by Joe Katzman | May 10, 2005 | Delivery & Task Orders, Helicopters & Rotary, Small Business, Support & Maintenance, USA
UH-60 Blackhawk The Army Aviation and Missile Command at Redstone Arsenal, AL has issued about $9.7 million in delivery orders to small business qualifiers for unspecified UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter parts. The UH-60 is the main troop transport helicopter of the U.S....
by Joe Katzman | May 10, 2005 | Contracts - Awards, Small Business, USA
Hawkeye Flyer’s Shell Small business qualifier Hawkeye Glove Manufacturing Co. in Fort Dodge, IA won a maximum $6.1 million firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/ indefinite-quantity contract for the Army, Navy, and Air Force for flyer’s gloves....
by Joe Katzman | May 9, 2005 | Air Reconnaissance, Boeing, Expeditionary Warfare, Field Reports, Forces - Marines, Intelligence & PsyOps, New Systems Tech, Procurement Innovations, Public Partnering, Transformation, UAVs, USA
ScanEagle returns ScanEagle is a relatively low-cost robot aircraft at $100,000 a copy – but then, it was originally designed to find tuna schools not terrorists. The U.S. Marine Corps is currently using an upgraded version of the aircraft in Iraq, where its...
by Joe Katzman | May 9, 2005 | Air Reconnaissance, Boeing, Contracts - Awards, New Systems Tech, UAVs, USA, UUVs & USVs
ScanEagle Following positive evaluations in the field by the U.S. Marine Corps, the U.S. Navy has committed to a $14.5 million contract to use the ScanEagle. ScanEagle is a small GPS-guided spy plane that can linger above a designated battle space for many hours and...
by Joe Katzman | May 9, 2005 | Americas - Other, Asia - Other, Contracts - Modifications, Europe - Other, Japan, Missiles - Surface-Air, Protective Systems - Naval, Raytheon, USA
ESSM Launch Raytheon Co. in Tucson, AZ received a $162.8 million firm-fixed-price modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-05-C-5482) to procure 251 Evolved Sea Sparrow Missiles (ESSM), 38 shipping containers and spares for the NATO Sea Sparrow consortium....