Army

BAE Systems in partnership with the Anniston Army Depot (ANAD) yesterday said it is refurbishing 440 M113A2 armored personnel carriers for Iraq through a foreign military sales (FMS) contract worth […]

General Dynamics [GD] UK yesterday said it recently commissioned a market study that estimated the Specialist Vehicle (SV) program it is working on has the potential to generate U.K. export […]

Navistar Defense LLC [NAV], Indigen Armor and SAIC [SAI] Tuesday said they will team for the coming U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) Ground Mobility Vehicle 1.1 (GMV 1.1) program. The […]

The U.S. Army plans to release a Request for Proposals (RFP) in mid-March for the Jordan JC4ISR Fiber Optic Wide Area Network Program. The RFP will be issued about March […]

Northrop Grumman [NOC] and DRS Technologies yesterday said they delivered the first Next Generation Automatic Test System (NGATS) to the  Army. A mobile, rapidly deployable and reconfigurable general purpose Automatic […]

Ford Motor Co. [F] and its team of Raytheon [RTN] and Future Force have decided not to bid for the Army-Marine Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV). “Ford has a long […]

Volvo Group and Finnish defense group Patria yesterday said they have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to cooperate to offer the Swedish Defense Materiel Administration (FMV) life-cycle support services […]

The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff yesterday issued Strategic Direction to the Joint Force, saying he expects “a new valuation of risk” as the joint force of 2020 […]

The President yesterday sent the the nomination of Heidi Shyu to be the Army’s acquisition chief to the Senate. Shyu has been acting assistant Secretary of the Army (Acquisition, Logistics […]

A $25 million after tax charge associated with ATK’s [ATK] Thiokol business and lower margins on commercial ammunition led the company yesterday to post lower third quarter earnings while sales […]