BOEING has $22.6m U.S. Navy contract for redesign of Data Bus Interface Unit and the Deployable Flight Incident Recorder of the Deployable Flight Incident Recording Set (DFIRS) for F/A-18 A-F and EA-18G aircraft for the Navy and Australia; and $9.5m U.S. Navy contract to incorporate Tactical Targeting Network Technology (TTNT) into U.S. Navy F/A-18E/Fs and EA-18Gs.
Quantitech Inc., Huntsville, Alabama, was awarded a $15,240,466 modification (000012) to domestic and foreign military sales (Mexico, Australia, Austria, Brazil, Afghanistan, Bahrain, Columbia, Sweden, Tunisia, Japan, Israel, Thailand, Taiwan, Slovakia, United Arab Emirates, and Saudi Arabia) contract W31P4Q-16-A-0010 for support services for the Utility Helicopter Project Office. U.S. Army Contracting Command Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, is the contracting activity.
Two Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-On mission (Grace-FO) spacecraft were launched on May 22 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 from Vandenberg AFB.
After a multiyear pause in mergers and acquisitions, aerospace and defense supplier Curtiss-Wright could be back into making regular, significant deals.
BAE Systems has almost completed transitioning support of the F-35’s electronic warfare system to the program’s first performance-based logistics contract.
Aerostructures supplier Spirit AeroSystems is turning an empty field north of its south Wichita plant into a state-of-the-art Global Digital Logistics Center.
The Israeli Air Force has used its F-35I in combat against Iranian targets in Syria, making the service the first to use the stealthy fighter operationally.
Insight into the smaller players in the U.S. Army’s Joint Multi-Role Technology Demonstrator program was provided at the AHS International Forum 74 convention.
The contracts to study a sovereign UK satellite-based navigation system would follow the European Commission’s plan to prevent British suppliers from working on the Galileo in light of the UK’s impending exit from the European Union.
The commercial space sector is to play a significant operational role in future human low Earth orbit activities, as direct NASA funding of the ISS is to come to a close by 2025.
The launch of Orbital ATK’s ninth NASA-contracted re-supply mission to the International Space Station from Wallops Island Flight Facility on Virginia’s eastern shore has been re-set to May 21 at 4:39 a.m. EDT, a day’s delay, to accommodate additional pre-launch inspections and an improved weather outlook.
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