A new Congressional Budget Office estimate puts the Trump-class battleship program’s price tag well above initial expectations — and warns that America’s shipbuilding industrial base may not be able to deliver it on schedule regardless of cost.Continue Reading
A roundup of every new tender, RFI, and RFP that opened this week across India, the UK, the US, Ukraine/NATO, New Zealand, and Italy — from a $1.9 billion Indian Army drone drive to a US Air Force VTOL bomber concept.Continue Reading
Thales has won a contract from Naval Group to test a passive hull-mounted sonar designed for autonomous operation. The contract is part of a project led by the French defence procurement agency (DGA) to develop an unmanned combat underwater vehicle demonstrator for testing purposes. The passive omnidirectional hull-mounted sonar toContinue Reading
Raytheon, an RTX (NYSE: RTX) business, was awarded a $677 million contract to continue producing AN/SPY-6(V) radars for the U.S. Navy. This is the third option exercised from the March 2022 hardware, production, and sustainment contract, which is valued up to $3 billion over five years. Under this contract, the U.S. Navy will receiveContinue Reading
Steadicopter, a leader in the Rotary Unmanned Aerial Systems (RUAS) industry, to present, for the first time in the US a comprehensive sensor-to-shooter solution capabilities based on its RUAV platforms: the Golden Eagle with precise strike capabilities and the Black Eagle family for accurate ISR operations. Based on the combat-provenContinue Reading