Army

By Emelie Rutherford The House dealt a major blow to the waning effort to extend production of F-22s yesterday by stripping from the fiscal year 2010 defense appropriations bill, by […]

Textron’s [TXT] Marine & Land Systems recently announced a new letter contract potentially valued at $200 million for the Armored Security Vehicle (ASV). The contract, with $99 million currently funded […]

European Aeronautic Defence and Space Co. (EADS) North America yesterday announced it completed a series of successful "high/hot" flight demonstrations of its UH- 72A Lakota Light Utility Helicopter (LUH), meeting […]

Boeing [BA] and SkyHook International Inc. yesterday announced that the design of the SkyHook Heavy Lift Vehicle (HLV) has reached the configuration freeze milestone, meaning the aircraft’s overall performance and […]

The Army awarded Lockheed Martin [LMT] a $142 million follow-on production contract for the Apache Arrowheadr system, the combat-proven, Modernized Target Acquisition Designation Sight/Pilot Night Vision Sensor (M-TADS/PNVS) for the […]

By Ann Roosevelt The Army is continuing and expanding the work of the Future Force Integration Directorate (FFID) and it’s Evaluation Task Force (AETF) far beyond its initial work for […]

By Ann Roosevelt Congressional actions, though not complete, are pointing the way to new production for General Dynamics‘ [GD] Stryker family of wheeled, armored vehicles. Most recently, the House Appropriations […]

Netfires LLC, a joint Raytheon [RTN]-Lockheed Martin [LMT] venture, yesterday said it completed the first moving target test flight of the Non Line-of-Sight Launch System (NLOS LS) Precision Attack Missile […]

By Ann Roosevelt Empire Challenge 09, the sixth annual live joint and coalition intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) interoperability demonstration, is under way focusing on providing ISR support to warfighters […]

By Calvin Biesecker Lockheed Martin [LMT] yesterday said it has agreed to acquire Florida-based Gyrocam Systems LLC, a developer and supplier of gyrostablized optical surveillance systems mainly for use on […]