PTDS Aerostat (click to view larger) $142 million to Lockheed Martin for additional PTDS. (June 8/10) The US Army is using tethered aerostats with multi-mission sensors to provide long endurance intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance (ISR) and communications in...
Americas * L-3 Communications is being tapped a contract modification in support if the TH-57 platform. The $42.3 million contract provides for organizational and depot level logistics services required to support and maintain the helicopter fleet. The TH-57 Sea...
Americas * Lockheed Martin is being tapped by the US Army Contracting Command in support of the GMLR system. The $20 million contract modification provides for the development and qualification of a modular rocket pod and launch tubes for the Guided Multiple Launch...
Americas * General Atomics is being tapped to retrofit the MQ-9 system. The firm-fixed-price, fixed-price-incentive, and cost-plus-fixed-fee contract is valued at $206 million and provides for retrofitting 122 MQ-9 Block 5 aircraft. The MQ-9 Reaper UAV, once called...
Americas * Lockheed Martin Aeronautics is being tapped for maintenance work on the C-5M Galaxy system. The awarded indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract valued at $31.3 million provides for software maintenance and updates, as well as Systems Integration...
Americas * The Defense Advanced Research Agency (DARPA) is tapping the Sierra Nevada Corporation for the final phase of the Agency’s Gremlins program. The DARPA project aims to develop a system that is able to launch and recover reusable drone swarms using manned...
Americas * Shipbuilder Huntington Ingalls recently announced that the first steps towards constructing the first Flight III Destroyer have been taken. The destroyer ‘Jack Lucas’ will join the Navy’s fleet in 2024. The vessel is modelled after the 73 Arleigh-Burke...
Astute, pre-launch (click to view full) Britain retired its nuclear-powered 4,900t SSN Swiftsure Class fast attack boats in 2010, and has begun phasing out its follow-on 5,300t SSN Trafalgar Class, before the effects of the ocean's constant squeezing and release start...
Americas * L3 Technologies is being tapped for an upgrade of the Air Force’s Mission Training Center (MTC). The cost-plus-fixed-fee and firm-fixed-price modification is valued at $20 million. The modification provides for the incorporation of the F-16 M7.2+...