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MBDA Inc., the wholly owned U.S. subsidiary of missile manufacturer MBDA, has purchased Northrop Grumman Corporation’s Viper Strike munitions business, located in Huntsville, AL. Terms of the agreement are not being disclosed. The Viper Strike purchase is MBDA Inc.’s first acquisition in the U.S. and is
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L-3 Communications Corp. has entered into an agreement to acquire the Kollmorgen Electro-Optical unit of Danaher Corp. for $210 million in cash. KEO develops and manufactures specialized equipment for the U.S. military, prime contractors and allied nations. Products include submarine photonics systems and periscopes, ship fire control
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General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Poway, California, is being awarded a $319,236,484 firm-fixed-price contract for 40 MQ-9 Block 1 aircraft, and 40 aircraft containers. The location of the performance is Poway, Calif. Work is expected to be completed by September 2013. This was a sole-source
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General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Poway, California, is being awarded a $9,381,403 firm-fixed-price contract for the delivery order for seven Fixed Ground Control Stations. The location of the performance is Poway, California, and is expected to be completed by December 31, 2012. ESC/HIBK, Wright-Patterson Air
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SELEX Galileo, a Finmeccanica company, has won contracts in excess of €23 million to provide logistics support for a range of systems. These include support agreements for the Tornado aircraft, Falco Unmanned Aircraft System and a €6 million contract to provide engineering support for the upgrade of radar systems. “Logistics
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Boosted by an increase in sales, AeroVironment Inc. exceeded analyst estimates and reported $6.6 million in second-quarter profit, a large increase over the same period a year ago. The company posted $6.6 million in net income, or 30 cents a share, on Tuesday for the quarter ended
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Elbit Systems of America, LLC, announced that it purchased from General Dynamics Armament and Technical Products its holdings in UAS Dynamics, LLC, a joint venture established by Elbit and General Dynamics to provide UAS to the U.S. market, thus making Elbit Systems of America the sole owner of UAS
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Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. announced that its Weapon Systems Solutions Division -- Digital Fusion Solutions, Inc. (DFSI) subsidiary was a critical team member of Aerodyne, Inc., which was awarded a contract with potential value over $105 million to provide technical and engineering support for the US Army Unmanned Aircraft
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Northrop Grumman Space & Mission Systems is being awarded a $29,515,929 firm-fixed-price contract modification. This is for the infrastructure portion of the Engineering and Manufacturing Development (EMD) Block Load effort that provides for the necessary tasks that allow the contractor to manage the day-to-day
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Northrop Grumman Systems Corp. is being awarded a $45,835,942 cost-plus-incentive-fee contract modification. This contract is for software maintenance tasks necessary for the contractor to maintain support software for air vehicles, ground support segments. Flight test covers the tasks necessary for the Global Hawk System Integrator
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AeroVironment’s Hummingbird - a surveillance prototype for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency - made the front cover of The Invention issue of TIME, which appears on November 28 and which features 50 new inventions. New York photographer Jamie Chung spent two and a half weeks shooting the Hummingbird—among a
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North Eastern Aeronautical Company Inc. (NEANY), headquartered in Hollywood, MD, was recently ranked third in the nation for 8(a) Prime Contractors by Washington Technology. NEANY is a minority-owned 8(a) certified research, development, test and evaluation firm currently producing innovative unmanned air and ground solutions providing battlespace awareness,