Ten months after Epirus and General Dynamics [GD] partnered to integrate a directed energy system aboard the Stryker wheeled combat vehicle, the companies on Wednesday said they have successfully demonstrated Epirus’ Leonidas counter-electronics array aboard the GD-built vehicle in disabling ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala.— The U.S. Army has signed a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with Collins Aerospace [RTX] to develop a new approach to airworthiness certification of multicore processors and safety critical systems modularity. During a Sept. 28 media briefing held at their ...

As congressional appropriators are poised to add several hundred million dollars in fiscal 2023 for the U.S. Army’s Enhanced Night Vision Goggle-Binocular (ENVG-B), Elbit Systems of America said that it is planning to build more than 100,000 ENVG-Bs. The Army requested no funding for ENVG-B ...

General Dynamics Land Systems [GD] next week will unveil two new hybrid-electric technology demonstrator platforms, an AbramsX and StrykerX, as the company aims to showcase its latest in combat vehicle advancements. Company officials told Defense Daily the two vehicles, which will both be on ...

Lockheed Martin [LMT] is set to begin lab testing later this year of its new directed energy system that it will offer for the Army’s expected competition to field a Stryker-mounted 50-kilowatt laser system. Following the “first light” of the new Directed Energy Interceptor for Maneuver ...

The Army has awarded Lockheed Martin [LMT] a contract worth up to $158 million to produce additional Precision Strikes Missiles (PrSM) to meet an early operational capability (EOC) requirement, the company said Thursday. The new deal, which is the second production contract to date for PrSM, begins ...