On December 5, 2022, the U.S. Army announced the awarding of its Future Long Range Assault Aircraft contract to Bell Textron, Incorporated. Bell Textron’s submission, the V-280 Valor, is a…
The Barrett Firearms Company has become synonymous with its iconic M82/M107 .50-caliber rifle. When U.S. Special Operations Command announced the Precision Sniper Rifle program, Barrett submitted its bolt-action Multi-Role Adaptive…
A bunch of data crunchers at CareerCast have released their list of the Worst Jobs of 2017 and enlisted military service member was ranked number 4,
Following a rigorous 27-month prototype evaluation phase, the Army’s Next Generation Squad Weapon competition has come to a close with the Army announcing SIG Sauer as the contract winner on…
In 2017, the Army announced SIG Sauer as the winner of the XM17/XM18 Modular Handgun System competition. The other branches also adopted the M17/M18 and SIG became the supplier of…
Boeing Co. will make the wings on the remaining A-10 Thunderbolt II attack aircraft that are slated to receive an upgrade, the Defense Department announced August 2019.
The company on Aug. 21, 2019, received an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-q…
NASA has selected a space-based instrument under its Earth Venture Instrument (EVI) portfolio that will make observations of coastal waters to help protect ecosystem sustainability, improve resource management, and enhance economic activity.
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ERAPSCO, a joint venture between US company Sparton Corp. and a subsidiary of British firm Ultra Electronics, was awarded a US defense contract worth $1.041 billion on July 18, 2019, to produce sonobuoys used in anti-submarine warfare.
“Sonob…
A group of Microsoft employees are demanding that the company’s leadership abandon a contract with the US Army that they say makes them into “war profiteers” — a contract that relates to Microsoft’s HoloLens augmented-reality technology.