Americas The Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division is procuring support equipment for its fleet of E-2D Advanced Hawkeye aircraft. Northrop Grumman will supply the Navy with 45 end items of Peculiar Support Equipment (PSE) at a cost of $29.9 million. The...
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Aerosonde Again? AAI’s MEUAS-II Special Forces UAV Win
Aerosonde 4.7 from M80 Stiletto (click to view full) It has been a great week for Textron subsidiary AAI. At the end of February, they made a big breakthrough in the US military market, as their Aerosonde-G UAV became 1 of 3 platforms eligible to compete for up to...
OA-X goes into the next round | TOPGUN gets a new training facility | IAI and Boeing fight over tanker contract
Americas * The US Army is procuring protective netting kits in support of its MRAP vehicles. Navistar Defense will provide an unspecified amount of rocket propelled grenade netting kits as part of the awarded firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity...
The C-5 Galaxy is ready to do the heavy lifting | Trident II – so hot right now | China goes hypersonic
Americas * The Air Force is working on the next operational resiliency phase for one of its satellites. Lockheed Martin Space Systems is being awarded a $32.0 million contract modification for work on the Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) Satellite Vehicle 4....
Work on LPD-30 commences | Advanced Eagles will soar above Qatar | Sweden approves PAC-3 purchase
Americas * General Dynamics is being tapped to support the US Army’s fleet of Stryker vehicles. The awarded contract modification has a value of $11 million and provides for the supplying the entire Stryker program with spare parts. The US military plans to use the...
US Army awards $3.9 billion for CHS-5 | Hellfire for Kuwait | The Netherlands order Mk54 conversion kits
Americas * General Dynamics is being contracted to provide the US Army with 5th Generation Common Hardware Systems. The hybrid contract has a value of $3.9 billion. According to the Army the CHS-5 contract will enable the rapid procurement of total life cycle system...
Saturn Arch – protection from above | USS Tulsa enters PSA | Japan withdraws PAC-3
Americas * Leonardo DRS is being contracted to provide the US Army with a new C-UAS capability. The awarded contract modification has a value of $13.25 million and provides for engineering and testing of the Mobile Low, Slow Small Unmanned Aerial System Integrated...
Towed arrays for US subs | Holster your weapon! | Luftwaffe’s A400M now with MEDEVAC capability
Americas * L-3 Chesapeake Sciences Corp. is being tapped to provide the Navy’s submarine fleet with passive sonar equipment. The awarded contract modification has a value of $27.5 million and provides for the production of TB-29X towed arrays. The TB-29X is a thin...
USSOCOM goes silent | New Delhi to be protected by NASAMS | France develops new air-to-air missile
Americas * The US Navy is boosting its fleet of patrol boats for its near-shore operations. Gravois Aluminum Boats LLC, doing business as Metal Shark, is being awarded a delivery order for 40 Patrol Boats at a cost of $18.4 million. The Metal Shark 40PBX has been...

