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The U.S. Army is set to receive the initial prototypes of the updated M1A2 Abrams main battle tanks by the end of September with plans to deploy the vehicles by fiscal 2020, Tanks and Purpose reported Friday. Tanks and Purpose cited a Scout Warrior report on the announcement of the Army’s program executive office for ground […] More

Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory has won a potential five-year, $49.5 million contract from the U.S. Army to study soldiers’ vulnerability in extreme environments. The Army Contracting Command received 999 bids for the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract via an online-based solicitation process, the Defense Department said Thursday. APL is scheduled to complete the research by Sept. 30, 2022. More

Kratos Defense and Security Solutions has offered its short range ballistic missile system to support U.S. Navy testing activities on the AN/SPY-6(V) Air and Missile Defense Radar. The company said Thursday that the AN/SPY-6(V) system acquired and tracked the movement of the Kratos Space and Missile Defense Systems-built SRBM technology which was launched from the Pacific Missile […] More

Decisive Analytics has received a potential four-year, $42 million task order from the U.S. Army to provide software prototyping and experimentation support. The company said Thursday the Army Space and Missile Defense Command/Army Forces Strategic Command awarded the task order through the Design, Development, Demonstration and Integration Domain 2 multiple-award contract. Decisive Analytics will maintain and […] More

Eaton has received a contract of an undisclosed value from the Energy Department to produce and test integrated hydropower turbine and generator sets. The power management company said Wednesday the contract funds the second phase of a project DoE initially awarded in 2014 for the deployment of hydropower generation systems at existing non-powered dams and […] More

Raytheon has chosen Curtiss-Wright to supply winch system technology for integration into Variable Depth Sonar system of the U.S. Navy‘s Littoral Combat Ships. Curtiss-Wright said Thursday it aims to help Raytheon complete a pre-production test article of the VDS system by late 2018. The Navy awarded Raytheon a potential $300 million contract in May to build the anti-submarine technology for the service branch […] More

Cobham has received a contract to manufacture carriage systems for small diameter bombs that Boeing will provide to U.S. and international defense customers beginning in 2018. Cobham said Wednesday it will produce multiple configurations of the BRU-61/A SDB carriage system under the agreement with Boeing. The deal contains options for additional orders through 2021. BRU-61/A is designed to carry up to […] More

Vencore has received a potential 18-month, $5 million to continue to help the General Services Administration‘s Public Building Service integrate data and manage data repositories. The company said Thursday it will provide data repository and data integration, program and project management, and technical support services under the follow-on contract. PBS has worked with Vencore in the past […] More

The U.S. Army has completed the first-ever test of Lockheed Martin‘s updated PAC-3 missile interceptor from a remote launcher to assess the weapon system’s capacity to detect, track and intercept incoming threats. PAC-3 Missile Segment Enhancement intercepted a tactical ballistic missile target during the missile defense flight test held at the Reagan Test Site in the […] More

Engility has won a potential five-year, $16.5 million contract from the Defense Intelligence Agency to provide audio and video forensics laboratory services. The Defense Department said Thursday Engility will help DIA’s National Media Exploitation Center to perform digital forensics and in-depth exploitation of multimedia files. Work will occur in the National Capital Region through Sept. 20, 2022. […] More