BAE Systems Land & Armaments L.P., Minneapolis, Minnesota, is awarded a $18,416,693 cost-plus-fixed-fee and cost-only modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-21-C-5393) to exercise options for MK 41 Vertical Launching Systems Mechanical Design Agent. This modification combines ...

FVL CFT/Autonomy. The Army’s Future Vertical Lift Cross-Functional Team is looking at potentially taking on autonomy as its official fifth line of effort, the organization’s director told reporters on April 24. “We are assessing what would be another line of effort. And I think, right now, ...

Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., San Diego, California, was awarded a $387,545,690 definitized contract action for Global Hawk (RQ-4) aircraft sustainment. This contract provides for contractor logistics support services. The locations of performance are Sacheon Air Base, Republic of Korea; Osan Air ...

The Navy awarded RTX [RTX] a $344 million contract in March to develop two new Standard Missile (SM) variants that focus on a new common guidance section for U.S. and allied fleets. The company will specifically develop the SM-2 Block IICU and SM-6 Block IU. These variants will both share a common ...

Lockheed Martin Rotary and Mission Systems, Moorestown, New Jersey, is awarded a $102,064,704 cost-plus-incentive-fee modification to previously-awarded contract N00024-23-C-5123 for capability package development and fielding, system integration and fielding, and in-service sustainment in support ...

Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., Melbourne, Florida, is awarded a $26,219,305 modification (P00031) to a cost-plus-fixed-fee order (N0001921F0889) against a previously issued basic ordering agreement (N0001920G0005). This modification exercises an option to provide sustainment and technical support ...

The Secretary of the Navy this week told a congressional panel that the service has used nearly $1 billion in critical munitions in Middle East operations in the past year and a pending supplemental spending bill is key to replenish them. “We currently have approaching $1 billion in munitions ...

The Under Secretary of Defense for Research and  Engineering said the schedule for the Missile Defense Agency’s (MDA) interceptor aimed at hypersonic missile threats is slipping due to lower funding than planned. “I think the schedule slipping is really dependent on the money we can get. So ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.— The importance of allies and partners working together to understand what military deterrence in space activities means, and define what rogue behaviors should trigger deterrence, has become a bigger part of space domain situational awareness. Military commanders, ...

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. – This week the Secretary of the Navy argued here that the U.S. Navy and industry should move toward the standards of shipbuilding he’s seen in South Korea and Japan in a recent trip. “When my team and I went to South Korea we were floored at the level of digitization ...