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BAE Systems' U.S. subsidiary has entered the medium-size unmanned undersea vehicle market with the introduction of its first UUV offering after the company acquired Riptide Autonomous Solutions in June last year.

BAE Systems has been awarded a potential seven-year, $111.6 million contract by the Department of Defense (DoD) to manufacture and deliver Archerfish mine neutralizers to the U.S. Navy, marking the fourth consecutive Archerfish contract awarded to the company since 2003, BAE announced Monday. Archerfish will continue to support the Navy in live mine clearance operations.

BAE Systems and Leonardo have been awarded a potential $420M contract to develop the Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA), the European Common Radar System Mark 2 (ECRS Mk2) for the Royal Air Force's (RAF) Eurofighter Typhoons, BAE said Thursday. Under the contract, the two companies will work to develop a standard radar to be integrated on to RAF Typhoons.

BAE Systems presented a live-stream event for the U.S. Army's first Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle that came off the assembly line Monday. The branch will initially receive the mission command variant of AMPV, which is designed for use by armored brigade combat teams as part of a network modernization strategy, BAE said Tuesday.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, August 31, 2020 — BAE Systems will design a prototype for the U.S. Marine Corps' planned warfighting center in Quantico, Va., under a potential $19M contract, GovCon Wire reported Aug. 14.

BAE Systems will modernize the U.S. Navy's guided-missile destroyers USS Carney (DDG 64) and USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG 81) under a potential $211.6 million contract, the company announced Wednesday.

DirectViz Solutions has appointed Chuck Thompson as chief operating officer, effective immediately, the company announced Monday. Thompson brings more than 30 years of management and leadership experience to DirectViz Solutions’ executive team.

BAE Systems' U.S. subsidiary became the sixth member company of the GPS Innovation Alliance, which aims to promote the adoption of global positioning systems and secure the technology.

Vinnie Tran, president and chairman of the Board of Directors for DirectViz Solutions (DVS), made the announcement on Friday that Michael McHugh, formerly the company’s chief operating officer, has now been appointed DVS’ new CEO, effective immediately. 

TYSONS CORNER, VA, August 7, 2020 — BAE Systems received its first order under a potential $823M U.S. Army indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to apply an analytics software framework into the branch's Distributed Common Ground System, GovCon Wire reported July 24.

Tenax Aerospace has appointed Joe Boeckx as executive vice president of Business Development, effective Aug. 17, the company announced Wednesday. Boeckx, a U.S. Army veteran and former Department of Defense serviceman, brings a deep experience across aerospace and defense industries. Prior to joining Tenax, Boeckx served as executive vice president of Corporate Development at Akima.

The U.S. Army has awarded BAE Systems a multiyear, $33M contract to continue development of a fuze technology designed to increase the accuracy of long-range munition strikes.

The team of BAE Systems and QinetiQ secured a $32M contract to equip a U.S. Army ground vehicle with a hybrid electric drive technology as part of the service's Combat Vehicle Power and Energy systems development program.

BAE Systems has added a fourth Stratasys-built F900 3D printer to the British defense contractor's manufacturing site in Samlesbury, England, The installation will add to BAE’s “Factory of the Future” initiative, which will develop an innovative facility in Lancashire to advance technology and manufacturing work, Stratasys said Wednesday.

BAE Systems has delivered an artificial intelligence-based technology evaluation software to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency as part of the latter’s Competency-Aware Machine Learning program.