Boxer MRAV (click to view full) Wheeled armored vehicles have become much more common, but the Dutch-German Boxer stands out from the crowd. Its English acronym is "Multi Role Armoured Vehicle" (MRAV), but rather than being a family of different vehicles, the Boxer...
Pre-RFP Articles
Grey Wolf Enters Next Phase | Temporary Ceasefire On The Way In The Middle East | Italy Blocks Safran Purchase
Americas Boeing won a $33 million deal for Small Diameter Bomb I sustainment and titled contractor logistics support. The deal provides for the SDB-I program and requires continuous contractor logistics support throughout production, fielding, and sustainment. The...
Boeing To Provide Stingray Support | US To Send 75 JLTVs To Israel | Germany Announced More Military Aid For Ukraine
Americas CFM International won a $47.8 million modification, which exercises options to procure three CFM56-7B27AE spare engines, two for the Navy and one for the government of Germany, in support of the P-8A Poseidon aircraft. The P-8A Poseidon is a military aircraft...
Raytheon Tapped For ESSM Production | UAE Might Purchase Korean Helicopters | DoS Approved Tomahawk Sale To Japan
Americas Raytheon won a $94.1 million modification for fiscal 2023 Guided Missile Assemblies, shipping containers, and spare parts in support of the fiscal 2021-2023 Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile Block 2 full rate production requirements. Work will be performed in...
Bell Boeing Tapped For Osprey Deployment Support | Raytheon To Support Qatar AOC System | Sikorsky Tapped For Thailand Black Hawk Work
Americas Bell Boeing won a $12.3 million deal for CMV-22B Osprey deployment support. This was a sole-source acquisition using justification 10 US Code 2304 (c)(1), as stated in Federal Acquisition Regulation 6.302-1. This is a one-year base contract with no option...
V-22 Osprey: The Multi-Year Buys
(click to view full) In March 2008, the Bell Boeing Joint Project Office in Amarillo, TX received a $10.4 billion modification that converted the previous N00019-07-C-0001 advance acquisition contract to a fixed-price-incentive-fee, multi-year contract. The new...
Alia eVTOL 1st Flight Test From Eglin Air Force Base | French Army Gets Griffons | DoS Approved FMS To Korea
Americas The BETA Technologies Alia electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft marked a historic moment with its first official test flight from Eglin Air Force Base on November 7, 2023. The primary objectives were to assess battery performance over...
Trident II D5 Missile: Keeping Up with Changing Times
Trident II D5 Test Launch (click to view full) Nuclear tipped missiles were first deployed on board US submarines at the height of the Cold War in the 1960s, to deter a Soviet first strike. The deterrence theorists argued that, unlike their land-based cousins,...
Smart Weapons In MQ-9 | UAE Gets Gowind-class Corvette | Spain Approved 68 AMRAAMS
Americas General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. (GA-ASI) has teamed with EDGE to integrate smart weapons into the MQ-9B SkyGuardian aerial drone. The partnership will see the Abu Dhabi company’s precision-guided and guided-glide munitions integrated into the...