 million contract to design, build and test a 60-kilowatt electric laser to be integrated and tested in a […]

Industry has until May 9 to respond to four Requests for Information (RFI) to aid the Army in determining if it should pursue Network Integration Evaluation (NIE) strategies to address […]

With the Army, Sikorsky [UTX] has successfully demonstrated optionally piloted flight of a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter, something the company calls a significant step toward providing autonomous cargo delivery function […]

The Lockheed Martin [LMT] team April 21 said its Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV) has achieved 100,000 miles in the government’s Engineering and Manufacturing Development (EMD) reliability, availability and maintainability (RAM) […]

The Defense Department reported four programs in its 2013 Selected Acquisition Report (SAR) summary with critical or significant Nunn-McCurdy unit cost breaches to their current or original Acquisition Program Baseline […]

The Excalibur Program Office April 3 said it transitioned to Increment Ib production and heads toward a summer decision on full-rate production, now that it has completed assembly of the […]