Saturday, May 11, 2024
The Army's aviation program executive office today accepted the transfer of the Enhanced Medium Altitude Reconnaissance and Surveillance aircraft from the intelligence, electronic warfare and sensors PEO, according to a service statement.
The United States has offered India the opportunity to jointly develop a next-generation Javelin anti-tank missile, according to Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton Carter.
American Eurocopter announced today that it plans to set up a final assembly line and test site for the company's AS350 civilian helicopter at the Columbus, MS, plant that builds UH-72A Lakota helicopters for the Army, according to a company statement.
Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) has asked the Justice Department to help investigate possible criminal activity by the Army's non-standard rotary-wing aircraft project office in its pursuit of Russian Mi-17 helicopters for the Afghan army, according to a Sept. 16 letter he sent to Attorney General Eric Holder.
The Missile Defense Agency successfully intercepted two medium-range ballistic missile targets using a variety of key missile defense systems from the services in a complex flight test -- a follow-on to another large-scale test conducted in October 2012 -- according to a Pentagon statement released today.
Bell Helicopter announced today it will team up with Lockheed Martin to design and build the V-280 Valor -- Bell's design for the Joint Multi-Role air vehicle technology demonstrator competition, according to a company statement.
The Pentagon announced two major foreign military sales for Apache helicopters last month -- one with South Korea and the other with Indonesia -- that totaled nearly $1.5 billion, suggesting that AH-64s are gaining major popularity abroad.
The Army is developing a new way to test off-the-shelf unmanned ground systems before committing to big contracts, according to a service official.
Boeing has delivered two of its four Enhanced Medium Altitude Reconnaissance and Surveillance aircraft to Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD, with more expected soon, according to an Army spokesman.
The Army and the Marine Corps want to discontinue the practice of acquiring purpose-built, unmanned ground vehicles in favor of a system that has a common chassis with different sizes and modular payloads, according to officials from both services.
Northrop Grumman has wrapped up its preliminary design review for the Common Infrared Countermeasure system, providing its design to the Army on schedule, according to a company official who oversees the program.
Army Secretary John McHugh and Chief of Staff Gen. Raymond Odierno have set up a high-level group to quickly recommend how best to enact sweeping spending cuts, according to an Aug. 14 internal memorandum obtained by InsideDefense.com.
The Army's top budget programmer is concerned that the Defense Department may not preserve enough of its bandwidth to effectively operate its network-centric future as DOD begins to sell frequencies to industry to pay some of its bills.
In line with their House counterparts, the Senate Appropriations Committee moved last week to fully restore funding cuts the Army made to the LUH-72A Lakota helicopter program, according to a report accompanying the committee's fiscal year 2014 spending bill.
The Army, the Air Force and Raytheon successfully tested the Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor System's ability to detect a missile and pass the data to an Air Force fighter jet in enough time for the aircraft to defeat the threat, according to Army and company officials.
The Army decided this month not to award a contract to Raytheon to continue the company's Joint Air-To-Ground Missile technology development effort, but plans to keep Lockheed Martin through the remainder of the program's TD phase, according to an Army spokesman.
House lawmakers last night approved an amendment to the fiscal year 2014 defense appropriations bill that would stop the Pentagon from training Afghans to fly Russian-made Mi-17 helicopters.
The Army has completed a six-week early user test of its Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor System that assessed soldiers' ability to effectively operate a pair of tethered aerostats equipped with fire-control and surveillance radars, according to the JLENS program director for Raytheon, the prime contractor.
The Pentagon's inspector general is conducting an audit of the Army's Integrated Air and Missile Defense program, according to a memo from the IG's office.
Sens. Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) and Mark Begich (D-AK) want the Defense Department to stop buying Mi-17 helicopters from controversial Russian state-owned exporter Rosoboronexport -- and they want the White House to impose sanctions on the corporation.