Army

The House worked through proposed defense budget amendments yesterday related to war spending and Libya, yet shied away from substantive debate on weapon systems. The chamber continued debating the $530 […]

General Dynamics’ [GD] AxleTech International said the company’s St. Etienne, France, facility has delivered the first drivetrain and suspension components to Force Protection Europe Ltd. (FPE) for the United Kingdom’s […]

The Australian Defense Force (ADF) is about to embark on the largest disposal of military equipment since World War II–replacing or upgrading as much as 85 percent of its equipment […]

Lockheed Martin [LMT] yesterday said it recently delivered the first VNsight production unit for the Army’s AH-64 Apache Attack Helicopter, which adds a low-light-level display capability to the Apache’s combat-proven […]

Private equity investor and sometimes corporate raider Carl Icahn has acquired a 9.5 percent stake in Oshkosh Truck Corp. [OSK], the diversified manufacturer of commercial, defense and emergency trucks and […]

Army Space and Missile Defense
Command/Army Forces Strategic Command revealed its High Energy Laser
 Technology Demonstrator ( HEL TD) with the recently completed laser beam control 
system integrated on a tactical […]

The Army is pushing hard to meet the ever-increasing demand for unmanned aerial systems (UAS) of all sizes and payloads as combat flight hours mount for the smallest systems to […]

U.K. Defence Secretary Liam Fox outlined a new vision of how a reformed military should be structured and managed, including giving service chiefs increased power over their budgets and creating […]

Lockheed Martin [LMT] recently received a $184.3 million contract from the  Army for 29 Persistent Threat Detection Systems (PTDS) to support coalition forces in Afghanistan, the company said. In 2010, […]

Textron Systems [TXT] said yesterday that the  Army has exercised a contract option of $49.6 million for 65 additional M1117 Armored Security Vehicles (ASV). The ASVs will be manufactured at […]