by Emily Erhold | Apr 19, 2019 | Daily Rapid Fire
Americas Sikorsky won a $23.4 million contract to maintain and overhaul the UH-60 Blackhawk. The medium lift utility helicopter is used for a variety of roles including troop transportation. The A model of the twin-engine chopper was designed to to serve in utility,...
by Emily Erhold | Apr 18, 2019 | Daily Rapid Fire
Americas Lockheed Martin Space won an $879 million contract to support the US Air Force in maintaining re-entry system and vehicle subsystems for the intercontinental ballistic missile platform. The potential 11-year contract includes maintenance, sustainment,...
by Emily Erhold | Apr 17, 2019 | Daily Rapid Fire
Americas Pratt & Whitney, a subsidiary of United Technologies Corp., won a $201.9 million modification from the US Navy to obtain long lead parts and materials needed to produce lot 14 propulsion systems for the F-35 aircraft. Pratt & Whitney’s F135 propulsion...
by Emily Erhold | Apr 16, 2019 | Daily Rapid Fire
Americas The Air Force awarded Boeing a $21.6 million contract modification for GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator, also known as a „bunker buster“ bomb. The bunker buster is a precision-guided, 30,000 pound bomb employed only by the B-2 Spirit stealth bomber. Once...
by Joe Katzman | Apr 16, 2019 | Boeing, Bombs - Smart, Contracts - Awards, Delivery & Task Orders, Design Innovations, New Systems Tech, R&D - Contracted, USA
“Grand Slam” (click to view full) During the Second World War, attacking heavily protected targets like U-boat pens and protected “V-weapon” facilities was a key challenge. Enter a brilliant British engineer named Barnes Wallis, fresh off the...
