Weapons

RTX [RTX] said on Jan. 29 that the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) and the company’s Raytheon business unit have finished a three week field test of the Counter-Electronic […]

Multi-year procurement (MYP) of key munitions is vital to rebuild U.S. stockpiles, Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.), said on Jan. 23. Gallagher chairs the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist […]

RTX [RTX] said on Jan. 3 that the U.S. Air Force’s Dec. 29 award to the company’s Tucson, Ariz. site for  GBU-53B Small Diameter Bomb IIs (SDB IIs)–so called “StormBreakers”–represents […]

General Electric‘s [GE] GE Aerospace division said on Dec. 14 that it plans to demonstrate a full-scale dual-mode ramjet (DMRJ) hypersonic engine with rotating detonation combustion (RDC) next year, as […]

The fiscal 2024 defense authorization conference report establishes a Joint Energetics Transition Center under DoD acquisition chief William LaPlante. The center is to develop “an energetic materials strategic plan and […]

Boeing‘s [BA] future Powered Joint Direct Attack Munition (PJDAM) is to have a range of more than 300 nautical miles–seven times the range of the company’s JDAM Extended Range (JDAM […]

Kratos‘ [KTOS] Michigan-based Technical Directions, Inc. (TDI) business unit within the company’s unmanned systems division said that it has agreed with Boeing [BA] to develop and field the TDI-J85 turbine […]

The Defense Department has awarded X-Bow Systems a $64 million contract to position the startup as a second supplier of large-diameter solid rocket motors (SRMs) for two Army and Navy […]

Northrop Grumman [NOC] said on Sept. 25 that the U.S. Air Force has awarded it a contract worth about $705 million to deliver the air-to-ground Stand-in Attack Weapon (SiAW). “During […]

The U.S. State Department has given the go ahead for a more than $313 million Foreign Military Sale (FMS) of munitions, radars and other equipment for Canadian MQ-9Bs by General […]