Defense Market

General Dynamics Electric Boat has been awarded a $118 million contract modification by the U.S. Navy to continue concept studies, engineering and design of a Common Missile Compartment for the United Kingdom’s Successor ballistic-missile submarine and the U.S. Ohio replacement submarine. Electric Boat is a wholly owned subsidiary of General Dynamics (GD).
The award modifies a [...]

CACI International Inc signed an agreement to acquire SystemWare, Inc. SystemWare designs, manufactures, and provides state-of-the-art signals acquisition and analysis systems that enable users to monitor and detect cybersecurity and physical security vulnerabilities and enhance operational security. Founded in 1988, SystemWare is headquartered in Camarillo, California, near CACI’s Oxnard facility, with East Coast operations directed [...]

In late 2009, BAE Systems partnered with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to complete the first test flight of the Coyote unmanned aircraft system. The Coyote deployed, as designed, from a 3-foot-long sonobuoy dropped from a P-3 aircraft. The test marked a significant milestone in the development of the system for military uses and [...]

Deloitte’s latest Aerospace and Defense (A&D) industry outlook report finds that, by comparison to 2008, 2009 was both uneven and not nearly as good a year.
According to the Deloitte report, merger and acquisition activity in the A&D sector in 2010 will likely accelerate. Consolidation among suppliers will result in benefits as they gain [...]

In-flight photo of AOptix R3.1 “Skyball” air node terminal for secure long distance gigabit-per-second optical data transmissions. Inertially stabilized gimbal mounted to a P68 “Observer” aircraft.

AOptix Technologies, Inc., a developer of ultra-high bandwidth laser communication solutions, and NuCrypt, a developer of technology for ultra-high security over optical communication networks, announced completion of a first-of-its-kind quantum [...]

The US administration’s Quadrennial Defense Review, the main statement of U.S. military doctrine, is to be released on Feb. 1. The Review projects that overall defense spending would be as shown in the diagram.

The UAVs used for combat, reconnaissance and surveillance missions in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan are a marked as top priority in [...]

For the 2010 fiscal year, the president’s base budget of the Department of Defense rose to $533.8 billion. Adding spending on “overseas contingency operations” brings the sum to $663.8 billion. When the budget was signed into law on October 28, 2009 the final size of the Department of Defense’s budget was $680 billion, $16 billion [...]