Our 20th annual assessment of DOD’s weapons acquisitions (which are on our High-Risk List) found that DOD is working to improve how fast it develops and delivers weapon systems. But many weapon programs continue to face delays—partly because DOD didn’t have the right information at key decision poin…

–Sig Sauer Inc., Newington, New Hampshire, was awarded a $157,300,000 firm-fixed-price contract for the production of .300 Norma Magnum M1163 ball ammunition and .338 NM armor piercing M1162 cartridges.
Bids were solicited via the internet with three received.
Work locations and funding will be…

EVENDALE, Ohio — GE Marine is under contract with Navantia to provide five LM2500 marine gas turbines that will power five new Spanish Navy F-110 frigates being built at its Ferrol Shipyard in Spain.

These multipurpose, anti-submarine frigates are being co-developed by the Spanish Ministry of …

MCAS MIRAMAR, Calif. — At approximately 1225 Pacific Standard Time an MV-22B Osprey belonging to 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing (MAW) crashed near Glamis, CA.

Five Marines were onboard the aircraft, and we are awaiting confirmation on the status of all members of the crew.

We ask for the public’s…

Rheinmetall and Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW) have established a joint venture in Lithuania for providing comprehensive logistical support for combat vehicles belonging to the Lithuanian armed forces as well as those of other NATO nations stationed in the Baltic States.

The idea is to take advanta…

CENTENNIAL, COLO — SEAKR Engineering, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Raytheon Technologies, announced a successful demonstration of optical inter-satellite links between two Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Mandrake 2 satellites. During the first test, more than 280 gigabits of data …