http://defensedaily.com Defense Daily en-us 2008 Mon, 6 Oct 2008 13:35:26 EDT By Calvin Biesecker ICx Technologies [ICXT] has received a potential $711 million contract for the development and production for Increment II of the Joint Nuclear, Biological, Chemical Reconnaissance System (JNBCRS 2) program, by far the largest award in the... http://defensedaily.com/sectors/army/4194.html Thu, 2 Oct 2008 0:00:00 EDT By Ann Roosevelt Alliant Techsystems [ATK] and FN Manufacturing LLC (FNMI) said Sept. 30 they have received a $53.4 million contract to produce Mk19 Mod-3 Grenade Machine Guns (GMG). This will be the first crew-served weapon system manufactured by ATK... http://defensedaily.com/sectors/army/4182.html Wed, 1 Oct 2008 0:00:00 EDT By Ann Roosevelt Top House Armed Services Committee (HASC) members this week expressed their concerns to Defense Secretary Robert Gates about Army funding in fiscal year 2010 for Abrams, Stryker and Bradley combat vehicles, in favor of funding the Future... http://defensedaily.com/sectors/army/4188.html Wed, 1 Oct 2008 0:00:00 EDT By Ann Roosevelt Oshkosh Corp [OSK] is ready to solve weight and power issues important to the Marine Corps with the Medium Tactical Vehicle Replacement (MTVR) 4x4 and an MTVR with On-Board Vehicle Power (OBVP), company officials say. Both vehicles are... http://defensedaily.com/sectors/army/4147.html Tue, 30 Sep 2008 0:00:00 EDT By Geoff Fein In the past 60 days, the Marine Corps has bought almost 2,000 unmanned air vehicles (UAV) from the Army and Air Force, in response to a warfighters' urgent needs requests, a Navy official said. In order to quickly get systems to Marines in... http://defensedaily.com/sectors/army/4106.html Mon, 29 Sep 2008 0:00:00 EDT ATK [ATK] and Raytheon [RTN] last week won initial contracts totaling $20.7 million to begin the Excalibur Increment IB effort. The Joint Munitions and Lethality Life Cycle Management Command Acquisition Center awarded the two 18-month Phase 1 contracts... http://defensedaily.com/sectors/army/4107.html Mon, 29 Sep 2008 0:00:00 EDT By Calvin Biesecker Boeing [BA] on Friday said it has agreed to acquire Tapestry Solutions, a small California-based firm specializing in real-time logistics visibility and logistics modeling and simulation, opening a new product and service for its defense... http://defensedaily.com/sectors/army/4108.html Mon, 29 Sep 2008 0:00:00 EDT L-3 Communications [LLL] last week said it presented the first C-27J Joint Cargo Aircraft (JCA) to the Army-Air Force joint program office on schedule and on budget. This was the first of a planned 78 aircraft, contractor said. The L-3 team comprised of... http://defensedaily.com/sectors/army/4109.html Mon, 29 Sep 2008 0:00:00 EDT By Ann Roosevelt As soon as today, a meeting between the leaders of the Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) and Air Combat Command (ACC) could resolve a concept of operations for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) in joint operations, according to a top... http://defensedaily.com/sectors/army/4102.html Fri, 26 Sep 2008 0:00:00 EDT By Emelie Rutherford The House passed yesterday the final compromise versions of fiscal year 2009 defense appropriations and authorization legislation--which call for continuing DDG-1000 destroyer production while potentially reviving the DDG-51 program... http://defensedaily.com/sectors/army/4090.html Thu, 25 Sep 2008 0:00:00 EDT By Ann Roosevelt Battelle and the Army Aviation and Missile Command (AMCOM) are working together on the Continuous Technology Refreshment (CTR) program to address the decades old problem of obsolescence and technology insertion for fielded weapon systems... http://defensedaily.com/sectors/army/4073.html Wed, 24 Sep 2008 0:00:00 EDT By Ann Roosevelt The Army's Future Combat Systems (FCS) program yesterday announced the successful firing of the first artillery projectile from the Manned Ground Vehicle (MGV) Non-Line-of- Sight Cannon (NLOS-C) Prototype 1. The NLOS-C is a fully automated... http://defensedaily.com/sectors/army/4074.html Wed, 24 Sep 2008 0:00:00 EDT By Emelie Rutherford The Senate's Wednesday night passage of a sparsely amended defense authorization bill kicked into high gear House-Senate negotiations over differences between each chamber's version of the legislation for fiscal year 2009, which starts in... http://defensedaily.com/sectors/army/4038.html Fri, 19 Sep 2008 0:00:00 EDT General Dynamics' [GD] C4 Systems last week announced it was awarded a $70 million contract to equip the 5th Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division Stryker Brigade Combat Team (5/2 SBCT) with a new, lighter-weight version of the Land Warrior integrated fighting... http://defensedaily.com/sectors/army/3971.html Tue, 16 Sep 2008 0:00:00 EDT General Dynamics [GD] UK displays the latest rapid improvements it can deliver to soldiers in response to the urgent operational requirements (UOR) of British forces at a British Army demonstration Sept. 17-18. "General Dynamics UK has a strong pedigree... http://defensedaily.com/sectors/army/3973.html Tue, 16 Sep 2008 0:00:00 EDT By Ann Roosevelt Canadian Forces will receive six U.S. Chinook helicopters, an essential capability supporting their Afghanistan operations, while the U.S. Army supports a coalition partner and interoperability under a Letter of Offer and Acceptance (LoA)... http://defensedaily.com/sectors/army/3974.html Tue, 16 Sep 2008 0:00:00 EDT By Emelie Rutherford Senate defense appropriators have staked out different stances than their House counterparts on troubled aircraft efforts, including calling for greater funding reductions to the presidential helicopter and Armed Reconnaissance Helicopter... http://defensedaily.com/sectors/army/3976.html Tue, 16 Sep 2008 0:00:00 EDT By Ann Roosevelt The Army's acquisition process needs to change from a cumbersome process to one that is more responsive to service needs, according to a top official. "The question is how do you build an acquisition process that allows you to get new... http://defensedaily.com/sectors/army/3926.html Thu, 11 Sep 2008 0:00:00 EDT By Emelie Rutherford The Senate Appropriations Defense subcommittee (SAC-D) included funds yesterday in its marked-up bill for a third DDG-1000 destroyer for the Navy in fiscal year 2009, ensuring the battle over continuing the ship program is divided between... http://defensedaily.com/sectors/army/3928.html Thu, 11 Sep 2008 0:00:00 EDT By Ann Roosevelt Army Space and Missile Defense Command (SMDC) is moving forward toward a mobile speed-of-light laser weapon system that could, late in the next decade, potentially become part of the Army's battlefield systems. The driving force for the... http://defensedaily.com/sectors/army/3916.html Wed, 10 Sep 2008 0:00:00 EDT