BAE Systems is expanding the capacity of its York, Pennsylvania manufacturing site to accommodate increased production of armored multi-purpose vehicles for the U.S. Army and amphibious combat vehicles for the Marine Corps. The defense contractor said Friday it will transfer other vehicle production work from the York site to its different facilities in the U.S. […] More

The U.S. Marine Corps’ Force Design 2030 lays out a vision for the future of the service branch to prepare for the threats of tomorrow. Its target areas include achieving a joint warfighting structure (in line with the Department of Defense’s Joint All Domain Command and Control initiative), optimizing reconnaissance and counter-reconnaissance operations and advancing base […] More

Northrop Grumman will manufacture a laser-based man-portable targeting system to enable U.S. Marine Corps personnel operating in GPS-denied environments to identify and locate extended-range targets. The company said Tuesday it received an initial production and operations contract for the Next Generation Handheld Targeting System, a single handheld device intended to help Marines conduct laser guidance […] More

Viasat will provide fully managed satellite communications services for the U.S. Marine Corps under a contract. The contract award comes following the completion of a pilot program that involved the provision of satcom as a managed service to the branch’s I Marine Expeditionary Force, Viasat said Tuesday. Through the pilot, the company’s SaaMS offering delivered […] More

A Katmai Government Services subsidiary has received a five-year, $97.5 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract from the U.S. Navy to deliver warfighter training support services to the Marine Corps. Katmai Management Services will particularly provide role player support and subject-matter expertise under the firm-fixed-price contract, the Department of Defense said Friday. The Marine Corps System Command handed the award […] More

Berry Aviation will support the U.S. Marine Corps. Special Operations Command‘s air-to-ground integration training by providing airborne intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities.  Under a recently awarded contract, the charter airline’s Cessna 206 aircraft will be utilized in the training and will include a platform, an experienced aircrew and a remote portable ground control station, the […] More

Obsidian Solutions Group will assist the U.S. Marine Corps in conducting staff training for combat support under a five-year, $40 million contract.  The Fredericksburg, Virginia-headquartered company said Monday that it will support the Marine Air-Ground Task Force‘s staff training program to cover military operations within the context of a joint or combined task force environment. The company’s […] More

Bruno Pesanti, an executive with extensive technology delivery experience to the federal government, has been named vice president at the defense intelligence and space business unit of CGI’s public sector arm. In his new role, Pesanti will serve as the aforementioned CGI Federal unit’s consulting services and sector lead for the Navy and Marine Corps markets, […] More

A Cubic business division has moved to the full-rate production phase of an acquisition program that will provide the U.S. Marine Corps a next-generation communications system designed to transmit microwave radio signals across the troposphere. Cubic Mission and Performance Solutions will manufacture the X-band tropospheric scatter technology, as part of a potential $325 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity […] More

Bell Textron has rounded off the delivery of AH-1Z Viper aircraft to the U.S. Marine Corps, completing a program of record for the latest version of the H-1 twin-engine helicopters. The service branch received a total of 349 units of the AH-1Z as well as the UH-1Y Venom, whose order was fulfilled in 2018, parent […] More

Kaman‘s air vehicles division will construct a military prototype of its KARGO unmanned aerial vehicle for the U.S. Marine Corps to support its logistics operations in austere environments.  Kaman Air Vehicles will employ parallel testing for the prototype’s autonomy system courtesy of Near Earth Autonomy, the aerospace company said Monday.  The unit will also work […] More

KPMG has selected Attabotics, the developer of a 3D robotics system focused on inventory management, to install an automated storage and retrieval system at a U.S. Marine Corps smart warehouse in Albany, Georgia. The KPMG team’s 5G-powered smart warehouse prototype will use the supply chain system to support logistics and inventory management and tracking activities […] More