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American Rheinmetall Vehicles has added Anduril Industries to a team of defense contractors it is leading to propose a next generation infantry fighting vehicle under a U.S. Army program. The Rheinmetall business said Tuesday Anduril will provide customized command and control software for Lynx, an IFV platform the industry team is working on to offer […] More
BAE Systems‘ land and armaments subsidiary has received a one-year, $49.7 million contract from the U.S. Army to provide the company-built infantry fighting vehicles to the service branch. The full amount was obligated at the time of the award using the Army’s fiscal 2022 weapons and tracked combat vehicle procurement funds, the Department of Defense said […] More
L3Harris Technologies and Rheinmetall’s U.S. defense arm have agreed to pursue the U.S. Army’s Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle program that seeks to replace the service's Bradley infantry vehicles. L3Harris will provide cybersecurity and vehicle mission systems and share its modular open systems approach to support the development of American Rheinmetall Vehicles’ Lynx platform for the OMFV program.
Toby O“™Brien, chief financial officer of Raytheon, told Defense One in an interview published Thursday that the company “did get some incremental work“ when it comes to hypersonics and counter-hypersonics and saw its backlog rise to approximately $750M through the third quarter of 2019.
The U.S. Army has received proposals from vendors seeking to build prototypes for the Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle program, which seeks to replace the service branch“™s Bradley fighting vehicles by 2026, Defense News reported Tuesday.
Col. Chuck Worshim, program manager for cruise missile defense systems at the U.S. Army“™s program executive office missiles and space, has said General Dynamics“™ land systems business will serve as the platform integrator for the service“™s Interim Maneuver Short-Range Air Defense platform, Defense News reported Thursday. The IM-SHORAD system seeks to address a capability gap in the […] More
The government of Bulgaria has asked the parliament“™s permission to approve the planned procurement of up to 16 fighter aircraft and 150 combat vehicles, SeeNews.com reported Wednesday. Bulgaria intends to make the fighter jet procurement in two phases with plans to buy up to eight aircraft worth approximately $1.1 billion in total under the first […] More
The U.S. Army plans to have a contract in place by August for mission equipment packages to convert Stryker armored vehicles into short-range air defense systems and expects to have prototypes by the spring of 2019, Defense News reported Wednesday. Col. Chuck Worshim, project manager for cruise missile defense systems at the Army“™s program executive […] More
BAE Systems has proposed a combat vehicle for the U.S. Army“™s Mobile Protected Firepower program. The MPF program seeks to provide the service“™s infantry brigade combat teams with a precision firepower capability and help IBCTs maneuver through various terrain conditions, BAE said Thursday. Jim Miller, director of business development at BAE“™s combat vehicles business, said the […] More
Barry Pike, program executive officer for missiles and space at the U.S. Army, has said the service considers using the Stryker combat vehicle as the basis for its provisional Manuever-Short-Range Air Defense system in response to a SHORAD capability gap identified in Europe in 2016, Defense News reported Thursday. “At this point it“™s going to be […] More
Cummins has teamed up with Achates Power to build and demonstrate an engine for the U.S. Army“™s next-generation tactical and combat vehicles under a $47.4 million contract. Cummins said Thursday it secured the contract from the National Advanced Mobility Consortium as part of the Advanced Combat Engine project that supports the Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and […] More
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