Abu Dhabi is set to host a record-breaking IDEX edition when the show’s 10th anniversary takes place 20 – 24 February 2011 at the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre under the patronage of HH Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the UAE. Addressing the official pre-event press conference in the UAE capital today, His Excellency Major General Obaid Al Ketbi, Head of Committees & Spokesman for IDEX 2011 said: “For the first time since IDEX’s inception in 1993, exhibitor numbers have gone past the 1000-mark recording 18
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Poway, Calif., was awarded a $148,255,502 contract which will procure 24 MQ-9 Reaper production aircraft
The Helicopter Academy to Train by Simulation of Flying (HATSOFF), the joint venture owned equally by Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) and CAE, today announced that its simulator cockpit for the civil/conventional variant of the Dhruv has arrived at the HATSOFF training centre in Bangalore following design and manufacture at CAE's facility in Montreal, Canada. The Dhruv simulator cockpit will now be installed and integrated with the CAE-built full-mission simulator currently in operation at HATSOFF
Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems, Andover, Mass., was awarded on Jan
Thales Canada announced that it has been awarded the Tactical Control Radar contract by the Department of National Defence. Thales will supply and integrate two Ground Master 400 (GM 400) radars deployable with a suite of communications and operator control systems
The Boeing Co., Seattle, Wash
Reston, Va.is being awarded an $852,071,893 cost-plus-incentive-fee, fixed-price-incentive (firm target), firm-fixed-price, cost-plus-fixed-fee multiple award contract for the successful installation and operational certification of Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) systems by the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Centers for PEO (C4I & Space), Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command, and other prospective U
More than 80 major exhibitors have confirmed their attendance at the inaugural NAVDEX (Naval Defence Exhibition), which will be held in parallel with IDEX, the region’s leading defence and security show, at the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre from 20th – 24th February 2011, under the patronage of of His Highness Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the UAE. Visitors to NAVDEX can expect to see the latest in naval defence technology with exhibits of warships, naval workboats and amphibious crafts, combat equipment, coastal security systems and sea-to-shore communication solutions
General Dynamics SATCOM Technologies received a $40.7 million contract from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to build two additional 34-meter (112-foot wide) beam waveguide antennas as part of NASA's modernization and transformation plan to continue scientific studies of the Earth as well as explore distant bodies in the solar system
Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation, Integrated System Sector of San Diego, Calif. was awarded a $45,996,375 contract modification for the advance procurement long lead items associated with two (2) Block 30 and two (2) Block 40 Global Hawk Air Vehicles, two (2) in-line Airborne Signals Intelligence Payloads, two (2) Multi-Platform RADAR Technology Insertion Program Sensors, two (2) in-line EISS Sensors and other items and activities required to protect the production schedule for Lot 10