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Rockwell Collins has been awarded an Interim Contractor Support (ICS) contract by the Common Range Integrated Instrumentation System (CRIIS) Program Office at Eglin Air Force Base that includes field support, repair, and security maintenance of the currently fielded CRIIS program for Air Force, Navy, and Army test ranges. |
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Kratos Defense & Security Solutions' Unmanned Systems Division (USD) has been awarded an amendment to a previously awarded contract to exercise an option for Low Rate Initial Production Year 1 (LRIP 1) from the U.S. Navy for BQM-177A Subsonic Aerial Target (SSAT) drone systems. |
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Kaman Aerospace Corporation (Kaman), a subsidiary of Kaman Corp., and Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company, officials entered into a multi-year (MY) agreement to continue manufacturing H-60 cockpits. It outlines the pricing and conditions for the cockpits under the Department of Defense MY IX H-60 procurement authorization. |
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A contingent of F-22 Raptor fighter jets from Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida, have joined combat air forces from across the nation at Nellis AFB for the joint, full-spectrum readiness exercise Red Flag 17-3. |
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U.S Air Force officials selected Calspan for a five-year contract worth an estimated $20 million. |
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The U.S. Navy's Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command awarded Data Link Solutions (DLS) -- a joint venture between BAE Systems and Rockwell Collins -- a $47.5 million contract to provide Multifunctional Information Distribution System Joint Tactical Radio Systems (MIDS JTRS) to U.S. forces and allied partners. |
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Boeing and FedEx Express -- a subsidiary of FedEx Corp. -- are slated to work together to fly the next ecoDemonstrator aircraft; the ecoDemonstrator program serves as a series of flying testbeds designed to improve the environmental performance and safety of future airplanes. |
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Lockheed Martin has won two contract modifications worth approximately $73.9 million (combined) from the U.S. Navy to provide materials and services to support the low-rate initial production (LRIP) of F-35 Lightning II combat aircraft. |
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Sikorsky Aircraft has signed a five-year contract with the U.S. government to deliver 257 H-60 Black Hawk helicopters to the U.S. Army and Foreign Military Sales (FMS) customers. |
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Mercury Systems, Inc. announced that it has acquired Richland Technologies LLC (RTL), a company based in Duluth, Georgia that specializes in safety-critical and high-integrity systems, software, and hardware development plus safety-certification services for mission-critical applications. RTL also offers safety-certifiable embedded graphics software for military and commercial aerospace applications. |
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Funding slated for major aircraft and related systems totals $49.9 billion under the Department of Defense (DoD) Fiscal Year (FY) 2018 acquisition funding request an increase of $4.6 billion from the FY 2017 request. |
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We're often approached by companies who have designed a prototype system composed of networks sensors, cameras, GPS systems, and other elements with compute platforms over Ethernet. These prototypes often use commercial-grade Ethernet switches. Sometimes they use the enclosure, sometimes they pull the components out of the enclosure and try to jerry-rig the switch components in some sort of fashion. |
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Providing depot level maintenance for more than 500 U.S. Air Force aircraft operating worldwide is a mammoth operation, spearheaded by Tinker Air For Base just outside Oklahoma City. |
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Aircraft sensors and onboard equipment gather large amounts of data. In addition to data storeable in a database, 'big data' includes volumes of unstructured data like engineering drawings, simulation files, engine telemetry, and old maintenance write-ups. |
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As airline competition rises, the pressure is on to cut costs – hence the growing interest in alternatives to new parts, such as used serviceable material (USM). |
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Aviation Electronics Europe (AEE) officials issued a call for papers for the annual AEE conference held in Europe on June 19 and 20, 2018. The deadline to submit abstracts for consideration is November 10, 2017. |
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