By Geoff Fein BAE SYSTEMS this week unveiled a new internally funded effort to develop a defensive weapon that will provide 360 degrees of suppressive fire for the V-22 Osprey. The Remote Guardian System (RGS) is designed to be belly mounted on the Bell Helicopter Textron [TXT]-Boeing [BA] V-22. ...

Saudi Arabia gave two contracts to Raytheon [RTN] totaling more than $100 million for air defense missile systems and other work. One pact involves a multi-year deal for Raytheon to continue providing technical, training and logistics support from this year through 2009 for Saudi Patriot and Hawk ...

Lockheed Martin [LMT] said Oct. 2 it has delivered an AN/TPS-59(V)3B ballistic missile defense radar system to Bahrain. The radar is in use by the Bahrain Defence Force for air surveillance after a successful site acceptance test in August. In May 2004, the U.S. Marine Corps awarded Lockheed ...

The Senate this week passed a bill to fund the defense department in fiscal year 2008. Just before the Senate agreed to the bill, the leaders of the Senate Appropriations defense subcommittee agreed to consider in conference the need to provide additional Stryker Brigade Combat Teams for the ...

By Geoff Fein Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) is in the midst of an effort with 11 of its largest industry partners to examine why some programs are facing cost and/or schedule issues. In July, Navy officials, including Delores Etter, the service's acquisition chief, and Rear Adm. Allen Myers, ...

By Michael Sirak Adding a datalink to the Air Force's current fleet of HH-60G Pave Hawk combat-search and-rescue (CSAR) helicopters remains critical so that the aircrews and pararescue personnel can receive in-flight threat updates and readily transition between missions in the air, the commander ...

By Calvin Biesecker After a half-year delay, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) said yesterday that beginning on Oct. 16 it will start enrolling workers at the Port of Wilmington, Del., to receive new identity credentials that eventually are supposed to control access to secure areas ...

By Ann Roosevelt Raytheon [RTN] sees major growth in a relatively new business area for them--the world of Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) acquisition, according to a company executive. Since starting the business effort, growth has been stunning, Susan Haeseler, director of the ...

By Jen DiMascio Senate appropriators pledged yesterday to provide $11.5 billion to fully fund the Defense Department's fiscal year 2008 requirement for Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicles. Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii), the chairman of the Senate Appropriations defense subcommittee, ...

Air Force Gen. Kevin Chilton assumed command of U.S. Strategic Command (STRATCOM) yesterday, taking the helm from Air Force Lt. Gen. Robert Kehler, who has been leading the command on an interim basis while Chilton's nomination stood before the Senate. A formal ceremony recognizing the assumption ...