Americas Lockheed Martin won $22.6 million cost-plus-incentive-fee modification for AEGIS Baseline 9 integration and delivery, Aegis Baseline 5.4 and 9A2A post-certification support. The deal provides for the completion of the development and fielding of the AEGIS...
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Lockheed Tapped For JASSM Replacement | General Dynamics To Provide Knifefish Engineering Services | Polish Company to Produce Mk 82 Bombs
Americas Lockheed Martin won a $23.6 million contract modification to replace joint air to surface standoff missile (JASSM) anti-jam GPS receiver with a new JASSM Anti-Jam GPS Receiver (JAGR), because of obsolescence. According to Lockheed Martin, JASSM is a...
Focused Lethality: The Mk82 QRC Program
Mark 82 bombs (click for full sequence) The "Focused Lethality Munition" is a variant of the 250 pound Small Diameter Bomb I that changes its casing and internal fill, in order to produce more devastating effects within a smaller area. A carbon-fiber bomb body...
Raytheon To Produce AN/SPY-6(V) Variants | Trump Says No F-35 Deal For Turkey | British Poseidon makes Inaugural Flight
Americas Bell Helicopter Textron won a $27.5 million contract modification for stabilizer bar assemblies, pylon mast assemblies, trans case assemblies, quill assemblies and rotary wing blades in support of UH-1N and TH-1H helicopters. The Bell UH-1N Iroquois is a...
Textron Tapped For Minuteman III Work | Boeing To Provide Apache Logistics Support For The UAE | DoS Approved PAC-3 FMS To Germany
Americas Textron Defense Systems won a $51.3 million contract modification for the Minuteman III Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Weapon System multiprobe antenna procurement. The Minuteman Intercontinental Ballistic Missile or ICBM is an element of the USA’s...
Carrier Signal: China’s Naval Aviation
SU-33s: folded, landing (click to view full) In 1998, the former Russian carrier Varyag was bought by a Chinese firm for use as a "tourist attraction." Nobody believed that, and by 2005, she was in drydock for secret refits. Still, a carrier needs planes. Near the end...
Northrop Wins Two Hawkeye Deals | Boeing Tapped For Work on British Poseidons | DoS Approves FMS To Greece
Americas Northrop Grumman won two delivery orders for the E-2 Hawkeye aircraft. The first deal is for high voltage power supplies and is valued at $17 million. The second contract worth $11 million will provide power amplifier modules. Northrop Grumman’s Hawkeye is an...
Raytheon Tapped To Launch Harm | Saab Will Further Self-Fund ARTHUR | MDHI To Bid For Australia Special Force Helicopters
Americas Raytheon won a $17.8 million firm-fixed-price contract for 114 High Speed Anti-Radiation Missile command launch computers to include two pre-production units, one first article test unit and 111 production units in support of the Navy. The system known as...
Northrop To Update TLMs | Qatar Beefs Up Defense Against Iran | Bulgaria To Buy New F-16s
Americas QED Systems won a $17.6 million contract for the storage, overhaul, assessment, repair and industrial activity to make ready for issue critical steam plant valves to support Naval Surface Warfare Center Philadelphia Division engineering, technical, production...

