Americas
Lockheed Martin won a $28.6 million cost-plus-incentive-fee and cost-plus-fixed-fee modification for the extension of integrated logistics support, combat system engineering, and ship integration and test, and in-country integrated test team supports in connection with the KDX III Batch II destroyers. Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, DC., is the contracting activity.
FN America has received a $4.9-million deal to deliver its flagship M240L lightweight medium machine guns to the US Army. The order builds on the NATO-standard weapon’s adoption into the service in 2010 as part of a development program to assemble a lean but more durable firearm for troops. M240L features an 18-percent weight reduction from its earlier model, the M240B medium machine gun, while maintaining range and firepower performance.
Europe
Finland’s President Alexander Stubb on Friday approved the country’s withdrawal from a treaty banning anti-personnel mines, citing a “deteriorated security situation” and a longer-term threat from Russia. Finnish lawmakers voted to leave the anti-landmine Ottawa Convention in June but the decision needed to be signed by the president.
Middle East & Africa
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has expressed confidence Turkey would be readmitted to the US F-35 program and receive the stealth fighter jets in line with “an agreement” with US President Donald Trump. Washington booted Turkey out of its F-35 program in 2019 and a year later imposed sanctions on Ankara over its purchase of an S-400 Russian surface-to-air missile defense system, but since Trump’s return to office, the two NATO allies appear keen to end the dispute.
Asia-Pacific
Tokyo-headquartered Hitachi has requested Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) deliver over a dozen REMUS 300 small uncrewed undersea vehicles (SUUVs). The multi-year contract occurs within the context of a longstanding defense relationship between the US and Japan. It has not been stated whether the contract has been awarded on behalf of the Japan Maritime Self Defense Force.