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Boeing has secured a two-year, $18.7 million contract from the government of the United Arab Emirates to logistics support and training simulator maintenance services for UAE’s C-17 Globemaster III military transport aircraft. The company said Tuesday the C-17 Globemaster III will support the country’s inventory of motion-based devices built for airlifter crew and personnel training. “With this new […] More

Lockheed Martin has conducted the first flight test of a second trainer aircraft that the company plans to offer in the U.S. Air Force‘s T-X trainer competition. The company said Monday the demonstration of its second production-ready T-50A  aircraft occurred in Greenville, South Carolina, where Lockheed’s final assembly and checkout facility is located. T-50A is designed to train pilots of F-22 […] More

A new report from Frost & Sullivan estimates the U.S. government and military sector currently accounts for 87.2 percent of the country’s overall satellite services spending. The research firm’s “U.S. Government and Military Satellite Market, Forecast to 2022” report also shows that SES and Intelsat have the biggest presence in the domestic military market with a combined 57.7 percent market share, Frost & Sullivan said […] More

A Northrop Grumman subsidiary has signed a letter of intent with Poland’s state-owned defense company Polska Grupa Zbrojeniowa to explore potential areas of industrial cooperation. Northrop said Monday the LOI seeks to foster closer partnership between its international trading business and PGZ on the development of a range of defense and security technology offerings to Poland’s ministry of national defense. “This LOI demonstrates […] More

A joint venture between Lockheed Martin, Injaz National and Tecgrant has unveiled a robotic portable machine system designed to operate as a standalone tool or in conjunction with other production systems. Exechon‘s XMini manufacturing device combines the articulated-arm robot dynamics with the accuracy of a rigid machine tool and uses parallel kinematics machining to automate manufacturing functions, Lockheed said Monday. […] More

NASA has chosen five space technologies to test fly on high-altitude balloons, suborbital rockets or aircraft that simulate low gravity. The agency said Saturday the selected experiments are part of the Flight Opportunities program that aims to test space technologies through methods that simulate spaceflight. Stephan Ord, technology manager for NASA’s Flight Opportunities program, said the program works to help NASA […] More