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Lockheed Martin Wins UK Trident II Missile Support Contract

April 2, 2016 @ 08:49 AM

Lockheed Martin has won a contract worth $21 million to provide the United Kingdom with engineering and technical support services and deliverable materials for the Trident II Missile System. “Lockheed Martin Space Systems Co
Boeing Wins $325 Million US Air Force JDAM Tail Kits Contract

April 1, 2016 @ 08:31 PM

Boeing has won a $325 million contract to deliver 15000 Lot 20 Joint Direct Attack Munitions (JDAM) tail kits to US Air Force. The delivery order also includes technical services task management, non-warranty support induction and evaluation, and system field support, the pentagon said in a statement Thursday
DARPA Awards Phase 1 Contract For Aircraft-Launched-UAV Program

April 1, 2016 @ 01:45 PM

The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded Phase 1 contracts for its Gremlins program, which seeks to develop technologies and systems enabling aircraft to launch volleys of low-cost, reusable unmanned air systems (UASs) and safely and reliably retrieve them in mid-air. Such systems, or “gremlins,” would be deployed with a mixture of mission payloads capable of generating a variety of effects in a distributed and coordinated manner, providing US forces with improved operational flexibility at a lower cost than is possible with conventional, monolithic platforms
Finmeccanica To Deliver Two AW159 Helicopters Worth 100 Mln Euros To Philippine

March 31, 2016 @ 08:17 PM

Finmeccanica has won a contract to provide two AgustaWestland AW 159 helicopters worth over 100 million euros to the Philippine Navy. The aircraft will be built and delivered from the Finmeccanica Helicopter Divisions Yeovil plant, in the United Kingdom, in 2018
Bureaucratic Headwinds Spook Shinmaywa US-2 Aircraft Procurement in India

March 30, 2016 @ 12:41 PM

The procurement of 12 amphibious Aircraft from Shinmaywa of Japan which has been held up due to bureaucratic procedures in India could face further headwinds following the release of new defence procurement procedures(DPP). The procurement proposal had gone up to the Defence Acquisition Council (DAC), India's supreme defence purchase body chaired by the defence minister, which delayed an expected go-ahead to the deal last year for reasons not disclosed
UK Air Force Tests Finmeccanica’s New-Gen Anti-Missile Countermeasure

March 30, 2016 @ 11:15 AM

The UK Royal Air Force (RAF) has successfully carried out its initial evaluation of Finmeccanicas BriteCloud decoy - a new-generation anti-missile countermeasure. The RAF purchased a number of decoys and has carried out trials against a range of simulated threats featuring real radar systems
Lockheed Martin Opens Test Site To Monitor Objects In Space

March 29, 2016 @ 05:11 PM

Lockheed Martin officially opened up a test site to monitor objects in space by a radar array for the US Air Force Space Fence at New Jersey. There is also a test site under construction in Kwajalein Island and will be used for early validation of hardware, firmware and software that will enable the Space Fence to detect, track, and catalog orbital objects more than 1
Russian Helicopters To Sign After-Sales Service Agreement For India’s Mi-17 Choppers

March 29, 2016 @ 07:15 AM

Russian Helicopters today announced that it is close to signing a long-term maintenance agreement with Indias Ministry of Defense to provide after-sales service for entire Indian fleet of Mi-17 helicopters. This long-term maintenance agreement will be for the entire life-cycle of the fleet and marks a shift from the earlier approach provision of after-sales support
Rostec Offers Mobile Fire Units For MANPADS

March 28, 2016 @ 04:27 PM

Rostec will showcase a new mobile fire control unit for MANPADS (man-portable air-Defense systems) at the ongoing DEFEXPO-2016 land and naval systems exhibition in Goa, India. "UIMC will present a mobile fire control unit for anti-aircraft Defense system at the DefExpo 2016," the press service said in a statement
Rockwell Collins To Provide Common Avionics Architecture System For India’s Chinook Helicopters...

March 28, 2016 @ 03:12 PM

Boeing has awarded Rockwell Collins a contract to provide its Common Avionics Architecture System (CAAS) for 15 CH-47F Chinook helicopters for the Indian Ministry of Defence. “We have a successful track record of integrating CAAS on Chinook helicopters that will ensure that the Indian Defence Ministry will receive on-time, on-budget, advanced avionics,” said Troy Brunk, vice president and general manager of Airborne Solutions for Rockwell Collins

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