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The U.S. Navy has awarded Lockheed Martin a two-year, $8.2 million delivery order to design, build and maintain avionics systems for the Presidential Helicopter Program. The order falls under a previously awarded indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract and covers avionics hardware and software development, testing, fabrication, installation and maintenance services, the Defense Department said Monday. Lockheed’s logistics services unit will perform […] More

Raytheon has secured an $8.8 million contract to equip the U.S. Air Force‘s F-15 multirole fighter aircraft with center display units. The Defense Department said Tuesday Raytheon will retrofit 130 F-16 CDUs as well as provide organic depot maintenance stand-up services under the firm-fixed-price contract. DoD noted the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center will obligate the full contract […] More

A new Strategic Defense Intelligence report forecasts the worldwide market for  military armored vehicles and associated maintenance, repair and operations will reach a value of $32.4 billion by 2026 from $22.5 billion in 2016, at a compound annual growth rate of 3.71 percent. Efforts to provide protection and munitions to ground forces as well as threat from neighboring […] More

Maximus has secured a contract to help Idaho’s department of health and welfare manage a new program that offers workforce services to eligible participants in the state’s Supplemental Nutritional Assistance and Temporary Assistance for Families in Idaho programs. The company said Tuesday it will work with SNAP and TAFI beneficiaries to gauge their skills and interests, build a career plan and […] More

The Defense Department has expressed support to proposals by Lockheed Martin and Boeing to produce their respective F-16 and F-18 fighter jets in India as part of the Make in India program, Hindustan Times reported Monday. Shishir Gupta writes Defense Secretary Ashton Carter relayed DoD’s support to the proposals to Manohar Parrikar, India’s defense minister, during the […] More

SpaceX has initiated an investigation into the cause of the explosion of the company’s Falcon 9 rocket Thursday at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida approximately eight minutes before the rocket’s static fire test. SpaceX said Friday its probe complies with accident investigation plans that include collection of all potential evidence and formation of […] More

NASA‘s science mission directorate has cleared the space agency’s new plan to launch a Lockheed Martin-built robotic spacecraft May 5, 2018 as part of efforts to investigate the deep interior of Mars. The agency said Friday it expects the Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport lander to reach the Red Planet by Nov. 26, 2018. “Our robotic scientific explorers […] More

Andy Start, president of Inmarsat’s global government business, has said the company seeks to help the government perform its mission using a satellite network infrastructure that works to deliver what he calls a “digital edge.” Start wrote in a blog post published Thursday that Inmarsat designed its global satellite network to meet the security requirements of government […] More

The Australian subsidiaries of BAE Systems and Raytheon have partnered to bid for a $765 million contract to update a radar network that supports aerial and maritime surveillance efforts of the Australian military. Daronmont Technologies and RCR Resolve FM also joined the BAE-led team that will pursue Australia’s Jindalee Operational Radar Network modernization program, BAE said Sunday. Raytheon will provide systems integration expertise under […] More

Lockheed Martin and Poland-based Warsaw University of Technology have jointly demonstrated unmanned aerial vehicle optimization technologies through aerial command and control of multiple UAVs. Lockheed said Friday the demonstration builds on a joint applied research effort between the company and the university that seeks to modernize various aircraft fleets as well as identify C2 concepts for manned and unmanned airborne […] More

MBDA has secured a contract of an undisclosed value to build a coastal defense system that will work to help Qatar’s navy defend territorial waters against hostile ships. The system will be designed to deploy an extended-range Marte missile and an Exocet MM40 Block 3 missile as well as feature autonomous radar mode and data-linking to a higher level within a coastal surveillance network, MBDA said […] More

Aerojet Rocketdyne has completed a full-scale component test for a rocket engine the company is developing with the U.S. Air Force as part of efforts to end the nation’s reliance on Russian technology for satellite launch missions. The Hydrocarbon Boost Technology Demonstrator, a major component in the Air Force’s Oxygen Rich Staged Combustion engine development initiative, underwent its first full-scale test at 100-percent […] More