Kongsberg is in the process of finalizing a $500 million extension with the Army to take the Common Remotely Operated Weapon Station (CROWS) program out to 2023, with the official deal expected to be awarded in December. Scott Burk, vice president for business development and government relations ...

Boeing [BA] has delivered the first MH-47G Block II Chinook heavy-lift aircraft to U.S. Special Operations Command, the company said Tuesday. “This delivery marks a major step for the Chinook program,” Andy Builta, Boeing’s H-47 program manager, said in a statement. “The new Chinook will ...

Polaris [PII] on Tuesday disclosed new details of the MRZR Alpha ultralight tactical vehicle it’s delivering to U.S. Special Operations Command, including an expanded payload capacity, improved chassis and an 8-speed automotive transmission. “The MRZR Alpha is powerful and flexible enough for ...

Integrating data across classification levels is the biggest challenge for the effective employment of artificial intelligence (AI) for U.S. military forces in the field, according to a new paper for the Modern War Institute at West Point by Tufts University Prof. Richard Shultz and United States ...

The House Appropriations Committee is recommending cutting $80 million from the U.S. Special Operations Command’s (SOCOM) $101 million procurement request for the “Armed Overwatch” program in fiscal 2021. Last year, congressional appropriators criticized the U.S. Air Force’s ...

Sierra Nevada Corp. (SNC) is continuing its work to build and field degraded visual environment (DVE) systems for DoD helicopters, including the U.S. Air Force HH-60 combat search and rescue (CSAR) fleet by Lockheed Martin [LMT] and the Boeing [BA] MH-47 and Lockheed Martin MH-60 for U.S. Special ...