Currently browsing entries tagged missions
July 27, 2008 @ 6:26 am
· Filed under Congress, Federal Budget Process, General Dynamics, Maine, Massachusetts, Northrop Grumman Corp., Restructuring, U.S. Navy, development program, production program
Recently the US Navy announced that it was not going to continue the DDG-100 program. Two ships are under construction by Northrop-Grumman and General Dynamics. Not unexpectedly the Senators from the affected states, mainly Massachusetts and Maine, have protested. See an article here. The major recent the Navy cites is the [...]
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Tagged with: combat system, ddg 100, ddg 1000, ddg 51, estimates, General Dynamics, grumman, Maine, Massachusetts, missions, new hull design, northrop grumman, Northrop Grumman Corp., Raytheon, senators, sensors, shipbuilders, two ships, U.S. Navy, whole sale
May 30, 2008 @ 2:25 pm
· Filed under Bell, Boeing, Contract Awards, Military Aviation, U.S. Navy, development program, logistics, production program
The Navy ordered from the Boeing-Bell team manufacturing the V-22 Osprey training devices and related equipment today. The contract is worth about $78 M. See a story here. The Osprey has just finished a successful deployment in Iraq where it carried out heavy lift missions, usually for logistics purposes. The contract [...]
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Tagged with: Boeing, deployment, heavy lift, Iraq, logistics, missions, osprey, related equipment, U.S. Navy
April 21, 2008 @ 5:02 pm
· Filed under Boeing, Contract Awards, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman Corp., U.S. Navy, development program
According to this article the Navy had a successful DAB for the Broad Area Maritime Surveillance (BAMS) program. The system was approved to go into System Design and Development (SDD) phase and a prime contractor will be chosen to perform that work. Once that phase is completed then Low Rate Initial Production (LRIP) [...]
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Tagged with: dab, initial production, maritime surveillance, missions, orion, prime contractor, U.S. Navy, unmanned surveillance aircraft
March 29, 2008 @ 5:04 am
· Filed under Boeing, Contract Awards, Military Aviation, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Navy, production program
The US Air Force and Navy gave Boeing and its team a contract for another 167 V-22 aircraft. See the story here. The contract is worth over $10 B and will also provide necessary support services. The V-22 is deployed to Iraq and conducting heavy lift cargo and personnel transport missions.
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Tagged with: Boeing, heavy lift, Iraq, missions, necessary support services, personnel transport, U.S. Navy, us air force, V-22
