Military
ThalesRaytheonSystems has announced that the US Army will procure 56 Improved Sentinel Battlefield Air Defense AN/MPQ-64 Radars. The company has already delivered more than 220 radars to customers worldwide and is working with several allied nations to leverage the current production to meet their sensing requirements. The AN/
Testing
The Chinese Xianglong ‘Soaring Dragon’ was recently seen at Chengdu seemingly prepared for a first test flight. The Soaring Dragon uses an innovative ‘joined wing’ design, employing a conventional swept wing joined with a forward swept wing. A model depicting this configuration was shown at the Zuhai China Airshow 2006.
Military
Taiwan-developed unmanned aircraft will be commissioned early next year as part of the military's efforts to build up asymmetric/innovative defense capabilities, a local newspaper reported on Monday. A total of 32 UAS have been produced in the initial stage, with eight to be deployed in each
Business
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
Military
Georgia Tech Applied Research Corp., Atlanta, Ga., is being awarded a $25,135,974 cost-plus-fixed-fee, indefinite-delivery, requirements contract for ground-based sensors for remotely controlled aircraft. ESG/PKS, Offutt Air Force Base, Neb., is the contracting activity (HC1047-05-D-4000 0201). Source: Laser Focus World
Military
Northrop Grumman Corp., Aerospace System, San Jose, California, is being awarded an estimated $54,227,582 cost-plus-incentive-fee contract modification. The award is to provide logistics support activities required to support the Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicle fielded systems and subsystems used in peacetime operations, which includes fielded
Events
Nick Miller, Thales Business Director for ISTAR and Unmanned Aircraft, presents the Watchkeeper's capabilities and production schedule. The interview was filmed recently at the DSEi 2011 in England Source: Flight Global
Business
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,
Military
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc., Poway, California, is being awarded a $21,618,560 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for expedited contractor support that is mandatory to meet urgent service operational requirements for the Predator and Reaper programs. ASC/WIIK, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, is the contracting activity
Business
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
Military
AAI Corp., Hunt Valley, Md., was awarded a $118,792,331 firm-fixed-price contract. The award will provide for the modification of an existing contract to procure 19 Tactical Common Data Link (TCDL) pool configuration kits; four TCDL regular configuration kits; 14 sets of mobile maintenance facility spares; and
Testing
According to Daryl Davis, chief of Boeing’s Phantom Works division, Boeing’s Phantom Ray is being put into storage, now that it’s successfully completed its test flights. The company is going to keep the aircraft in flyable condition with the hopes of dusting it off to contribute to