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Boeing‘s Insitu subsidiary has received a $47 million delivery order from the U.S. Navy to provide eight ScanEagle unmanned aircraft systems, spares and support equipment to Afghanistan as part of a Building Partnership Capacity mission. Insitu will also deploy one logistician field service representative, 16 technical support operators and two site surveys and site activation teams to the foreign country, […] More

The U.S. Navy has awarded Boeing a two-year, $19.3 million contract to help investigate and address physiological episodes on the service branch’s F/A-18A-F and EA-18G platforms. Work under the sole-source contract will include research, development, inspection and modification activities, the Defense Department said Wednesday. The Navy will obligate $91,319 in fiscal 2018 aircraft procurement funds at the time of award. Boeing will […] More

Switzerland has unveiled a list of specifications for the country’s future combat aircraft and ground-based air defense system. The Swiss defense department said Friday its NKF combat aircraft should be able to protect the Swiss airspace and perform routine air policing missions continuously. The country is looking for an aircraft that can respond within minutes to […] More

NASA has pushed back from 2019 to May 2020 the launch of its James Webb Space Telescope to give the program’s engineers more time to test and integrate the telescope and spacecraft components. “All the observatory’s flight hardware is now complete, however, the issues brought to light with the spacecraft element are prompting us to take […] More

State-owned defense company Saudi Arabian Military Industries plans to sign a memorandum of understanding with Boeing for fleet training and support services, Reuters reported Wednesday. The non-binding agreement will come as Saudi Arabia aims to localize half of the country’s military sector by 2030. SAMI Ahmed Al Khateeb told Reuters at the 2018 Saudi-U.S. CEO Forum the company hopes […] More

KBR has secured a contract to provide basic engineering design and licensing services for a greenfield urea plant construction project in Gorakhpur, India. The company said Wednesday it will help design the ammonia plant for Hindustan Urvarak and Rasayan Ltd. as part of the contract with Toyo Engineering Corp. HURL will establish the Gorakhpur plant to support the Indian government’s national goal to achieve […] More

Thales and NASA have agreed to work together to advance the development of an unmanned aircraft system traffic management platform designed to advance the integration of drones into the national airspace system. The company said Tuesday it will leverage its experience in UTM development and create jobs in New York through the Space Act Agreement […] More

The city council of New Orleans, Louisiana, has approved a potential $6.5 million incentive package for DXC Technology in exchange for the creation of approximately 2,000 jobs in the next seven years, The New Orleans Advocate reported Sunday. The approval came four months after DXC announced plans to generate jobs in New Orleans as part of […] More

The U.S. Air Force plans to procure 22 lightly armed variants of the Cessna Caravan aircraft to deliver to allied governments for use in surveillance missions, FlightGlobal reported Monday. A notice posted Friday on FedBizOpps states that the Air Force wants potential vendors to supply AC-208 planes that are equipped with various weapons and sensors. Interested companies […] More

Satellite operating firm Spacecom has selected Maxar Technologies‘ SSL subsidiary to construct a new communications satellite that will add to the former’s AMOS COMSAT fleet. SSL will build the AMOS-8 that will be designed to provide broadcast and broadband coverage for locations in Europe, Africa and the Middle East, SSL said Monday. The satellite is expected to operate for at […] More