Americas Sikorsky won a $72 million delivery order for the procurement of 98 rotary blades in support of the CH-53 K aircrafts. The delivery order does not include an option period. All work will be performed in Stratford, Connecticut. Work is expected to be completed...
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Rockwell Tapped For VLF Transition Into C-130 | DoS OKs Javelin FMS To Bulgaria | Australia Expands Its Drone Capacities
Americas Rockwell Collin won a $46 million modification to provide expanded risk reduction non-recurring engineering efforts to further address size, weight, and power-cooling of the airborne very low frequency (VLF) design considerations for the integration of the...
The C-130J: New Hercules & Old Bottlenecks
RAAF C-130J-30, flares (click to view full) The C-130 Hercules remains one of the longest-running aerospace manufacturing programs of all time. Since 1956, over 40 models and variants have served as the tactical airlift backbone for over 50 nations. The C-130J looks...
USAF B-21 Program Progresses | Second Wave Of Device Explosions In Lebanon | Armenia Wants To Procure Missiles From India
Americas Systems Planning and Analysis won a $13 million modification to provide support services for the Trident II Submarine Launched Ballistic Missile Strategic Weapons System. Tasks to be performed include technical services, program support services, assessments,...
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,...
Sikorsky To Provide Gearboxes For Navy CH-53Ks | US Reaper Crashed In Yemen | Italy Prepares To Buy more F-35s
Americas Sikorsky won a $13 million deal for the procurement of nine input module gearboxes in support of the CH-53K aircrafts. All work will be performed in Stratford, Connecticut. This contract contains no options, and work is expected to be completed by December...
Northrop Tapped For E-2D Work | Hezbollah Pagers Simultaneously Exploded, Killing Several People | DoS Approves Sale To Tapei
Americas Northrop Grumman Systems won a $18 million modification, which adds scope to provide continued engineering, logistics, support equipment, obsolescence, software, hardware, trade studies, incidental material, impact assessment, risk and program analysis...
Virginia Block III: The Revised Bow
Virginia Block I-II (click for SuperSize) "GDEB Receives $148M as Virginia Class Lead Yard" described changes to the Virginia Class submarine's design that are expected to reach 20% of the $200 million savings goal by the time orders for the versatile sea attack/ land...
F-15EX Makes Debut At OIA | US Approved Weapons Sales To Israel | DoS Approved F-35 FMS To Romania
Americas Lockheed Martin won a $14.4 million modification, which exercises an option to provide additional lab support labor and material to continue lab support of F-35 Joint Strike Fighter laboratory facilities at Edwards Air Force Base, California; Naval Air...