Americas * A Request for Information market survey is expected to be released on Wednesday for the re-competition of the Navy's Next Generation Information Enterprise Network (NGEN). With Hewlett-Packard winning the $3.45 billion IDIQ contract in June 2013, consisting...
Americas * The Air Force has launched a tender for the launch of a next-generation Global Positioning System satellite, releasing a RFP for the launch vehicle production, mission integration and launch operations. The latest Lockheed Martin GPS-III satellite was...
RQ-4: High flight(click to view full) The RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have provided invaluable intelligence to US troops in the field in Iraq and Afghanistan over the years. In its first year of use in Afghanistan, the RQ-4 provided [pdf] more...
Global Hawk(click to view full) On March 7, 2006, Northrop Grumman Integrated Systems Air Combat Systems in San Diego, CA received a $6 million cost-plus fixed-fee contract for the operation of the RQ-4 Global Hawk high altitude, long endurance UAV system "in a...
RQ-4A and RQ-4B Northrop Grumman Systems Corp. in San Diego, CA received a $20.5 million cost-plus award-fee contract modification (F33657-01-C-4600/ P00113) "to complete the development of the Global Hawk RQ-4B to meet the start of Initial Operation Test and...
Northrop Grumman Systems Corp. in San Diego, CA received a $42.5 million contract modification to provide for the completion of development on the Global Hawk RQ-4B (AF-8), including developmental and operational testing. The RQ-4B is a larger version of the extremely successful RQ-4A Global Hawk reconaissance UAV, which has been rushed into service as part of the Global War on Terror….
P-8A Poseidon (click to view full) Maritime surveillance and patrol is becoming more and more important, but the USA's P-3 Orion turboprop fleet is falling apart. The P-7 Long Range Air ASW (Anti-Submarine Warfare) Capable Aircraft program to create an improved P-3...
F-35B: off probation (click to view full) The $382 billion F-35 Joint Strike fighter program may well be the largest single global defense program in history. This major multinational program is intended to produce an "affordably stealthy" multi-role fighter that will...
Americas General Atomics Aeronautical Systems won a $561 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for Gray Eagle technical services. Bids were solicited via the internet with one received. Work locations and funding will be determined with each order, with an estimated...
ER/MP, armed (click to view full) Its initial battles were fought within the Pentagon, but the US Army's high-end UAV has made its transition to the battlefield. The ER/MP program was part of the US Army's reinvestment of dollars from the canceled RAH-66 Comanche...