Weapons
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Air ForceGE Aerospace And Kratos Announce USAF EMD Contract For Alternate JASSM-ER Engine
Cincinnati’s GE Aerospace [GE] and San Diego’s Kratos Defense & Security Solutions [KTOS] said on Monday that the U.S. Air Force has awarded the companies an engineering and manufacturing development […]
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Navy/USMCNavy Awards Raytheon $22.9 Billion Tomahawk Contract To Bolster Long-Term Production
The Defense Department on Monday announced a new Navy contract with RTX’s [RTX] Raytheon business unit worth about $22.9 billion over seven years, aimed at increasing long-term Tomahawk cruise missile […]
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PentagonBoeing to Boost Production Of Parts For Standard Missile-3 In Framework Deal With DoD, RTX
The Defense Department last Friday said it signed seven-year framework agreement that would have Boeing [BA] increase production rates of key parts for the RTX [RTX]-built Standard Missile-3 Block IB […]
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WeaponsLockheed Martin Developing Modular Payload System For Hypersonic Missiles
The Pentagon’s prime contractor to develop the Army’s hypersonic weapons is investing millions of dollars in internal funds to develop a new modular payload system aimed at enabling more payloads […]
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CongressU.S. Fighter Fleet Will Expand By 2040 But More Stealth Aircraft Will Mean Less Availability, CBO Says
The number of fighter aircraft in the U.S. military inventory will decline over the next few years before expanding to a greater number than currently, but their availability for operational […]
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WeaponsCoAspire Wins $70 Million Contract For Navy Affordable Coalition Missile Program
The Navy recently awarded CoAspire a $70 million prototype Other Transaction Agreement (OTA) for its Rapidly Adaptable Affordable Cruise Missile-Extended Range (RAACM-ER) ground-launched variant for its new Coalition Heterogeneous Affordable […]
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Advanced / Transformational TechnologyPentagon Seeks Bomber Prototypes In Drone Dominance Program
The Pentagon’s $1.1 billion Drone Dominance Program (DDP) plans to award $32 million for “reusable bomber/dropper” prototypes–with “additional orders planned”–in the latest instance of DoD’s affordable drone push. “One-way attack […]
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Business/FinancialNorthrop Grumman Takes Charges On GEM 63XL, SiAW In Second Quarter
Northrop Grumman [NOC] on Tuesday reported another charge on a large solid rocket motor program that suffered an anomaly during a launch in February, and also said development work on […]
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Business/FinancialNorthrop Grumman To Produce SRMs For PAC-3 Missiles As Second Source
A solid rocket motor (SRM) being developed by Northrop Grumman [NOC] was qualified in June as a second source to power Patriot air defense missiles and the company expects a […]
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Air ForceAir Force May More Than Triple JASSM/LRASM Buy Over FYDP
The Air Force planned buy of the Lockheed Martin [LMT] AGM-158 Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile (JASSM) family may nearly quadruple over the future years defense plan (FYDP) through fiscal 2031. […]