Maersk MPS Ship Honeywell Technology Solutions in Jacksonville, FL received a not-to-exceed $45 million modification to a previously awarded cost-plus-award-fee task order to provide prepositioning and logistics support services to the US Marine Corps. Honeywell's...
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LaBarge to Supply Wiring Harnesses for US Army TOW Missile
TOW Launch(click to view full) LaBarge in St. Louis, MO received a $7.3 million order from Raytheon Missile Systems to provide complex wiring harnesses for the US Army's TOW (tube-launched, optically-tracked, wireless-guided) weapon system. TOW is a long-range,...
4 New Mi-17 Helicopters to Afghan Army
Afghan Army Mi-17s(click to view full) In July 2009, The Afghan National Army Air Corps (ANAAC) bought 4 more Mi-17 variant helicopters and related tool kits from Defense Technology Inc. (DTI), who provides military hardware from the former Soviet Union to the U.S....
US Navy’s NAWCWD Awards Small Business Contracts for Advanced Tech Products
The Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division (NAWCWD) in China Lake, CA awarded indefinite-delivery/ indefinite-quantity multiple award contracts to 4 small business qualifiers for advanced technology products in support of NAWCWD's Weapons Prototype Division. The...
Iraq Looking for More Light/Med. Utility Helicopters
IqAF Huey-II, Mosul 2008(click to view full) On Nov 19/09, the US DSCA announced [PDF] a formal request from the Iraqi government to buy up to 27 light and medium utility helicopters, in a deal whose possible value is set at $1.2 billion. DSCA requests do not...
$302.9M to Northrop Grumman for 5 USAF RQ-4 Global Hawks
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...
Storming the Beaches: US Navy’s ACU-1 Craft Get Engine Overhaul
Invasion of Inchonduring the Korean War(click to view larger) Pushed to the edge of the Korean peninsula by a massive and sustained invasion by the North Korean army, South Korean, US, and UN troops dug in at a perimeter around the city of Pusan. It was the summer of...
Britain Orders Dragon Runner Robots for the Troops
Dragon Runner system(click to view larger) QinetiQ North America subsidiary Automatika recently announced a GBP 12 million (about $20 million) urgent operational contract from the UK's Ministry of Defence to supply almost 100 of its small Automatika Dragon Runner...
Cox to Build Instruction Building at the Presidio of Monterey, CA
DLIFLC's ImmersionLanguage Training(click to view larger) Cox Construction in Vista, CA won a $13.4 million firm-fixed-price contract to build a general instruction building at the Presidio of Monterey, CA. The building will include classrooms, offices, storage space,...

