Defense News
05/20/12 Competition is heating up on the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle, with six proposals in play and little time left before contracting officials in Warren decide on development of the $5 billion-plus military program.
05/13/12 How much is public safety worth? An additional 9 mills of property taxes?
05/13/12 The John D. Dingell Veterans Administration Medical Center in Detroit is hiring 18 mental health professionals and two clerical staff as part of a nationwide effort to cut the time it takes to provide initial counseling services to veterans mostly returning home from wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
05/13/12 More people could turn out looking to compete for fewer opportunities at the Michigan Defense Industrial Base Expo in Warren this week, since the Michigan Homeland Security Consortium is piggybacking its first Homeland Security Acquisition Summit onto the event.
05/10/12 A markup to a 2013 defense bill that cleared the House Armed Services Committee early this morning would preserve planes and jobs targeted for elimination at Selfridge Air National Guard Base for at least one year.
05/07/12 Sterling Heights-based General Dynamics Land Systems and a Missouri defense contractor will divide $43.6 million in new contracts to design prototypes for oposed military bridge system — which could lead to more than $600 million in future production work.
05/04/12 Southeast Michigan defense contractors could get a lifeline in an upcoming lean period for new vehicles if the U.S. Army Tacom Life Cycle Management Command goes forward with a $3 billion plan to replace thousands of M113s.
04/10/12 Defense contractors in Southeast Michigan will receive much of a combined $57.3 million in three new contract awards from the U.S. Army — most of it ground-vehicle work to be completed before the end of this year.
04/04/12 The suburban Chicago private equity firm Wynnchurch Capital Ltd. is buying its second Detroit-area military-vehicle component supplier in two months, under a deal to acquire Farmington-based R. Cushman & Associates Inc.
04/04/12 Detroit-based Lakeshore TolTest Corp. was the winner among 11 bidders to build the new command center for the Afghan National Police, under a $54.3 million contract awarded through the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
03/28/12 Oshkosh Defense, a unit of Wisconsin-based Oshkosh Corp. with about 70 employees at a local technical center, has a new $294 million production order from the Warren-based U.S. Army Tacom Life Cycle Management Command for its medium truck and trailer fleets.
03/16/12 Detroit-based Walbridge Aldinger Co. was the winner among five proposals submitted for an $11.5 million work order from the U.S. Navy's Naval Facilities Engineering Command in Norfolk, Va. Walbridge will build a helicopter gearbox repair and test facility at the Marine Corps Air Station in Cherry Point, N.C.
03/11/12 Eliminating military planes and personnel based at Selfridge Air National Guard Base in 2013 could be one of the most visible blows yet to Southeast Michigan's struggling defense community in the past year.
03/09/12 The Detroit Arsenal in Warren is losing both of its top-ranking officials, with Director Grace Bochenek departing the U.S. Army Tank-Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center this week and Maj. Gen. Kurt Stein of the Tacom Life Cycle Management Command departing by early summer.
02/01/12 Chesterfield Township defense contractor Burtek Inc. is now Burtek Enterprises Inc. and belongs to the suburban Chicago private equity firm Wynnchurch Capital Partners LP, after a federal court judge on Tuesday approved the sale of its assets for $9 million.
01/25/12 Mayor Dave Bing and the chief of staff at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs announced today that Detroit will host the 2012 National Veteran Small Business Conference and Hiring Fair.
01/22/12 The Detroit Symphony Orchestra said is has raised over half of the amount sought in its 2011-12 campaign -- or $6.4 million of a $12 million goal -- during the first four months of its yearlong fundraising drive, which runs until Aug. 31. (See story on
01/22/12 A military vehicle contract managed in Warren is at the center of billionaire investor Carl Icahn's proxy fight to get his fellow shareholders to support a possible merger of Navistar International Corp. and Oshkosh Corp.
01/18/12 A military-vehicle contract managed in Warren is at the center of billionaire investor Carl Icahn's proxy fight to get his fellow shareholders to support a possible merger of Navistar International Corp. and Oshkosh Corp.
01/18/12 Troy-based BAE Systems Inc. has received a $313 million contract modification from the U.S. Army.
12/27/11 Up to $100 million worth of business could come to defense contractors with headquarters or divisions and operations based in Southeast Michigan, under a round of new contract awards announced by the U.S. Department of Defense.
12/20/11 Sterling Heights-based General Dynamics Land Systems will pay about $360 million to acquire competitor and occasional project collaborator Force Protection Inc. of Ladson, S.C.
12/18/11 Congress passed a 2012 defense bill last week that authorizes more than $6 billion toward programs that benefit Southeast Michigan defense contractors.
12/13/11 A U.S. Department of Defense budget authorization bill headed to the president's desk salvages some military vehicle programs for Southeast Michigan that were previously on the chopping block — if the president signs the legislation.
12/11/11 Chesterfield Township defense contractor Burtek Inc. will remain in business for as long as it takes to complete a sale and likely will continue to operate under new ownership, the court-appointed receiver managing its assets said last week.
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