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  • BAE Secures Navy Missile Launcher Support Contract Modification - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Secures Navy Missile Launcher Support Contract Modification

    BAE Systems’ land and armaments business has received a $45.9M contract modification to provide mechanical engineering support for the U.S. Navy’s high-priority ballistic missile defense system. The Defense Department said Friday the company will provide cable, canister, canister support and mechanical equipment as well as related ancillary materials for the MK41 Vertical Launch System as part […] More

  • Lockheed Conducts Surface-Launched Anti-Ship Missile Test - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Conducts Surface-Launched Anti-Ship Missile Test

    Lockheed Martin has conducted a new flight test of the Long Range Anti-Ship Missile‘s surface-launch variant with the MK 41 vertical launch system aboard the U.S. Navy‘s Self Defense Test Ship. The company said Thursday the surface-launched LRASM worked to load mission data through the modified Tactical Tomahawk Weapon Control System, align mission data with the moving ship and launch from […] More