Raytheon has won an additional contract to a previously awarded $122 Million order for procuring 114 Tomahawk Block IV missiles for the US Navy. This completes the Navy's planned purchase of 214 Tomahawk Block IV missiles for fiscal year 2015 and continues to build the inventory to support warfighting requirements, the company announced in its press release on Tuesday Dave Adams, Raytheon Tomahawk senior program director said, "Raytheon continues an acute focus on maintaining affordability and enhancing the impressive capabilities of this sophisticated weapon system"
Northrop Grumman has won a $267 million contract by the U.S
The Lockheed Martin Australia has won a contract for supplying a C-130J-30 Virtual Maintenance Trainer and a Multi-Function Training Aid (MFTA) to support aircrew training of Royal Australian Air Force. Through this major upgrade, the RAAF will have a standardized curriculum tailored for its operations and based on decades of C-130 training innovation by Lockheed Martin
Raytheon is developing an extended range variant of the combat-proven Advanced Medium Range Air to Air Missile (AMRAAM) for ground-air defense and will enable intercepts at longer range and higher altitudes. "The new missile will be even faster and more maneuverable than the current AMRAAM," said Mike Jarrett Raytheon vice president of Air Warfare Systems in companys press statement on Sunday
Northrop Grumman will showcase a range of systems including airborne early warning and control, C4ISR, radars, defence electronics, cyber security and an upgraded helicopter cockpit at IDEX 2015. The company will also feature leading maritime capabilities, including mine-countermeasure solutions ALMDS and AQS-24, at NAVDEX, the naval defence and maritime security section of IDEX
VSE Corporation together with partner Saudi Prerogative Company (SPC) will showcase their wide range of defense sustainment capabilities, including the maintenance, repair, overhaul and modernization of land, sea and air systems a IDEX 2015 in Abu Dhabi. VSE and SPC have recently formed a Saudi-registered Joint Venture Company, VSE Arabia, dedicated to providing world-class platform, system and equipment sustainment to the Saudi market
Northrop Grumman has recently supplied the 1,000th AN/AAQ-37 Distributed Aperture System (DAS) sensor for integration on the F-35 Lightning II aircraft. The six infrared DAS sensors on the F-35 provide full spherical situational awareness to the pilot, day and night
Raytheon has won a $15 million contract from the US Navy to provide an open system application-based architecture (ABA) to fleet of P-8A Poseidon maritime surveillance aircraft. Under this contract, Raytheon will deliver two prototype ABA systems featuring software-based mission applications and services-oriented architecture and airborne Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) computing capabilities
Airbus has won a $220.5 million contract from the US army for procurement of more 41 UH-72A Lakota helicopters equipped with Airborne Radio Communications 231 radios
The Lockheed Martin has laid the keel for the US Navy's thirteenth Littoral Combat Ship (LCS), USS Wichita in a ceremony held at Marinette Marine Corporation Monday. The Lockheed Martin-led LCS team includes ship builder Marinette Marine Corporation, a Fincantieri company, naval architect Gibbs & Cox, as well as nearly 900 suppliers in 43 states