General Dynamics, IMT Win $100M for Army Explosive Parts

Smiths Group has agreed to purchase Safran’s Morpho Detection subsidiary in the U.S. and other detection-related operations for approximately $710 million. The companies said Thursday Newark, California-based Morpho Detection will join Smith Group’s detection segment that makes sensors and generated approximately $320 million in 2015 revenue. Morpho Detection builds systems to detect chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and explosive threats at

A General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) business unit has received a potential five-year, $193 million contract from the U.S. Army to build penetrator bomb bodies and components. The Army Contracting Command awarded the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems to produce the BLU-109 units, the company said Wednesday. General Dynamics added it has already received the first orders valued at $9.3 million. This contract calls for the