Military equipment

Raytheon awarded US Navy next generation Air and Missile Defense Radar contract

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Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) has been awarded a $385,742,176 cost-plus-incentive-fee contract for the engineering and modeling development phase design, development, integration, test and delivery of Air and Missile Defense S-Band Radar (AMDR-S) and Radar Suite Controller (RSC). AMDR is the Navy’s next generation integrated air and missile defense radar and is being designed for Flight … Dowiedz się więcej

F-35 Program Halts Development Of Alternate Helmet

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The F-35 Joint Program Office (JPO) today informed Lockheed Martin [NYSE:LMT] that it decided to halt development of the alternate F-35 helmet and focus exclusively on maturing the Rockwell Collins Elbit Systems of America Vision Systems Generation 2 (Gen 2) helmet currently used in training and testing. The program will recoup approximately $45 million in … Dowiedz się więcej

Embraer selects Thales IFF systems for military aircraft upgrades

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Brazilian aircraft manufacturer Embraer has awarded Thales a contract to supply IFF (Identification Friend or Foe) transponders for the upgrade of A1M fighters and E-99 AEW surveillance aircraft in service with the Brazilian Air Force. A total of 48 aircraft will be retrofitted with the new IFF transponders. Thales will supply its TSC 2030 and … Dowiedz się więcej

UTC Aerospace Systems achieves F-35 supplier award

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UTC Aerospace Systems has received a supplier award from Lockheed Martin for its actuation systems contributions to the F-35 Lightning II Program at the DSEI tradeshow. UTC Aerospace Systems is a unit of United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX). The company’s Actuation Systems business, based in Wolverhampton, UK, provides the weapons bay door drive system, utilities … Dowiedz się więcej

Orbit Raising Propulsion for the Air Force Advanced Extremely High Frequency SV-3 Satellite

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Aerojet Rocketdyne, a GenCorp (NYSE:GY) company, announced today that its XR-5 high-power Hall Solar Electric Propulsion (SEP) system has initiated orbit raising operations on the Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) Space Vehicle 3 (SV-3) that launched September 18 aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket. Each AEHF Space Vehicle includes four of Aerojet Rocketdyne’s … Dowiedz się więcej

Rolls-Royce Awarded T56 Engine Support Contracts

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Rolls-Royce has been awarded two contracts worth a combined value up to $496 million to support T56 engines on US government aircraft. Under a $406 million, six-year contract, Rolls-Royce will provide parts, plus field and engineering support, for thousands of T56 engines. The contract was awarded by the Defense Logistics Agency and will support approximately … Dowiedz się więcej