The military is increasingly turning to unmanned aerial vehicles for surveillance and combat operations because of the aircraft’s multimission capabilities and technologies, the New York Times reported Sunday. Daniel Solon writes that manufacturers offer UAVs that range from hand-launched reconnaissance drones to experimental solar-powered surveillance... 

Boeing (NYSE: BA) and Textron (NYSE: TXT) subsidiary Bell Helicopter’s joint venture has won a five-year $6.5 billion U.S. Navy contract for 99 V-22 Osprey aircraft, DoD Buzz reported Tuesday. Richard Sisk writes the JV will produce 92 MV-22 Ospreys for the Marine Corps and seven units of the CV-22 variant for the Air Force under the contract, with... 

Boeing (NYSE: BA) and the U.S. Army have signed a multi-year contract potentially worth $4 billion for up to 215 helicopters intended for combat, logistics and humanitarian operations. The Army currently has 241 CH-47F Chinooks in its fleet and this order intends to bring the branch’s total procurement close to its goal of 464 helicopters, Boeing... 

Bechtel has announced the completion of a U.S. Missile Defense Agency project that aims to protects the country from long-range ballistic missile attacks. The company completed its task orders from the Ground-Based Midcourse Defense program, including construction of three missile fields at Fort Greely, Alaska, Bechtel said Monday. Under the contract... 

Boeing (NYSE: BA), General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) and Wyle Laboratories have won a $200 million combined contract with the Defense Security Cooperation Agency to provide aircraft support to Kuwait. The possible foreign military sale covers technical, logistic and maintenance support for Kuwait’s F/A-18 C/D aircraft as part of the U.S. government’s... 

Boeing (NYSE: BA) will start producing parts of refueling tankers for the U.S. Air Force under a fixed-price contract with the branch, the Puget Sound Business Journal reported May 22. Steve Wilhelm writes the company will build the KC-46 tanker in phases within the Puget Sound, Wash. region and fabricate the refueling boom with the final fitting at Seattle’s... 

Boeing (NYSE: BA) has won a $27.5 million contract modificationTypes: Administrative Change : A unilateral contract change that does not affect the contractual rights of the parties. Change order: A written order, signed byBudget Year the CO, directing that the contractor to make a change authorized byBudget Year the "changes" clause. Not issued... 

Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) has won a $76 million contract to modernize the communication systems of the U.S. Air Force B-52 bomber fleet as the military aims to improve aircraft capability and resilience. Under the combat network communications technology contract, Boeing will provide tools and spare parts to upgrade and maintain the B-52 bombers at Tinker... 

Australia has committed to purchase 100 Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) F-35 jets and will buy 12 Boeing (NYSE: BA) EA-18G Growler planes as part of a new defense strategy, Reuters reports. James Grubel writes the Australian Defence Ministry announced its acquisition in a white paper, saying the country aims to shift its focus into the Indo-Pacific region... 

Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has won a $7 million delivery order to update electronic attack systems used on the U.S. Navy‘s fleet of EA-16G Growler jets, built byBudget Year Boeing (NYSE: BA). The order is a ceiling-priced award under a basic ordering agreement, the Defense Department said Thursday. Work will occur in Elkridge, Md. through May...