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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

Oshkosh Promotes John Bryant to President of Defense Segment
2016-06-08 Read More...
Oshkosh Corporation announces the promotion of John Bryant to President of Oshkosh Defense, LLC and Senior Vice President of Oshkosh Corporation, effective

Rockwell Collins Delivers 1,400 Remote Secure Receivers (RSR) to US Air Force
2016-06-08 Read More...
Rockwell Collins has delivered 1,400 Remote Secure Receivers as part of a follow-on order from the Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC) and Air Combat Command (ACC). To date a total of 1,800 RSR’s have been delivered for AFSOC and

DuPont Expands Research on Tensylon® Armor Solutions
2016-06-08 Read More...
DuPont Protection Solutions (DuPont) announced an extension and expansion of research currently under contract to the U.S. Army Program Executive Office - Soldier Protection and Individual Equipment Project to develop next generation DuPont™

Raytheon Awarded $365 Million US Navy Contract
2016-06-07 Read More...
Raytheon Company has been awarded a $365,848,801 fixed-price-incentive, cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for the production of Aegis Weapon System AN/SPY-1D (V) Radar Transmitter Group, Missile Fire Control System MK 99 equipment, and associated

Mack Defense, JWF Industries Partner for Lakota 6x6 Vehicle System Assembly
2016-06-07 Read More...
Mack Defense announced a partnership with JWF Defense Systems, LLC, a wholly-owned division of JWF Industries, Inc. of Johnstown, Pennsylvania for the assembly of the Mack Defense lakota 6x6 vehicle

Lockheed Martin Flies First T-50A Upgraded Aircraft
2016-06-06 Read More...
Lockheed Martin successfully completed the initial flight test of its T-50A configured aircraft. The T-50A is the company’s aircraft offering in the U.S. Air Force's Advanced Pilot Training

Lockheed Martin Wins Contract for Pilot Survivability Training
2016-06-03 Read More...
Lockheed Martin has been awarded a 5-year, single award indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract with a ceiling value of $424 million by the U.S. Naval Air Warfare Center - Weapons Division to support the Aircrew Electronic Warfare

Boeing, US Air Force Adjust KC-46 Tanker Schedule
2016-06-01 Read More...
As detailed in its statement released earlier this week, the U.S. Air Force (USAF) is moving its formal production decision on the KC-46 tanker program - known as Milestone C - from June 2016 to August 2016 to allow additional time to implement the

Thales, Seaspan’s Vancouver Shipyards Sign OFSV Contract
2016-05-31 Read More...
On March 24th, Thales in Canada signed a $35M (CAD) contract with Seaspan’s Vancouver Shipyards (VSY), regarding the electronic systems for the construction of the Canadian Coast Guard’s (CCG) three Offshore Fisheries Science Vessels (OFSV) under

Schiebel Celebrates 10th Anniversary of CAMCOPTER® S-100
2016-05-30 Read More...
Ten years after the first delivery of CAMCOPTER® S-100 to the launch customer, the Vienna-based Schiebel company proudly celebrates the anniversary of its world class

Standard Missile-3 Flight Test Validates Engineering Upgrade
2016-05-30 Read More...
Raytheon Company and the Missile Defense Agency completed a successful flight test of an improved Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) Block IB third stage rocket

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