Army

Iran is amassing materials such as tungsten copper and specialized aluminum and titanium sheets that are key to production of missiles, including long-range weapons, The Wall Street Journal reported. The […]

By Ann Roosevelt FORT MYER, Va.–Army Secretary Pete Geren Monday handed over the keys to the first six Neighborhood Electric Vehicles (NEV) being leased from Chrysler‘s Global Electric Mororcars (GEM) […]

By Emelie Rutherford Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) members said they plan to question nominees for four top Defense Department posts tomorrow about aircraft and shipbuilding efforts, but don’t see […]

By Calvin Biesecker The Army’s Biometrics Task Force (BTF) last month selected 12 firms to compete for up to $497 million in service work and even hardware over the next […]

By Emelie Rutherford The future of the Army’s troubled Armed Reconnaissance Helicopter (ARH) effort relies on Congress’ willingness to fund a revised program along with upgrades to the legacy OH-58 […]

The first batch of more than 100 enhanced light tanks from BAE Systems, used for scouting out the enemy, have been delivered to training units in the British army, complete […]

By Ann Roosevelt BAE Systems just received a contract from the government for a small quantity of its new Q-Sight helmet displays for evaluation, according to a company official. "They’re […]

By Ann Roosevelt Boeing [BA] has responded with information on the AH-6 Phoenix and a Scout-optimized AH-64 Apache helicopters to the Army’s sources sought to see if industry had the […]

The Army last month awarded Lockheed Martin [LMT], Northrop Grumman [NOC], Unisys [UIS], and Systems & Processes Engineering Corp., 10-year indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contracts under the potential $429.4 million […]

By Emelie Rutherford The Pentagon’s request for the supplemental war-funding bill is not complete and may cost $69.7 billion or more, depending on decisions regarding force levels in Afghanistan, the […]