Top U.S. Army officials have declared that they see a collaborative and “reciprocal relationship” with industry as key to getting new technologies into the hands of warfighters at a faster rate. Among the Department of Defense component’s tech focus areas are artificial intelligence, counter-drone systems and long-range precision fires. Young ...
Collins Aerospace, an RTX (NYSE: RTX) subsidiary, has secured a potential 10-year, $196.6 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract from the Defense Logistics Agency to supply the U.S. Army with various tactical airborne navigation systems spare parts. DLA Land and Maritime awarded the contract on a sole source basis and will fund the...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has secured a $756 million contract from the U.S. Army to produce additional battery equipment for a ground-based hypersonic strike weapon system. The contract also covers the provision of logistics and systems and software engineering services in support of the Long Range Hypersonic Weapon system, the defense contractor ...
Project Convergence materialized in 2020 with a goal of connecting Army sensors, command and control nodes and shooters at the tactical level. While the initiative was originally created to tackle Army-specific problems, its reach has dramatically expanded over time. Now, Project Convergence serves as a key part of the Department of Defense’s Comb...
Amtec, a National Defense Corp. company, will supply high-velocity training rounds to the U.S. Army under a five-year, $818.9 million contract. Army Contracting Command received two bids for the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract via the internet and will determine work locations and budget with individual orders, the Department of Def...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has secured a pair of modifications worth $553.4 million combined to build and deliver surface-to-surface rocket weapon systems to the U.S. Army and foreign military customers. The company will provide Guided Multiple Launch Rocket Systems to the service branch under a $332.1 million modification to a GMLRS supply contrac...
Science Applications International Corp. (Nasdaq: SAIC) has received a potential five-year, $232 million task order from the U.S. Army to provide systems engineering and information technology modernization support to help the military branch build signals intelligence and electronic warfare systems. SAIC said Thursday the task order was awarded und...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has secured an $861.3 million contract modification to produce and deliver additional high mobility artillery rocket system launchers and provide support services for the U.S. Army. Army Contracting Command-Redstone received one bid for the firm-fixed-price contract modification via the internet and will determine work lo...
The Department of Defense’s effort to field thousands of autonomous drones has reached a major execution milestone. The Army’s Switchblade-600 loitering munition, built by AeroVironment, has been selected for accelerated fielding under the first tranche of the Replicator program, the DOD said in a release on Monday. The Army’s acquisition hea...
Lockheed Martin‘s missiles and fire control business (NYSE: LMT) will assess the potential of integrating enabling technologies into a prototype weapon system as part of a U.S. Army award with a $170.2 million ceiling value. Work under the other transaction authority agreement will occur in Grand Prairie, Texas, and several locations through F...
