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Northrop Grumman Corporation will be signing four memoranda of understanding (MOU) with its Korean industry partners on Tuesday, Oct. 18, during the Seoul International Aerospace & Defense Exhibition at the Seoul Airport in South Korea. The MOU signings will enable the Northrop Grumman Korea Global Hawk team – composed of Northrop
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The Boeing Company has announced that it has created a new division to better align the company’s Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) capabilities. The new Electronic & Mission Systems (E&MS) division will operate within the Network and Space Systems business unit and include
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Datron World Communications, Inc. a leader in the tactical and public safety communications industry, announced a significant equity investment in Aeryon Labs, a Canadian-based technology innovator of robotics for aerial intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance. Under terms of the agreement, Datron will become an equity partner in Aeryon Labs while
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Battlespace Flight Services, LLC of Arlington, Va., is being awarded a $104,179,468 firm fixed price/cost plus award fee contract modification to fund extension of contract for organizational maintenance support for the predator MQ-1 aircraft and related systems at Creech Air Force base, Nev., Whiteman Air Force
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General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc., Poway, California, was awarded an $8,795,979 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract. The award comes under a CLS (Contractor Logistics Support) contract and will provide for the Reset efforts for the Warrior A (now known as the Sky Warrior Alpha) and the Warrior Block
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General Atomics Aeronautical Systems was awarded an $84.8 million contract to provide logistics and hardware support for its MQ-1C Gray Eagle. The US Defense Department made the announcement on Wednesday. The deal runs through March 2013. Source: Pomerado News
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AAI Corp. was awarded an $11,074,078 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract. The award will provide for the engineering services in support of the Shadow 200 unmanned aircraft systems. Work will be performed in Hunt Valley, Md., with an estimated completion date of May 31, 2013. One bid was
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Harris Corporation has opened a new office at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama to support the communications and information technology needs of a diverse range of US Army programmes. The Huntsville site is the fourth new Harris office opened in 2011 in direct support of U.S. Army requirements. The
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Northrop Grumman Corp., San Diego, California, is being awarded an $18,650,000 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance services in support of the deployment of the MQ-8B vertical takeoff and landing tactical unmanned aerial vehicle. Work will be performed in Afghanistan (90 percent) and
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United Technologies (UTC) has agreed to buy Goodrich for $18.4 billion, subject to regulatory approvals. UTC expects the combined company to have worldwide sales of approximately $66 billion, based on its projected 2011 results. The purchase would result in increased scale, financial strength and complementary products, strengthening the company&
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Wyle Laboratories, Inc., Huntsville, Alabama, is being awarded a $44,953,376 cost-plus-fixed-fee, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity requirements contract.The contract is to provide development of reliability improvement processes and successful implementation to enhance readiness while reducing life-cycle costs for unmanned aerial systems programs utilizing reliability,
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The Korean Government may abandon a plan to buy Global Hawks because their price is way higher than the budget. The government and military have aggressively pushed to buy the Global Hawk since 2005 to build up South Korea's own reconnaissance capabilities in preparation for the handover of