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Army taps Olin Corp. for $51.1M in small arms ammunition
Feb 28, 2018 (UPI)
The deal, announced Tuesday by the Department of Defense, is valued at more than $51.1 million and modifies a previous contract award. The contract taps the Win...
Army awards AM General $11.8M for 60 Humvees
Feb 26, 2018 (UPI)
The deal, announced Friday by the Department of Defense, is valued at more than $11.8 million under a modified contract. The HMMWV, or what is commonly known as...
Russia tested 'over 200 new weapons' in Syria: MP
Feb 22, 2018 (AFP)
"As we helped the brotherly Syrian people, we tested over 200 new types of weapons," said Vladimir Shamanov, a former commander of Russia's airborne troops who ...
Capco, Design West awarded $38M for M205 tripods
Feb 21, 2018 (UPI)
The deal, announced Tuesday by the Department of Defense, is valued at more than $38.9 million under the terms of a hybrid firm-fixed-price contract over the ne...
GenDym awarded contract for Army's Stryker vehicles
Feb 19, 2018 (UPI)
The deal, announced Friday by the Department of Defense, is a modification to a previously-awarded contract and is valued at more than $148.9 million. The Inter...
Marines drink cobra blood in US-Thai war drills
Feb 19, 2018 (AFP)
Now in its 37th year, Cobra Gold is one of the largest military exercises in Asia, bringing thousands of troops from the United States, Thailand and other count...
Rheinmetall to provide munitions to Navy, Marine Corps
Feb 14, 2018 (UPI)
Rheinmetall Defense said the Department of Defense awarded the company two multi-million-dollar munitions contracts that total nearly $7 million. For the Marine...
Marines successfully test mine plow prototype for assault breacher
Feb 09, 2018 (UPI)
The thinking behind that scenario is the driving force behind the Marine Corps' strategy to perfect the "beach assault." The U.S. Marine Corps this week announc...
Boeing contracted by Air Force for MOP 'bunker busters'
Feb 09, 2018 (UPI)
The deal, announced Thursday by the Department of Defense, is valued at more than $20.9 million. The GBU-57 MOP is a 30,000-pound, precision-guided "bunker bust...
Oshkosh awarded $476.2M contract for tactical vehicles
Feb 08, 2018 (UPI)
Oshkosh, headquartered in Wisconsin, expects to complete the A2 variant vehicles by Feb. 7, 2022, the U.S. Army announced on Wednesday. The 15-vehicle family, w...
China may be testing an Electromagnetic Railgun on naval ship
Feb 06, 2018 (Sputnik)
A photo of a huge gun barrel situated at the bow of a People's Liberation Army-Navy (PLA-N) Type 072-II amphibious warfare ship popped up on military technology...
Reading the body's history of threat exposure
Feb 06, 2018 (SPX)
DARPA's new Epigenetic CHaracterization and Observation (ECHO) program aims to build a field-deployable platform technology that quickly reads someone's epigeno...
Air Force awards Boeing $195M contract for JDAM tail kits
Feb 02, 2018 (UPI)
The deal, announced Thursday by the Department of Defense, is valued at more than $195 million under a fixed-price-incentive-firm modification, which is a modif...
Reconstructing an ancient lethal weapon
Feb 01, 2018 (SPX)
In an article published Jan. 31 in the Journal of Archaeological Science, Janice Wood, recent UW anthropology graduate, and Ben Fitzhugh, a UW professor of anth...
Army turns to BAE Systems for vehicle production
Feb 01, 2018 (UPI)
The deal, announced Wednesday by the Department of Defense, is valued at more than $148.8 million and enables the defense contractor to acquire early procuremen...
Raytheon awarded $95M contract for Excalibur support
Jan 30, 2018 (UPI)
The contract, announced by the Department of Defense on Monday, is a single-bid contract to support the U.S. Army's use of the GPS-guided artillery munition. Bo...
More than $17.5M awarded to Jacob Technology for services
Jan 26, 2018 (UPI)
The deal, announced Thursday by the U.S. Department of Defense, is valued at more than $17.5 million and modifies a previous award contract under the terms of a...
Army turns to Olin Corp. for small caliber ammo
Jan 26, 2018 (UPI)
The deal, announced Thursday by the Department of Defense, is valued at more than $43.3 million under a fixed-price with economic price adjustment modified cont...
Australia taps Elbit Systems for Blue Force Tracker
Jan 25, 2018 (UPI)
The deal, announced Thursday by Elbit Systems, is valued at $150 million under the terms of a five-year base period, with built-in options to extend the contrac...
Dyncorp to provide aviation field services to U.S. Army in Germany, Iraq, Afghanistan
Jan 24, 2018 (UPI)
The deal, announced Tuesday by the Department of Defense, is valued at more than $13.2 million and is a modification to a previous contract under the terms of a...
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