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    Navy Runs Safe Separation Tests of Lockheed-Built Anti-Submarine Weapon

    The U.S. Navy has begun to conduct safe separation tests of a Lockheed Martin-built anti-submarine warfare weapon from Boeing-made P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft, Flighglobal reported Wednesday. Stephen Trimble writes the High Altitude Anti-submarine warfare Weapon Capability is scheduled to undergo guided flight test in late fiscal 2017, which will permit program officials to potentially order 140 weapons in the […] More

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    Boeing Secures $59M Air Force KC-46 Support Contract Option

    Boeing has secured a one-year, $59.2 million contract option for interim contracting support to the U.S. Air Force‘s fleet of KC-46 military aerial refueling and transport aircraft. The Defense Department said Monday the company will perform work under the exercised option through March 24, 2018. DoD noted that the service branch will use fiscal 2016 aircraft procurement funds to cover […] More

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    Rolls-Royce Opens Jet Engine R&D Lab in Purdue Research Park Aerospace District

    Rolls-Royce has opened a facility at the Purdue Research Park Aerospace District in West Lafayette, Indiana, where the company will research and develop jet engine components for customers globally. The Purdue Technology Center Aerospace will house a Rolls-Royce group that aims to design, build and test engine parts, collaborate with Purdue University researchers via corporate partnerships and recruit student interns and graduates, […] More

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    Report: Belgium Issues F-16 Fighter Aircraft Replacement RFPs

    Belgium has kicked off a search for new multirole fighter aircraft that will replace the Belgian air force’s fleet of Lockheed Martin-built F-16 planes, IHS Jane’s 360 reported Monday. Gareth Jennings writes Belgium requested proposals from multiple international defense organizations for the Eurofighter Typhoon, Lockheed’s F-35A, Boeing‘s F/A-18E/F Super Hornet, Dassault Aviation‘s Rafale and Saab‘s Gripen E. Belgium aims to select a platform in […] More

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    Boeing Lands Contract Option for Navy Shipboard Network Engineering Support

    Boeing has received a potential one-year, $13.7 million contract option to continue to provide technical engineering and design agent support services for the AN/USQ-82(V) Gigabit Ethernet Data Multiplex System aboard the U.S. Navy’s DDG 51-class destroyers. The Defense Department said Wednesday the exercised option on a previously awarded contract covers purchases for the service branch as […] More

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    Northrop to Overhaul Air Force KC-10 Extender Engines

    Northrop Grumman‘s technical services business has won a $16.9 million delivery  order from the U.S. Air Force to overhaul engines of the service branch’s KC-10 Extender  tanker and cargo aircraft. The Air Force received two offers for the delivery order through an “adequate price” competition and will use fiscal 2017 operations and maintenance funds to cover the full […] More

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    Boeing, Air Force Test KC-46A Tankers at Travis AFB

    The U.S. Air Force and Boeing conducted flight tests of a company-built KC-46A Pegasus refueling aircraft from March 7 to 10 at Travis Air Force Base in California. A team composed of 48 Boeing employees and four Air Force personnel performed ground and flight tests during the four-day event, the military branch said Monday. Capt. Dylan Neidorff, an Air […] More

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    Report: Boeing Seeks to Build V-22 Aircraft Modification Hub in Pennsylvania

    Boeing has asked the state of Pennsylvania for a $30 million grant to help the company redevelop a vacant industrial building in Delaware County into a modification facility for V-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported Monday. Jacob Adelman writes a grant application filed through the state’s Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program and obtained by the Inquirer says that […] More

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    Lt. Gen. Arnold Bunch: Air Force Seeks Open GPS Tech Ideas via Plug Fest

    The U.S. Air Force has introduced an open-source initiative to gather input from interested companies on how to modernize the service branch’s Global Positioning System, Space News reported Friday. Phillip Swarts writes Lt. Gen. Arnold Bunch, military deputy for acquisition at the Air Force, said the Plug Fest program seeks potential traditional and nontraditional partners that can help the […] More

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    ULA’s Delta IV Rocket Launches 9th Boeing-Built WGS Military Comms Satellite Into Space

    United Launch Alliance launched a Boeing-built satellite into orbit Saturday aboard a Delta IV rocket to provide military communications support for the U.S. military and six of the country’s allies. The ninth Wideband Global SATCOM satellite with  updated digital channelizers that are designed to nearly double the bandwidth of earlier satellites in the WGS system, Boeing said Saturday. Boeing is contracted to build 10 WGS […] More

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    Canada Requests to Buy 18 Boeing-Built Super Hornets as Interim Fighter Fleet

    Canada has sent a letter of request to the U.S. government for the potential acquisition of 18 Boeing-made F-18 Super Hornet aircraft to address the need for an interim fighter fleet. The Canadian government said Tuesday the Super Hornets will supplement the legacy CF-18 fleet until the country identifies a replacement aircraft through an open competition. The potential sale will impose Canada’s Industrial and Technological Benefits […] More

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    Research and Markets: Innovations Drive Military Satellite Payload, Subsystem Market Growth

    Research and Markets has predicted the global market for military satellite payloads and subsystems will grow at a 5.35 percent compound annual growth rate through 2021 due to advancements in satellites, antenna technology and networks. The research firm said it also forecasts that the emergence of ground-based inflatable satellite communications antennas for military applications will help drive market growth. The “Global Military Satellite […] More