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Raytheon’s Air & Missile Defense Radar Prepares for Live Target Testing
2016-07-11 Read More...
Raytheon Company delivered the first AN/SPY-6(V) Air and Missile Defense Radar array to the U.S. Navy's Pacific Missile Range Facility in Hawaii ahead of

CAE Wins New Defense Contracts
2016-07-11 Read More...
CAE announced that it has won defense contracts valued at more than C$100 million to provide a range of simulation products and training support services for global military

Typhoon With P3E Weapons Fit to Fly at Farnborough 2016
2016-07-08 Read More...
A BAE Systems Eurofighter Typhoon aircraft featuring the latest weapons fit will display at the 2016 Royal International Air Tattoo (RIAT) and Farnborough International Air

DCI Inaugurates Int’l Academic & Aeronautical Training Center
2016-07-08 Read More...
Air Commodore Francis Pollet, commanding officer of the French Air Force Academy and Air Base 701, and Jean-Michel Palagos, Chairman and CEO of Défense Conseil International (DCI), have inaugurated the UAV Centre of Excellence (CED) and DCI’s

Boeing to Celebrate 100th Anniversary at Farnborough Airshow
2016-07-05 Read More...
Boeing will celebrate its 100th anniversary at the Farnborough International Airshow (11-17 July 2016), displaying advanced commercial and defense platforms, and presenting a unique exhibit to commemorate its first century and look ahead to the

Boeing Opens Collaborative Autonomous Systems Laboratory in Missouri
2016-07-04 Read More...
Boeing opened a new research laboratory to test hardware and software that will make a new generation of autonomous air, sea and land vehicles work together more effectively as a team or

Cubic Increases Joint Training Effectiveness
2016-07-01 Read More...
Cubic Global Defense (CGD), a business unit of Cubic Corporation, announced the successful integration of its Air Combat Maneuvering Instrumentation (ACMI) system onboard the Canadian Air Force F-18 aircraft, to the Cubic Canadian Weapon Effect

FLIR Acquires Armasight, Inc. for $41 Million
2016-07-01 Read More...
FLIR Systems, Inc. announced that it has acquired Armasight, Inc., a leading developer of precision sporting, hunting, and military optics products, for approximately $41 million in

Lockheed Martin’s Q-53 Radar Demos Counter-UAS Capability
2016-06-29 Read More...
The Lockheed Martin AN/TPQ-53 counter-fire radar recently demonstrated its ability to identify and track unmanned aerial systems and pass that information to a command and control node, a key capability as the battlespace rapidly becomes more

Orbital ATK Completes Expansion of Northridge Facility
2016-06-29 Read More...
Orbital ATK, Inc., a global leader in aerospace and defense technologies, announced the completion of the expansion of its Northridge, California, facility, integrating engineering and production of the AAR-47 Missile Warning System and Common

Harris Wins $1.7 Billion Tactical Communication Contract
2016-06-27 Read More...
Harris Corporation has received a five-year, $1.7 billion ceiling, single-award follow-on IDIQ contract from the U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command (CECOM) to supply secure tactical communication solutions.

OSI Systems to Acquire American Science and Engineering
2016-06-24 Read More...
OSI Systems, Inc. announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire American Science and Engineering, Inc. (AS&E), a leading provider of detection solutions for advanced cargo, parcel, and personnel inspection, for $37.00 per share in cash,

Smiths Detection Wins Order for Handheld Radioisotope Identifiers
2016-06-24 Read More...
Smiths Detection Inc. (SDI) announced a new task order award of $40.9 million for its RadSeeker handheld radioisotope detector and identifier under its single award indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract with the DHS Domestic

Lockheed Martin Breaks Ground on Hercules Training Center
2016-06-23 Read More...
Lockheed Martin celebrated the groundbreaking of the Hercules Training Center (HTC), a facility slated to open at the Lockheed Martin Aeronautics site here in 2018. The HTC will train the next generation of air mobility pilots and crews for the

Roketsan, Airbus Helicopters to Reinforce Industrial Cooperation
2016-06-20 Read More...
Roketsan Missiles Industries Inc. of Turkey and Airbus Helicopters, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to execute a program to integrate 2,75” Laser Guided Missile (CİRİT) to H135M and H145M

L-3 to Provide Contractor Logistics Support for USAF’s KC-10
2016-06-13 Read More...
L-3 Communications announced that its Vertex Aerospace division was awarded a contract from the U.S. Air Force (USAF) to provide full contractor logistics support (CLS) for the KC-10 aircraft. The total approximate value of this

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