Force Protection was awarded a contract by the USMC to support MRAP vehicles. See the press release here. The contract is worth over $40 M and will last over a year. Force Protection had recently had some issues winning MRAP contracts, and this win will be welcome. For more see this [...]

The US Army awarded Konsberg a contract to provide Crew Remotely Operated Weapon System (CROWS) II turrets. See an article here. Konsberg is a Norwegian company that is involved in the oil industry, commercial shipping and defense. There website is here. The contract is worth $117 M and will provide [...]

AeroVironment won follow-on work from DARPA to continue development of a micro UAV. See the story here. The goal is to make an aircraft that mimics flying insects. The contract is for a Nano Air Vehicle. AeroVironment had won the Phase I of the project and this will continue into Phase [...]

Orbital won a contract to provide engineering and analytical services to all three US armed services at White Sands Missile Range (WSMR). They are also part of a team supporting efforts at Wallops Range in Virginia which is used a great deal by NASA. See the story here. The contract, called Theoretical [...]

The US Army awarded Navistar a contract for 7,000 odd trucks for the Afghan and Iraqi governments. The value of the contract is over $1B. See the press release here. This is on top of a previous award for vehicles and support for the US Army. Navistar is also bidding as [...]

In an action related to previous posts, here and here, it seems that some of the Force Protection shareholders are suing the company and management. The press release is here. Congress has recently made it harder to win these kind of lawsuits as it was felt they had been abused in the past. [...]

Force Protection announced that they had been awarded a contract to deliver 157 MRAP to the UK armed forces. See the press release here. Force Protection had been struggling as they won very little of the last US contract for MRAP vehicles. This contract will certainly tide them over for several months [...]

The USMC awarded BAE a contract worth $715 M to build two versions of MRAPs for the Corps. See the press release here. BAE is moving to seize a large part of the MRAP business from the various US services. For the struggles of Force Protection lately see this past post. The [...]