Americas Sierra Nevada won a $56 million modification for the MC-130J Airborne Mission Networking program's low-rate initial production. This modification provides for the procurement of production kits, spares, interim-contractor support, program management, and...
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Lockheed Tapped For JASSM Maintenance | Qatar Received 4th Al Zubarah Class Corvette | Indra Installed Lanza On Indian Navy Ship
Americas Lockheed Martin won a $29.2 million modification for maintenance, additional tooling and equipment for Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile (JASSM) Lot 19/20. The modification brings the total cumulative face value of the contract to $1,090,980,036. Work...
AGM-158 JASSM: Lockheed’s Family of Stealthy Cruise Missiles
JASSM-ER from B-1B (click to view full) The 2,000 pound AGM-158 JASSM (Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile) is intended to be a stealthy, inexpensive GPS/IIR (Global Positioning system/ Imaging InfraRed) guided cruise missile. It's designed to attack well-defended...
USAF Tested PATR Crane | Elbit And Rheinmetall Live-Fire Demonstration Of Howitzers | Denmark Wants To Equip Armed Forces With Skyranger
Americas Rockwell Collins won a $10 million modification against a previously issued basic ordering agreement (N0001919G0031). This modification provides non-recurring engineering for the development of hardware and software necessary to install Mission Computer...
The USA’s E-6 Fleet: Take Charge, And Move Out!
E-6B TACAMO (click to view full) The USA's E-6 Mercury (aka. TACAMO, as in TAke Charge And Move Out) "survivable airborne communication system" airplanes support their Navy's SSBN ballistic missile submarine force and overall strategic forces. With the advent of the...
Rolls Royce Tapped For LCS Gas Turbine Engines | Patriot Missile Unit Damaged in Ukraine | Australia Orders Bushmasters
Americas Rolls Royce Marine North America won a $66.7 million deal in support of the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) for the global engineering and technical support of the Littoral Combat Ships (LCS) Freedom Variant MT30 gas turbine engines. This contract...
LCS: The USA’s Littoral Combat Ships
Austal Team Trimaran LCS Design (click to enlarge) Exploit simplicity, numbers, the pace of technology development in electronics and robotics, and fast reconfiguration. That was the US Navy's idea for the low-end backbone of its future surface combatant fleet....
Elbit To Supply Mortar Munitions And Training Solutions To Montenegro | Northrop Delivered IBCS To Poland | DSCA Delivered SM-3 Block 2A To Japan
Americas US Hardware Supply ($12.6 million) and Worldwide Equipment ($12,3 million) each won a deal for M1A1 Abrams tank parts kits. These are three-year contracts with no option periods. This was a competitive acquisition with three offers received. The performance...
Digital Abrams: The M1A2 SEP Program
M1A2 SEP (click to view full) America's M1 Abrams tanks come in a number of versions. In addition to the M1A1 that is now standard, the US Army is beginning to field its M1 TUSK for urban warfare. It also operates the M1A2 System Enhancement Program (SEP), currently...