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U.S. Army Orders more Switchblade 300 Systems Our Bureau 425 Switchblade 300 Aerovironment said it won a U.S. Army contract to provide additional Switchblade 300 tactical missile systems. The $44.96 million contract is part of the Lethal Miniature Aerial Missile Systems (LMAMS) programme. It covers includes the first approved foreign military sales (FMS) export of Switchblade 300 to an undisclosed allied nation. It increases the total value of the contract to approximately $122.5 million, it ...

AeroVironment to provide more Switchblade 300 systems to US Army 21 Apr 2021 (Last Updated April 21st, 2021 15:29) Unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) provider AeroVironment has secured a contract to provide more Switchblade 300 tactical missile systems to the US Army. Share Article Switchblade 300 is a back-packable and rapidly deployable tactical missile system. Credit: AeroVironment, Inc. Unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) provider AeroVironment has s...

Message : Required fields Combat proven Switchblade 300 with patented “wave-off” feature and recommit ability provides operators with increased lethality, reach and precision strike capabilities with low collateral effects Contract option includes first approved export to an allied nation, extending Switchblade’s unique capabilities to friendly forces and promoting interoperability for joint operations AeroVironment, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVAV), a global leader in unmanned aircraft systems (UAS),...

US Army awards FLRAA demo and risk reduction contracts Primary tabs 1st April 2021 US Army contracts have been awarded to the two companies competing in the Future Long Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA) competition for Competitive Demonstration and Risk Reduction (CD&RR) Phase 2. The awards from US Army Contracting Command on March 30 comprised US$292.65m for Bell Textron and US$284.39m for Sikorsky. Bell is offering the V-280 Valor, while Sikorsky – in a joint bid with Boeing – is proposing ...

Sikorsky has been awarded a US$99.89m contract modification to produce and deliver 25 additional modified UH-60M Black Hawk utility helicopters to the Saudi Arabian National Guard

​North Carolina-based company to provide AI solutions for ‘tactical power, operations and advanced manufacturing technologies’.

OXFORD • Olin Winchester has been awarded a $37.14 million contract to provide ammunition for the U.S. Army.

 JAMA Network Open has published " Validation of a Machine Learning Brain Electrical Activity-Based Index to Aid in Diagnosing Concussion Among Athletes," a ground-breaking study on the accuracy of the BrainScope FDA-cleared biomarker, the Concussion Index, to indicate the likelihood and severity of concussive brain injury and to aid in evaluating an athletes readiness to return to play.   "What this shows us is that for the first time we have a point of care and objective marker that can rap...

Enthusiasm Growing at Pentagon for OTAs DEFENSE DEPARTMENT 2/4/2021 Army photo This is part four of a five-part special report on the health of the U.S. defense industrial base.  The National Defense Industrial Association’s second annual Vital Signs report on the health of the U.S. defense industrial base was released Feb. 2. To download a copy, please click HERE. The Pentagon is using special contracting mechanisms to try to promote innovation and bring...

A mail server vulnerability has publicly exposed more than a year’s worth of email logs, as well as highlighted security and infrastructure issues, faced by the administrators and maintainers of controversial websites such as 8kun. The logs, which were publicly visible before the vulnerability was patched last month, show thousands of email contacts made by 8kun administrators as well as by an address that appears to belong to 8kun owner Jim Watkins. While it is possible to see who is emailin...