Americas Austal USA, Mobile won a $47 million cost-plus-fixed-fee, firm-fixed-price, and cost-only modification for Littoral Combat Ships class design support, and integrated data and product model environment support. Work will be performed in Mobile, Alabama and...
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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....
US Coast Guard Gets 57Th Sentinel | Kongsberg Unveiled NOMADS | Airbus Raises Concerns About ROKAF Tankers
Americas The US Coast Guard has taken delivery of its 57th Sentinel-class fast response cutter from Bollinger Shipyards in Key West, Florida. The USCGC Florence Finch (WPC-1157) is part of a US Department of Defense effort begun in 2008 to replace the service’s Island...
Lockheed Delivered 2,700th Hercules | Congress OKs Israel F-15 Sale | Romania Will Get 54 K9 Howitzers
Americas Lockheed Martin has achieved a significant milestone in tactical airlift with the delivery of the 2,700th C-130 Hercules aircraft. This landmark aircraft, a KC-130J Super Hercules tanker variant, joins the U.S. Marine Corps Aerial Refueler Transport Squadron...
Lockheed And Rheinmetall Introduced GMARS | Belgium To Procure H145M | Philippine Ship Collided With Chinese Vessel
Americas Progeny Systems won an $11.9 million modification to exercise options to provide engineering and technical support including modernizing Virginia Class Block I/II submarines to include the common weapon launcher. Work will be performed in Manassas, Virginia,...
DoD Awarded USV Deal To Several Companies | Aeronautics Group Unveils New Orbiter 2 Variant |
Americas The US Department of Defense (DoD) has awarded a $982 million contract to 49 defense and technology firms to develop systems for its current and future unmanned surface vehicles (USV). Saab, Anduril Industries, Bollinger Shipyards, Teledyne FLIR, and General...
Canada To Send Additional Equipment To Ukraine | DoS Approves AMRAAM-ER Sale To Netherlands | 1st Australian Navy Team to Train in US on AUKUS Sub Ops
Americas General Dynamics won a $202 million deal for DDG 51 Class Planning Yard. Work will take place in Bath, Maine, and is expected to be completed by July 31, 2029. Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, DC is the contracting activity. Ottawa is supplying...
Raytheon Tapped For Silent Knight Support | DoS Cleared AMRAAM Sale To Norway | Boramae Future Uncertain
Americas Raytheon won a $293 million deal with a $33,700,000 initial task order for sustainment, support, research, development, and supplemental objectives related to the Silent Knight radar systems in support of US Special Operations Command Program Executive...
US Sends Another Patriot To Ukraine | DoS Approved AIM-120C Sale To Denmark | Warning Shots From South Korea As NK Soldiers Cross Border
Americas Boeing won $81 million modification, which definitizes the order and adds scope to provide continuing non-recurring engineering in support of configuration efforts for the Harpoon Coastal Defense System (HCDS), to include the Harpoon Block II Update Grade B...