WASHINGTON --- Air Force and Navy officials here signed a memo Sept. 16 identifying a new process for allocating F-35 Lightning II depot repair workloads
Jean-Yves Le Gall, Chairman and CEO of Arianespace, and Anatoly Perminov, General Director of the Russian space agency Roskosmos, signed a contract on Saturday, September 20, for the acquisition of ten Soyuz launch vehicles.>> The contract was signed in Sochi during a French-Russian governmental seminar, attended by both the French and Russian prime ministers
PARSIPPANY, NJ --- DRS Technologies, Inc. announced today that it received a $42 million order to build more than 670 additional M989A1 Heavy Expanded Mobility Ammunition Trailers (HEMATs)
South Africa’s Denel Dynamics has unveiled its latest UAV at Africa Aerospace and Defence 2008. The latest iteration of the Seeker family, the Seeker 400, updates the company’s UAV capabilities and is some 30 percent larger than the existing Seeker II
The Kinetic Energy Interceptors team led by Northrop Grumman Corporation successfully completed structural integrity and hydro-proof tests of composite cases planned for use on the high-pressure Stage 1 and 2 solid rocket motors. The testing took place during a three-month period ending in July
The advanced Aerial Refueling Boom System (ARBS) for Northrop Grumman Corporation's KC-45 Tanker has performed multiple aerial contacts with an operational Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) aircraft, confirming its ability to support large aircraft in U.S
The Air Force is modifying a fixed price incentive firm contract not to exceed $324,600,000 with Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation, Integrated Systems Air Combat Systems of San Diego, Calif.>> This contract will provide 2 RQ-4B Block 301 Global Hawk air vehicles, 3 RQ-4B Block 40 air vehicles with MP-RTIP sensor, 1 mission element, 1 launch and recovery element, and associated equipment; option for 4 EISS sensor payloads
The French defence procurement agency (DGA) has ordered 35 additional DRAC mini-UAV close-range reconnaissance systems for the French Armed Forces from EADS Defence & Security (DS).The new orders were notified on 30 June, after delivering 25 Drac systems to DGA
>Boeing has teamed with SkyHook International to develop the JHL-40 heavy lift airship for commercial missions. (Boeing artwork)ST
MINNEAPOLIS --- Alliant Techsystems was awarded a Sounding Rocket Program Three (SRP-3) contract with potential value of $250 million from the U.S