3D Scanning Market Expected to Surpass $11B by 2020
The worldwide 3D scanning market will reach an estimated $11.1 billion value by 2020, according to a recent market research report. Indian research and consulting firm IndustryARC found that the 3D scanning market created $8.8 billion in revenue in 2015, and will improve at a 4.7 percent compound annual growth rate through 2020. The manufacturing…
Lockheed Martin Gets $116M Contract for Support of Standoff Missile Program
Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control has been awarded a $116.8 million modification to an Air Force contract for work benefiting the Joint-Air-to-Surface Standoff program, the U.S. Department of Defense announced in its Friday publication of military contracts. The Lockheed Martin subsidiary will conduct production, system upgrade, integration, sustainment, management, and logistics work for the…
Limited Range Bullet Could Reduce Collateral Damage
Three workers at the U.S. Army Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center have been awarded a patent for a proof-of-concept “Limited Range Projectile” that disassembles itself if it travels too far, thus reducing the chances of collateral damage. Several different concepts were developed for the bullet, though as the Army explained that each version follows…
Pentagon Announces Contract for Work on Electro-Optic Infrared Countermeasures
The U.S. Department of Defense announced a small number of labor contracts Wednesday, including a $10.6 million Navy contract given to Lockheed Martin Aculight for work on multispectral electro-optic infrared, or EO/IR, countermeasures, the U.S. Department of Defense announced in its Wednesday digest of labor contracts. The countermeasures benefit the “advanced threats function of the EO/IR…
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Navy to Award $55M Contract for Attack Helicopter Parts
Bell Helicopter is being given a $55.9 million Navy contract for parts and components used to manufacture 24 AH-1Z attack helicopters for the H-1 upgrade program, the U.S. Department of Defense announced in its Tuesday publication of military contracts. None of the funds being assigned at the time the advance acquisition contract is awarded will…
Army Contract Awarded for 2,000 Chemical Warfare Agent Detectors
Smiths Detection has been awarded a $17.2 million modification to an Army contract for 2,092 M4A1 Joint Chemical Agent Detectors, as well as more than 2,000 communication adapter kits and 10 platform interface kits, the U.S. Department of Defense said in its Monday publication of military contracts. The pocket-sized M4A1 Joint Chemical Agent Detector automatically…
Turkey to Receive Penetrator Bombs Under $683M U.S. Army Contract
General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems and Pennsylvania-based Ellwood National Forge were awarded a $682.9 million Army contract to deliver BLU-109 penetration bomb bodies and parts for Turkey, the U.S. Department of Defense announced Monday. “The 2,000 pound BLU-109 bomb was specifically designed to defeat an enemy’s most critical and hardened targets: secure command locations,…
Boeing, Lockheed Martin Drop Objection of Bomber Contract
Boeing and Lockheed Martin will no longer contest the Air Force contract given to Northrop Grumman for the construction of the military branch’s Long Range Strike-Bomber, according to a Friday statement from Boeing. The contract, valued at approximately $80 billion, tasks Northrop Grumman with building the bombers that will ultimately replace the Air Force’s B-1…
Hundreds of National Guard MM1151 Humvees to Undergo Change
AM General has been awarded a $23.1 million contract with options to modify several hundred of the Army National Guard’s Humvees, the U.S. Department of Defense announced in its Thursday publication of labor contracts. The company will convert up to 251 M1151 Humvees to M1167 Humvees under the-fixed-price contract. AM General was the only company…
Tim Cook Equates Phone Hacking Software to Cancer
Recent requests made by the FBI would force the “software equivalent of cancer” on Apple, CEO Tim Cook said Wednesday. His comments come during the ongoing legal battle over an iPhone used by Syed Farook, one of the individuals responsible for the San Bernardino, Calif. mass shooting Dec. 2. Cook said in an interview with…
Air Force Contract Awarded to Examine High Speed Weapons
Leidos has been granted a $13 million Air Force contract for research and development related to high speed weapons, the U.S. Department of Defense announced during its Wednesday publication of labor contracts. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract tasks Ledios with aiding technology research and development, modeling, simulation, and testing work intended to solve high speed weapons issues.…
Pentagon Announces $49M Contract to Improved Counter-IED System
SRC, a research and development company based in Syracuse, N.Y., has been awarded a $49.2 million Army contract to improve the capabilities of the company’s counter-IED device, the Duke system, the U.S. Department of Defense announced Tuesday. The U.S. military uses the vehicle-mounted Duke system to counteract Remote Controlled Improvised Explosive Device, or RCIED, threats,…
Raytheon Enters Bidding for U.S. Air Force Jet Trainer Deal
Raytheon announced Monday that it is teaming up with Italian aircraft manufacturer Finmeccanica and two other companies in an effort to win a multi-billion dollar U.S. Air Force contract for training jets. The winner of the Air Force’s Advanced Pilot Training competition will build 350 training planes in 2017 under a contract that has an…
DARPA Contracts Awarded to Help Protect Naval Vessels
The U.S. Department of Defense announced several military contracts on Friday, including two Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency contracts for the Multi Azimuth Defense Fast Intercept Round Engagement System program, or MAD-FIRES. The more lucrative of the two deals was a $17.2 million contract option given to Raytheon. The addition of the option brings the cumulative…
Lockheed Martin Wants to Make F-16 Jets for India
India wants to improve both its defense fleet and its manufacturing workforce, and Lockheed Martin thinks it has the necessary fix. In September, Lockheed Martin offered to build its F-16 fighter jet in India and then supply those aircraft to the nation, according to Phil Shaw, CEO of Lockheed’s Indian operations. Shaw, who made the…
$504M Army Contract to Aid Space and Missile Defense Command
The U.S. Department of Defense announced several military contracts Thursday, including a $504 million contract for work benefiting the Army’s Space and Missile Defense Command. The contract was awarded to six American small businesses: Colsa, CybEx LLC, Decisive Analytics, MEI Technologies, Sentar, and Torch Technologies, each of which will perform design, development, and other work…
Obama Honors Engineers, Scientists for Early-Career Research
President Barack Obama announced Thursday that 100 federal researchers, including six NASA researchers, are recipients of the 2016 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. PECEAE recipients are scientists and engineers working in the initial stages of their research careers. They’re tapped for the award, the highest honor given by the U.S. government to…
DoD Awards $92M Contract for Small Arms Protection Inserts for Vests
Ceradyne, a 3M-owned manufacturer of advanced ceramic systems and components has been awarded a $92.7 million Defense Logistics Agency contract to produce improved small arms protective inserts for the U.S. military, the U.S. Department of Defense announced Wednesday. The inserts are a form of ceramic trauma plate added to ballistic vests. The U.S. Army, Navy,…
Boeing to Improve Air Force Satellites
Boeing has been given a $54.9 million modification to an Air Force contract for an X-Band anti-jam improvement to the military branch’s satellite communications, the U.S. Department of Defense announced in its Tuesday publication of contracts. The improvement made will increase the Wideband Global SATCOM satellites’ ability to withstand unintentional and hostile electronic threats. More…
Boeing’s Protest of Northrop Grumman Bomber Deal Denied
A complaint Boeing and Lockheed Martin filed against a more than $80 billion bomber contract awarded to Northrop Grumman was rejected Tuesday by the U.S. Government Accountability Office. As reported by Reuters, GAO’s Managing Associate General Counsel for Procurement Law, Ralph White, said the protest didn’t have enough foundation to warrant it being sustained or…
DoD Awards $117M Contract to Supply U.S., Japan with MV-22 Engines
The U.S. Department of Defense announced two Navy contracts related to the MV-22 aircraft Tuesday, including a $117.7 million contract option given to Roll-Royce Corporation for 50 engines and related spares for the U.S. and Japanese militaries. The U.S. Marines will receive 38 of the AE1107C engines. Nearly $90 million of the contract purchases will…
Navy Mulling Electric Gun for Zumwalt-Class Destroyer
A U.S. Navy Admiral is so gung-ho about the military branch’s in-development electromagnetic railgun that he hopes to bypass creating a prototype and instead mount the gun on a destroyer ship that is set to hit the water in 2018. The Navy’s new Zumwalt-class destroyers are being constructed in Maine. The futuristic railgun is undergoing…
Navy’s New Joint Standoff Weapon Successful in First Operational Test
The U.S. Navy’s new Joint Standoff Weapon (JSOW) C-1 gliding, precision-guided missile was a hit in its first operational test shot, successfully destroying its target with a direct strike. Jointly held by the Navy and the weapon’s developer, Raytheon, the trial began with an F/A-18F Super Hornet fighter jet launching the JSOW at a height…