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Boeing and Saab are set to demonstrate the performance and maintainability of their entry to the U.S. Air Force‘s T-X trainer aircraft program using the first two production units. The Boeing T-X features one engine, twin tails, stadium seating and a cockpit designed to provide ground-based training, Boeing said Tuesday. The company added the aircraft will work to support […] More
The U.S. Air Force has asked Boeing to submit a proposal on the engineering and manufacturing development phase for the service branch’s Presidential Aircraft Recapitalization program. The military branch said Monday it issued the request for proposal for the PAR program’s EMD phase after it received authorization from Frank Kendall, defense undersecretary for acquisition, technology […] More
South Korea could acquire four Boeing-built P-8 Poseidon maritime surveillance aircraft amid North Korea’s continued test firing of submarine-launched ballistic missiles, Korea JoongAng Daily reported Thursday. Jeong Yong-Soo and Kang Jin-Kyu write that the South Korean military considers a possible purchase of maritime patrol aircraft that work to detect North Korean submarines and avoid “surprise” attacks. The report said the current anti-submarine patrol aircraft of South […] More
The U.S. Air Force’s Global Strike Command tested a Boeing-built Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile system Monday at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The military branch said Monday 341st Missile Wing airmen launched the unarmed Minuteman III with a test re-entry vehicle that contained a telemetry package during the operational test, the Air Force said Monday. The re-entry vehicle traveled nearly 4,200 […] More
Honeywell International has received a potential three-year, $18.3 million delivery order from the Defense Logistics Agency to supply brakes for the U.S. Navy‘s fleet of F/A-18 Super Hornet aircraft. DLA’s aviation unit will fund the delivery order with the service branch’s fiscal 2016 working capital funds, the Defense Department said Tuesday. Honeywell will perform work in Indiana through June 30, […] More
Boeing has received a $9.6 million contract modification to provide Combat Network Communications Technology full-rate production spares as well as modify low-rate initial production spares for the U.S. Air Force‘s B-52 bomber fleet. The Defense Department said Tuesday Boeing will supply replaceable units for FRP-configured bomber aircraft and retrofit field-deployed, LRIP-configured bombers with with FRP line replaceable units. Work will occur in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma through […] More
The Defense Department has expressed support to proposals by Lockheed Martin and Boeing to produce their respective F-16 and F-18 fighter jets in India as part of the Make in India program, Hindustan Times reported Monday. Shishir Gupta writes Defense Secretary Ashton Carter relayed DoD’s support to the proposals to Manohar Parrikar, India’s defense minister, during the […] More
Boeing has received a $46.2 million contract from the U.S. Army to provide support for the wideband satellite communications operational management system. The Defense Department said Friday work will occur through Sept. 1, 2021 and that performance locations and funds will be determined with every order. The Army Contracting Command received one offer for the contract through an online […] More
NextFlex has launched a new technology facility in Silicon Valley with the task to deliver new manufacturing technologies designed to develop and produce flexible hybrid electronics. The 34,000-square-foot Flexible Hybrid Electronics Manufacturing Innovation Institute will include laboratory space dedicated to flexible hybrid manufacturing and Class 10,000 pilot manufacturing lines, the company said Wednesday. The Defense Department and FlexTech Alliance […] More
The U.S. Navy has signed an agreement with Canada’s defense department to establish the first-ever foreign military sales transaction for the RQ-21A Blackjack unmanned air system. The Navy and Marine Corps Small Tactical Unmanned Aircraft Systems Program Office plans to deliver one Blackjack UAS system to Canada’s army in 2017, the Navy said Monday. Marine Corps Col. Eldon Metzger, PMA-263 […] More
A trim-and-drill tool created by researchers at the Energy Department‘s Oak Ridge National Laboratory for Boeing has set a new Guinness World Record as the largest solid three-dimensionally printed item. ORNL said Monday the laboratory worked over 30 hours to print the tool that is 17.5 feet long, 5.5 feet wide and 1.5 feet tall with a weight of approximately 1,650 pounds. Boeing will use the trim […] More
United Launch Alliance is developing a reusable rocket stage that would stay in low Earth orbit and support activities in space, Quartz reported Saturday. Tim Fernholz writes ULA CEO Tory Bruno said a fleet of the company’s future Advanced Cryogenic Evolved Stage will work to support large-scale LEO activities as the company envisions a future in which humans […] More
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