The Swiss army has awarded General Dynamics‘ European land systems business unit a contract to deliver 70 DURO Armoured Personnel Carriers.
Under a program established in 2008, General Dynamics has already delivered DURO GMTF vehicles to the Swiss army. A company release says the deliveries were approved in 2010 by the Swiss parliament and they will take place in the fall of 2013.
The vehicles will be manufactured at General Dynamics’ facility in Kreuzlingen, Switzerland.
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Blue Origin, a space company owned by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, used a capsule with updated crew systems during the company's 14th mission with the New Shepard rocket. The updated capsule featured new push-to-talk communications systems, noise reduction tools, cushioned wall linings, environmental systems and a crew alert system, Blue Origin said Thursday.
A Teledyne Technologies subsidiary has secured an $18M contract from Northrop Grumman to manufacture four more missile defense systems for the U.S. Navy's littoral combat ship mission package.
Lockheed Martin has sent the Orion capsule to NASA’s exploration ground systems team for final preparations ahead of the unmanned Artemis I mission to lunar orbit that will launch later this year. The spacecraft concluded assembly operations and testing at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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