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A joint venture between Bell Helicopter and Boeing has received a $23.3 million order to deliver flight test and evaluation services for the U.S. Navy‘s V-22 Osprey aircraft. The Naval Air Systems Command obligated the whole amount in fiscal 2018 funds which will not expire upon the conclusion of the current fiscal year, the Defense Department said Tuesday . The company will perform 90 […] More

Aitech Defense Systems has unveiled a new power supply unit for CompactPCI, VME and VPX embedded computing systems, Military & Aerospace Electronics reported Tuesday. The 500-Watt 3U VITA 62 power supply called P233 was designed to support military embedded computing systems as well as offer added system reliability and redundancy. The MIL-STD-704-compliant P233 also caters to ENABLE#, FAIL#, […] More

NASA has announced an instrument the agency designed to study the region between earth’s atmosphere and space will fly as hosted payload onboard a commercial satellite. The agency said Wednesday its Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk mission will launch with a geostationary communications satellite that Airbus Group built for Luxembourg-based operator SES. SES-14 is scheduled to lift […] More

Synergetics has received new certification that recognizes the company’s compliance with leadership and management quality standards established by the International Organization for Standardization. The company said Tuesday it transitioned to the ISO 9001:2015 credential after it held the ISO 9001:2008 certification over the past nine years. Colorado-based Synergetics offers a range of information technology services to federal agencies through the General Services Administration’s 8(a) STARS […] More

Leidos has received a potential five-year, $42 million contract from the Naval Surface Warfare Center’s Carderock Division to continue support services for a signature silencing program at the U.S. Navy‘s Southeast Alaska Measurement Facility. The company said Tuesday it helps the service branch operate and maintain SEAFAC during acoustic trials as well as repair all facility […] More

Sierra Nevada Corp. has awarded Triumph Group a contract to produce a landing gear system for a reusable lifting-body vehicle designed to support NASA‘s resupply mission to the International Space Station. Triumph said Tuesday it will provide main and nose landing gear along with integrated actuation technologies for door systems of Dream Chaser spacecraft SNC is building under its Commercial Resupply Services 2 contract […] More