by Fred Donovan | May 17, 2009 | Contracts - Awards, Lockheed Martin, Rockets, Trucks & Transport, USA
Up-armored HIMARS(click to view full) Lockheed Martin Corp.’s Missile and Fires Control (LMMFC) division received a $11.9 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for the acquisition of 26 increased crew protection cabs for the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System...
by Joe Katzman | May 17, 2009 | Airbus, Britain/U.K., Electronics - General, Europe - Other, Issues - Political, Legal, Mergers & Acquisitions, Other Corporation, Sensors - Aquatic
Atlas Elektronik’s UK ubsidiary has reached an agreement to buy QinetiQ (pron. “kinetic”) Group plc’s underwater systems business based in Winfrith, Dorset, for a cash consideration of GBP 23.5m (EUR 26.5/ $40.2 million equivalent). That...
by Joe Katzman | May 14, 2009 | China, India, Indonesia, Industry & Trends, Japan, South Korea
RSS Formidable andINS Brahmaputra(click to view full) Agence France Presse quotes naval consultancy AMI International, whose analysts are forecasting that Asian states will spend $60 billion to modernize their navies in the next 5 years. That amount is very similar to...
by Fred Donovan | May 14, 2009 | Contracts - Awards, Design Innovations, Lockheed Martin, Sensors - Aquatic, Sensors & Guidance, Surface Ships - Combat, USA
Lockheed Martin Information Systems and Global Services won a $10 million cost-plus-fixed-fee Navy contract for development, engineering, and testing of reliable acoustic path vertical line array (RAPVLA) sensor systems for distributed netted systems. RAPVLA sensor...
by Joe Katzman | May 13, 2009 | Boeing, Contracts - Awards, Europe - Other, Finmeccanica, Helicopters & Rotary, USA
Italian CH-47C(click to view full) Italy’s ARMAEREO procurement agency signed a EUR 900 million ($1.23 billion equivalent) contract to buy 16 CH-47 heavy-lift helicopters for the Italian Army, with an option for 4 more. These 16-20 “ICH-47Fs” will be...
