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General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc., Poway, California, was awarded a $12,000,000 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract. The award will provide for the support services for Warrior A/Block 0 unmanned aircraft systems. Work will be performed in Poway, with an estimated completion date of Dec. 17, 2013. One
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AAI Corp., Hunt Valley, Md., was awarded a $54,795,517 firm-fixed-price contract. The award will provide for the modification of an existing contract to procure laser designator retrofit kits for the Shadow unmanned aircraft system. Work will be performed in Hunt Valley, Md., with an estimated completion
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Lockheed Martin has announced the acquisition of substantially all of the assets of CDL Systems Ltd., a software engineering firm that specializes in the development and licensing of vehicle control station software for unmanned systems. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed and are not material to Lockheed Martin. CDL
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Elbit Systems Ltd. announced that the Company and Georgia have signed settlement agreements for settling all claims and disputes. In April, 2011 the Elbit Systems said it had filed a lawsuit in the High Court of Justice of the United Kingdom for Georgia's failure to pay USD 100
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Elbit Systems Ltd. announced that it was awarded a contract, valued at approximately $50 million, to supply Hermes 900 Unmanned Aircraft Systems to a governmental office of a country in the Americas. The UAS will be operated in a variety of perimeter security missions. The project will be performed over
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The US Air Force has awarded two contracts totalling $70.5 million to defense contractor Raytheon Co. to support targeting systems used by missile-carrying Predator unmanned aircraft. The Aeronautical Systems Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base awarded the contracts. Raytheon is to provide logistics support and improved imaging
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Las Vegas-based Arcata Associates has been selected NASA’s 2011 Small Business Prime Contractor of the Year. It’s the second time in four years that Arcata, a 32-year-old engineering services and information technology firm, has won the award. The company, whose first contract was to provide
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URS Corporation has acquired the assets of Daleville, Alabama based CATI Training Systems, which specialises in delivering advanced visual image generation systems and high fidelity visual simulation terrain databases for simulators, which are used to train civil, commercial and military pilots. The training systems from CATI are used by the
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The sale of as many as four Northrop Grumman Global Hawks to help improve South Korea’s reconnaissance capability may have stalled. South Korea has raised concerns about the price of the Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Block 30I Global Hawk unmanned aircraft and could open a tender for a high-
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Swift Engineering, a high-tech race car and aerospace firm off Avenida La Pata in San Clemente's commercial district, broke ground on a new 15,000-square-foot, $3-million manufacturing centre. Armed with the latest design technology and poised to increase its manufacturing capacity by at least
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A Memorandum of Understanding was signed between Cassidian on behalf of EADS Deutschland GmbH and Alenia Aeronautica S.p.A. to jointly investigate the potential cooperation in the field of Medium Altitude Long Endurance (MALE) Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) and Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicles (UCAV). Alenia and Cassidian are aiming
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Denmark's Army is planning to buy tactical unmanned aircraft systems for avariety of different missions. A delegation of military officials visited Israel recently as part of a market assessment. They met the Israeli Air Force and some local manufacturers during the trip. In 2006 the Danish Defence Ministry