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  • Cubic Receives Subcontract for British UAS Tactical Common Data Links
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    Cubic Receives Subcontract for British UAS Tactical Common Data Links

    Cubic Corp. has been awarded a three-year, $1.4 million subcontract extension award from UAV Tactical Systems to provide additional Tactical Common Data Links for the U.K. defense ministry of defense’s Watchkeeper Unmanned Aircraft System program. The TCDL is a wireless connection system designed to facilitate image and data transfers from UAS platforms to ground control stations through digital signal processing […] More

  • Boeing, Mahindra Launch C-17 Training Center for India’s Air Force
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    Boeing, Mahindra Launch C-17 Training Center for India’s Air Force

    Boeing and Mahindra Defense Systems have launched a new facility at the Flight Simulation Technique Center in Gurgaon, India, to support C-17 pilot and loadmaster training for the Indian air force. The full-service center is designed to train  C-17 aircrews for military airlift operations, humanitarian missions, aerial refueling and emergency procedures through simulation, courseware and computer-based training, Boeing said Friday. The company added that the facility will […] More

  • Finland Picks L-3 Division to Supply Infrared Imaging Tools for Airbus-Built H215 Choppers
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    Finland Picks L-3 Division to Supply Infrared Imaging Tools for Airbus-Built H215 Choppers

    An L-3 Communications division has secured an order from an agency in Finland to supply infrared imaging tools for installation onboard Airbus Group-built H215 helicopters. L-3 WESCAM will integrate its MX-15 electro-optical and infrared imaging systems with Finnish Border Guard’s H215 aircraft designed for use in search-and-rescue and maritime border patrol missions, L-3 Communications said Monday. […] More

  • Army Concludes Raytheon Patriot PDB-8 Developmental Test; Ralph Acaba Comments
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    Army Concludes Raytheon Patriot PDB-8 Developmental Test; Ralph Acaba Comments

    The U.S. Army has completed the last of four developmental tests for the Post Deployment Build 8 configuration of Raytheon‘s Patriot Integrated Air and Missile Defense system. Raytheon said Friday the PDB-8 Patriot system worked to detect, track and engage a cruise missile target and a fighter aircraft with the Guidance Enhanced Missile TBM and the Lockheed Martin-built PAC-3 Missile Segment Enhancement interceptors, respectively, during the test. “Using an […] More

  • Raytheon Lands Contract to Demo EW Upgrades for Air Force Decoy Missile
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    Raytheon Lands Contract to Demo EW Upgrades for Air Force Decoy Missile

    The U.S. Air Force has awarded Raytheon a potential $34.8 million contract to demonstrate an updated electronic warfare technology for the Miniature Air Launched Decoy-Jammer. Raytheon said Sunday it is scheduled to complete development of MALD-X, successor of the current MALD-J model, within a 24-month period and will conduct two flight demonstrations to showcase the aerial decoy’s EW upgrades. MALD-X will feature an EW payload, a low-altitude flight mode and […] More

  • Patria Taps Esterline to Update Cockpit Avionics Platform on Finland Air Force’s Hawk Aircraft
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    Patria Taps Esterline to Update Cockpit Avionics Platform on Finland Air Force’s Hawk Aircraft

    Finland-based aerospace company Patria has awarded an Esterline subsidiary a contract to update the cockpit avionics platform onboard the Finnish air force’s fleet of BAE Systems-built Hawk trainer aircraft. Esterline CMC Electronics will integrate its Cockpit 4000 glass-based avionics suite with seven Hawk Mk51 planes under the contract, Esterline said Monday. The Cockpit 4000 avionics platform […] More

  • Leonardo-Finmeccanica Unveils Dual Role Version of M-346 Trainer Aircraft
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    Leonardo-Finmeccanica Unveils Dual Role Version of M-346 Trainer Aircraft

    Leonardo-Finmeccanica has introduced a dual role model of the M-346 trainer, developed by the Italian conglomerate’s subsidiary Alenia Aermacchi, and expects the new aircraft to enter service in 2018, Defense News reported Sunday. Tom Kington writes the M-346FT trainer is designed to shift between pilot training application and combat operations. The aircraft incorporates a new tactical datalink and five hard points […] More

  • MBDA-Led Consortium to Demo Laser Capacity for UK Military
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    MBDA-Led Consortium to Demo Laser Capacity for UK Military

    The U.K. military has selected MBDA to demonstrate a capacity to field laser-directed weapons that can potentially urge the country’s navy and other services to utilize similar systems, Defense News reported Sunday. Andrew Chuter writes MBDA leads a bid team called UK Dragonfire that includes BAE Systems, Leonardo-Finmeccanica, Marshall Defense and Aerospace and Qinetiq to develop a solid state high power demonstrator weapon […] More

  • Composite Engineering Nabs Air Force UAS R&D Deal
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    Composite Engineering Nabs Air Force UAS R&D Deal

    The U.S. Air Force has awarded a $40.8 million cost-share research-and-development contract to Composite Engineering Inc. to help the service branch develop an unmanned aerial system. The Defense Department said Friday CEI will design, build, assemble and test a technical baseline for a new long-range, high-speed UAS platform as well as identify key technology for future aircraft demonstrations and a vehicle for […] More

  • SAIC Subcontracts Fulcrum for Cybercom Operations Support; Jeff Handy Comments
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    SAIC Subcontracts Fulcrum for Cybercom Operations Support; Jeff Handy Comments

    Fulcrum has received a subcontract from Science Applications International Corp. to provide technology and operations support services to the U.S. Cyber Command. Fulcrum will work to help SAIC provide cyber strategy planning assistance, digital and non-digital information services related to Internet-of-Things security, cyber operations, and intelligence support to Cybercom under a potential five-year, $460 million multiple-award […] More

  • ICF Subsidiary Selected for EC Communication Services
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    ICF Subsidiary Selected for EC Communication Services

    An ICF International subsidiary has received a possible 4-year, $18 million communication framework service contract in support of the European Commission’s Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises. The company said Monday its ICF Mostra will work to develop and implement communication strategies in line with online and offline communication trends for EASME and the Directorates General for climate action, […] More

  • Northrop Gets DARPA Contract Modification for Counterfeit IC Detection Microchip
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    Northrop Gets DARPA Contract Modification for Counterfeit IC Detection Microchip

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded Northrop Grumman a potential $7.2 million contract modification to begin work on the second phase of the Supply Chain Hardware Integrity for Electronics Defense program. The modification exercises the initial option to a previously awarded contract with a 21-month base term and brings the total contract value from $12.3 million […] More