Story by Adrienne Brown | Red River Army Depot | 11.21.2024
In a display of enduring collaboration, Red River Army Depot and BAE Systems celebrated two decades of partnering for the Soldier during a ceremony Nov. 20 at the depot....
Story by Hendrick Dickson | Mid-Atlantic Regional Maintenance Center (MARMC) | 06.23.2021
MARMC becomes the first regional maintenance center to use a new electronic record keeping program to track quality assurance records during maintenance availabilities....
Story by Kaitlin Kelly | Marine Corps Systems Command | 12.14.2018
Marine Corps Systems Command has awarded four Other Transaction Authorities to assess industry’s capability to produce a Next Generation Handheld Targeting System that is compact, rugged and lightweight. The use of OTAs were approved by Congress in 2016 as a procurement method to pay for prototypes and to use nontraditional defense companies to spur innovation....
Courtesy Story | U.S. Army Acquisition Support Center | 10.19.2018
Coordinated contractor testing can help accelerate the acquisition process and improve the quality of equipment and programs. Test and evaluation (T&E) is a perennial target of criticism for the time and cost it adds to acquisition programs. But there are ways to minimize this impact. One way is to use contractor-generated test data. As the acquisition community strives to “shift......
Story by Samuel King Jr. | 96th Test Wing | 04.02.2013
The 40th Flight Test Squadron completed another first in February when an A-10 Thunderbolt II fired a guided rocket that impacted only inches away from its intended target. The 2.75 diameter, 35-pound, laser-guided rocket is known as the fixed-wing Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System II. Before the Thunderbolt test, the rocket had proved effective in Afghanistan combat operations when......
