Lockheed Martin secured a $10.5M contract to produce a modular pod technology for the U.S. Army's Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System.
Read More »Army to Tap Lockheed for Multiple Launch Rocket System Upgrade Work
The U.S. Army is looking to award Lockheed Martin a potential eight-year contract to help the military service update up to 385 Multiple Launch Rocket Systems. In a FedBizOpps notice posted Wednesday stated the Army wants to extend the operational life of the MLRS Launcher through 2050 and seeks contractor support to update and install …
Read More »Army Requests Info on Multiple Launch Rocket System Engineering Support Services
The U.S. Army‘s Precision Fires Rocket and Missile Systems Project Office is requesting for information on engineering services required in test activities of multiple launch rocket systems. The office requires these services to support the MLRS Launcher Instrumentation Data Acquisition System and the MLRS Family of Munitions Weapons Simulator in …
Read More »Oshkosh Defense to Supply Missile Transport Equipment to Qatar, Kuwait Through FMS Contract
An Oshkosh subsidiary has received a $15.4 million foreign military sales contract from the U.S. Army to provide missile transport equipment and training support to Qatar and Kuwait. Oshkosh Defense will deliver M985A4 guided missile transporters with cranes, M985A4 Heavy Expanded Mobility Tactical Truck, Multiple-Launch Rocket System resupply trucks, M984A4 HEMTT wreckers and M983A4 HEMTT …
Read More »Army Receives 1st Tactical Missile System From Lockheed’s Arkansas Production Facility
Lockheed Martin has shipped the first Army Tactical Missile System from a manufacturing facility in Camden, Arkansas, to the U.S. Army as part of a contract to produce ATACMS weapons for the service branch and a foreign military customer. Lockheed said Thursday the missile was built at the company’s Precision Fires Production …
Read More »Army Seeks Concept Papers for $148M Long-Range Missile System Devt Program
The U.S. Army has asked industry to submit concept papers for a potential four-year, $148 million program that aims to identify, develop and demonstrate long-range missile systems. A broad agency announcement posted Monday on FedBizOpps says the Army Aviation and Missile Research, Development and Engineering Center seeks new system- and …
Read More »Lockheed Martin Supplies Updated Tactical Missile System to Army
The U.S. Army has received the first updated Tactical Missile System with new guidance electronics and target elimination features from Lockheed Martin. Lockheed said Wednesday the TACMS missiles underwent a refurbishment process at its production facility in Camden, Arkansas, in effort to extend the missiles’ service life. The process also works to allow the integration of …
Read More »Marvin Group Unit to Update Auxiliary Power Units on Army Rocket-Launching Vehicles
A Marvin Group business unit will redesign and update the auxiliary power units in the vehicle electronics of Multiple Launch Rocket System vehicles under a pre-solicitation notice issued by the U.S. Army, Military & Aerospace Electronics reported Thursday. The report stated that Marvin Land Systems will work to further develop the MLRS’ electric and hydraulic …
Read More »Army Tests Lockheed’s Updated Multiple Launch Rocket System
The U.S. Army has tested an upgraded version of a Lockheed Martin-built multiple launch rocket system at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico as part of the military service’s Improved Armored Cab initiative. The M270A1 MLRS is designed with a missile and rocket launch platform and fired 138 …
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