1 Firm, Three Joint Ventures Win Spots on $95M Army Rapid Disaster Response Contract

Griffon Aerospace and a Textron (NYSE: TXT) business will further develop their unmanned vertical takeoff and landing system offerings after the U.S. Army exercised the third and fourth options in its other transaction agreements with the two vendors, DVIDS reported Thursday. Textron Systems and Griffon Aerospace will perform flight demonstrations and modular open systems approach

Like many government agencies, the Department of Homeland Security’s U.S. Customs and Border Protection manages petabytes of data flowing through it every day. They perform an estimated 50 billion data exchanges and 10 billion transactions daily. This also means there are roughly 100 million cyber attack attempts per day on their network, according to CBP

General Atomics’ aeronautical systems business unit has secured a $52.9 million contract to help the U.S. Army sustain its fleet of MQ-1C Gray Eagle unmanned aircraft systems. Under the five-year contract, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems will perform sustainment and logistics support for Gray Eagle at its facility in Poway, California, the Department of Defense said