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U.S. House of Representatives Votes 2013 Defense Budget
2012-05-21 Read More...
The Republican-led House of Representatives voted on Friday to authorize $642.5 billion in defense spending next year, defying a White House veto threat by adding several billion dollars to President Barack Obama’s Pentagon budget

Rheinmetall at the ITEC 2012 Simulation Tradeshow
2012-05-21 Read More...
With over 2,000 systems in service worldwide, Rheinmetall offers a comprehensive array of products ranging from inexpensive computer-supported training systems to highly advanced full-mission simulators for surface combatants, submarines, land and

Raytheon Wins Phalanx Contract
2012-05-21 Read More...
The U.S. Navy awarded Raytheon a contract totaling $57.8 million to overhaul and upgrade 9 Phalanx Close-In Weapon Systems, and manufacture 2 SeaRAM anti-ship missile defense systems.

NGC Demonstrates New Target Location Module
2012-05-18 Read More...
Northrop Grumman Corporation (NGC) has announced the successful demonstration of the company's new Target Location Module (TLM), a key component of the battle-proven, man-portable Lightweight Laser Designator Rangefinder High Accuracy (LLDR

LM Demonstrates New Standalone Launching System
2012-05-17 Read More...
Lockheed Martin successfully demonstrated the latest variant of its new launching system that maximizes the use of existing hardware and electronics to reduce the integration costs of weapons by more than

General Dynamics’ New Medium-Caliber Machine Gun
2012-05-16 Read More...
General Dynamics Armament and Technical Products, a business unit of General Dynamics (GD), today unveiled a next-generation Lightweight Medium Machine Gun (LWMMG) at the Joint Armaments Conference in Seattle,

Telephonics' Maritime Radar on MH-60S Helicopter
2012-05-16 Read More...
Telephonics Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Griffon Corporation, announced that the U.S. Navy conducted an exercise to demonstrate several Anti Surface Warfare concepts of operation using an MH-60S (Sierra) helicopter in conjunction with a

Lockheed’s 2nd Generation Aegis BMD Intercepts Missile
2012-05-16 Read More...
The Missile Defense Agency (MDA), U.S. Navy and Lockheed Martin team successfully intercepted a ballistic missile target for the first time, using the second generation of the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) system, known as Aegis BMD

NGC Wins LITENING G4 Targeting Pods Contract
2012-05-15 Read More...
Northrop Grumman Corporation (NGC) has been awarded a delivery order by the Naval Air Systems Command totaling $103 million to deliver LITENING G4 targeting

Harris Wins Falcon III Multiband Manpack Radios Order
2012-05-15 Read More...
Harris Corporation, an international communications and information technology company, has been awarded a $75 million indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract - with an initial delivery order of $8 million - for its Falcon III®

F-35 to Replace Most US Combat Fleet by 2020
2012-05-14 Read More...
The Pentagon plans to have the F-35 fighter jet replace most of the combat aircraft fleet of the US Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps by the end of the

Boeing & USAF Complete 1st QF-16 Aerial Target Flight
2012-05-14 Read More...
Boeing and the U.S. Air Force completed the first manned flight of the QF-16 Full Scale Aerial Target (FSAT) on May 4 at Cecil Field in Jacksonville,

Raytheon Completes 1st Flight Test of Improved SM-3
2012-05-11 Read More...
Raytheon completed the first successful flight test of the Standard Missile-3 Block IB, which is the cornerstone of phase two of the administration's Phased Adaptive Approach (PAA). This is the 20th successful intercept for Raytheon's SM-3

FN MAG Machine Gun Goes Polymer
2012-05-10 Read More...
The 7.62x51mm NATO caliber FN MAG - designed, developed, manufactured and marketed by Belgium-based small arms manufacturer FN Herstal - comes now standard with a polymer

First Travis C-5B Inducted
2012-05-10 Read More...
Lockheed Martin last week inducted into its facilities in Marietta, Georgia, the first C-5B Galaxy from Travis Air Force Base, California, to become a C-5M Super

Boeing KC-46 Tanker Completes Preliminary Design Review
2012-05-09 Read More...
The Boeing KC-46 Tanker program has completed a Preliminary Design Review (PDR) with the U.S. Air Force, a key milestone in the development of the next-generation aerial refueling

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