Contracts

DRS Technologies Awarded $30 Million Contract To Provide Electronic Manufacturing Services For U.S. Army Bradley Fighting Vehicles

Parsippany, NJ -- DRS Technologies, Inc. announced today that it has been awarded a $30 million contract to manufacture cable sets for the U.S. Army’s A3 Bradley Combat Systems. The Bradley is among the most formidable ground force capabilities in U.S. Army inventory and continues to be an integral part of military operations in Iraq.

Defence Industry

Teledyne Brown Develops First Armored Multi-Purpose Troop Carrier System Protects Against Most Fragments from Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs)

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. -- Teledyne Brown Engineering, Inc. has developed, built and tested an armored troop carrier system, the Multipurpose Troop Transport Carrier System (MTTCS), which is designed to protect soldiers from small arms fire and most fragments from Improvised Explosive Devises (IEDs).

Future Technologies

BAE Systems Fires Multiple Round Simultaneous Impact Missions From NLOS-Cannon

BAE Systems has successfully fired a four-round Multiple Round Simultaneous Impact (MRSI) mission from the Non-Line-of-Sight Cannon (NLOS-C) Concept Technology Demonstrator (CTD). The NLOS-C is one of eight Manned Ground Vehicles in the U.S. Army’s Future Combat Systems program, and leads the others in its current state of development. The firing achievement was reached in late August 2005 at Yuma Proving Ground, Arizona.

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Volkswagen and the Stanford Racing Team Win DARPA Grand Challenge

PRIMM, Nev. -- With the technological support of the Volkswagen Electronics Research Laboratory (ERL), Stanford University`s robotic Volkswagen Touareg, known as Stanley, has won the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge, run in the Mojave desert near Primm, Nevada.

Contracts

DRS Technologies Receives $15 Million Contract To Provide Missile Launch System For U.S. Army Combat Vehicles

Parsippany, NJ, -- DRS Technologies, Inc. announced today that it has been awarded a new contract to provide the missile launch system on the Tube-launched, Optically-tracked, Wire-guided (TOW) Weapons System for the U.S. Army’s M2A3 Bradley vehicle program. The Bradley is among the most formidable ground force capabilities in U.S. Army inventory and continues to be an integral part of the military’s operations in Iraq.

Defence Industry

Gavial, a new tactical vehicle for the Bundeswehr: Rheinmetall and Panhard/Auverland enter cooperation agreement

Rheinmetall and Panhard/Auverland have agreed to work together in the field of wheeled, 5 ton-class armoured vehicles for the German market.

Future Technologies

Rheinmetall takes part in FCS unmanned aerial vehicle contract

In cooperation with Teledyne Brown Engineering, Inc, Rheinmetall Defence Electronics, Bremen, awarded a contract for phase one of the FCS Class III Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) development.

Future Technologies

iRobot and Boston Univ. Photonics Center Unveil Advanced Sniper Detection System for iRobot PackBot

BURLINGTON, Mass. and BOSTON - Oct. 3, 2005 - iRobot Corp. and The Photonics Center at Boston University introduced a tactical sensory system payload prototype, dubbed REDOWL, for the combat-proven iRobot PackBot robot. REDOWL, or Robot Enhanced Detection Outpost with Lasers, can detect and locate snipers and mortars on the very first shot fired at personnel or vehicles.

Robots

BAE Systems Displays Armed Robotic Demonstrator At AUSA

ARLINGTON, Va. -- BAE Systems is displaying an Armed Robotic Demonstrator at the Association of the U.S. Army’s 2005 Annual Meeting and Exposition this week in Washington to illustrate the synergy between current and future forces.

Defence Industry

BAE Systems Signs Co-operation Agreement With Turkish Defence Company For Wheeled Armoured Vehicles

BAE Systems Land Systems OMC has announced an agreement with Turkish private sector defence company FNSS Savunma Sistemleri A.S. (FNSS) for the joint marketing and supply of wheeled armoured vehicles to the Turkish Armed Forces.

Contracts

BAE Systems Awarded $11 Million Contract To Reset Bradley Vehicles

BAE Systems has been awarded an $11 million contract by U.S. Army Tank-automotive and Armaments Command for reset and modification for 15 M7 Bradley Fire Support Team (BFIST) Vehicles and one M2A3 Bradley Vehicle, and to add 131 Vehicle Intercom System (VIS) Kits for the Bradley 3rd CAV Operation Desert Storm vehicles.

Contracts

Oshkosh Truck's Unmanned Vehicle Qualifies for Pentagon's $2 Million Desert Race Team; TerraMax(TM) One of 20 teams to Compete in DARPA Grand Challenge

OSHKOSH, Wis. --Oshkosh Truck Corporation and partners Rockwell Collins and the University of Parma, Italy, announced that their robotic truck, TerraMax(TM), qualified late yesterday to compete in the $2 million DARPA Grand Challenge, a 150-mile race of unmanned vehicles across the Mojave Desert on Saturday, Oct. 8. TerraMax successfully completed all four scheduled runs of 2.2- and 2.9-mile qualifying obstacle courses at the California Speedway in Fontana, Calif.

Defence Industry

U.S. Increases Order for Combat-Tested Javelin

TUCSON, Ariz. -- On the heels of a $119 million contract from the U.S. Army in May, the Raytheon-Lockheed Martin Javelin Joint Venture (JV) received a $110 million modification to a firm-fixed-price contract for Javelin Anti-tank Weapon System production.

Contracts

U.S. Marine Corps Awards General Dynamics $19 Million for Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle Long-Lead Materials

STERLING HEIGHTS, Mich. - The U.S. Marine Corps Systems Command, Quantico, Va., has awarded General Dynamics Land Systems, a business unit of General Dynamics, a $19 million contract for the advanced procurement of long-lead material (LLM) for the Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle (EFV) Low Rate Initial Production (LRIP) Lot 1.

Defence Industry

General Dynamics Selected as Preferred Prime System Integrator for Phase 1 of AUS$800 Million Australian Battlespace Communications Systems Project

OTTAWA -- General Dynamics Canada, along with its Australian partners ADI Limited and Tenix Defence, has been selected by the Commonwealth of Australia as the Preferred Prime System Integrator for the first phase of the Battlespace Communications System (Land) project, referred to as JP 2072 valued at AUS$97 (US$74) million.