Defence Industry

LM Delivers Lightweight Prime Mover Vehicles to the U.S. Marine Corps

Lockheed Martin's Tactical Wheeled Vehicle (TWV) program has delivered four Lightweight Prime Mover (LWPM) vehicles to the United States Marine Corps. The LWPM will tow the new M777 lightweight 155-mm artillery howitzer.

Defence Industry

PVI wins MRAP production awards

North Charleston, SC - Protected Vehicles, Inc. announces receipt of a production order for 60 MRAP Category II vehicles for the US Marine Corps. Additionally, PVI will serve as a subcontractor to Oshkosh Truck Corporation for 100 MRAP Category I vehicles.

Defence Industry

BAE Systems Offers Emergency Escape Windows for Up-armored Vehicles

BAE Systems is offering its Vehicle Emergency Escape (VEE) Window to help increase the survivability of soldiers and Marines in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Defence Industry

DFNS Announces a First Order from a Leading US Supplier of Armored Buses

Defense Industries International, Inc., a leading manufacturer and global provider of personal military and civilian protective equipment and supplies, today that its fully owned subsidiary: Mayotex Ltd., has signed a frame agreement to serve as a non-exclusive manufacturer and marketing representative of a leading US provider of armored buses, based on truck chassis.

Defence Industry

Additional Heavy Tank Transporters for Australian Army

Australian Defence Materiel Organisation (DMO) has placed an order for four more Heavy Tank Transporters. These vehicles are in addition to the 14 Heavy Tank Transporters already being delivered by the LAND 907 Tank Program.

Defence Industry

FCS Successfully Completes Experiment and Soldier-testing of Key Technologies

The Boeing Company and Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), functioning as the Lead Systems Integrator for the U.S. Army's Future Combat Systems (FCS) program, have successfully completed an eight-month experiment that is a cornerstone of soldier evaluation activities and an important step toward the early infusion of key FCS capabilities to the current force.

Defence Industry

LM Receives $18.6M U.S. Army BCS3 Follow-On Contract

The U.S. Army awarded Lockheed Martin a follow-on three-year $18.6 million contract, with a fourth-year option, for the Battle Command Sustainment Support System (BCS3). BCS3 is the Army's maneuver sustainment command and control system used to fuse in-transit, logistical support and force data to aid commanders in making critical decisions.

Defence Industry

BAE SYSTEMS Receives Follow-on Contract for New Swedish Artillery System

BAE Systems received a SEK 100 million contract from the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration for the next phase of the Archer program. The contract includes the next step in the development of the gun system and the product definition phase on ammunition supply vehicle and modular charges.

Defence Industry

Northrop Grumman to Test Fire Kinetic Energy Interceptor Booster

The Kinetic Energy Interceptor program, under development by prime contractor Northrop Grumman Corporation, is on schedule to meet the Missile Defense Agency's (MDA) objective of a 2008 booster flight, the company said today.

Defence Industry

GD Awarded Test Vehicle Contract for Four Mine Resistant Ambush Protected Vehicles

U.S. Marine Corps Systems Command (MCSC) has awarded General Dynamics Land Systems-Canada an Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract and an initial delivery order for the testing, production and support of four Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicles.

Defence Industry

Oshkosh Truck Contracted by USMC To Provide Four Armored Vehicles For Testing

Oshkosh Truck Corporation announced today that the company has been awarded a contract by Marine Corps Systems Command to provide four test vehicles in support of the Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicle program. Under the contract, Oshkosh will provide two Category I and two Category II vehicles, which will then undergo testing at the government's Aberdeen Proving Ground. Oshkosh Truck was one of several companies awarded a contract to provide vehicles for testing under the MRAP initiative.

Defence Industry

Armor Holdings Receives $19 Million FMTV Order

Armor Holdings, Inc., a leading manufacturer and distributor of military vehicles, vehicle armor systems and life safety and survivability systems serving military, law enforcement, homeland security and commercial markets, announced the receipt of a $19 million order from the U.S. Army Tank-automotive and Armaments Command (TACOM) for the production of additional Family of Medium Tactical Vehicle (FMTV) vehicles.

Defence Industry

SciSys To Play Role in Armoured Vehicle Survivability Programme

SciSys will investigate the role of NEC in vehicle survivability as part of a QinetiQ led team.

Defence Industry

QinetiQ wins GBP9.48M armoured vehicle 'survivability' contract

A QinetiQ led team has competitively bid and won a pound 9.48m MOD research contract to deliver the Vehicle Technology Integration Demonstrator (VTID) programme.

Defence Industry

Raytheon Successfully Tests New Solid-State Laser Area Defense System

Raytheon Company successfully tested a prototype solid-state laser weapon that combines the proven capabilities of the Phalanx weapon system with the power and effectiveness of lasers to defeat rockets, mortars and missiles at an operationally significant range.