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  • Air Force Taps Lockheed Martin to Construct New Fuselage Trainer Under Previously Awarded IDIQ - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Taps Lockheed Martin to Construct New Fuselage Trainer Under Previously Awarded IDIQ

    Lockheed Martin‘s rotary and mission systems business unit has secured a $19.1 million delivery order from the U.S. Air Force to manufacture an enhanced fuselage trainer as part of a previously awarded indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. The Defense Department said Monday Lockheed will provide modified C-130J airframe assets that will reflect the appearance, functions and performance of […] More

  • Lockheed Unveils New Civil Freighter Variant of C-130J Tactical Airlifter - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Unveils New Civil Freighter Variant of C-130J Tactical Airlifter

    Lockheed Martin has unveiled a multipurpose commercial freighter offering the company derived from its C-130J Super Hercules aircraft platform for military transport operations. The LM-100J  is a modernized version of the L-100 Hercules platform and designed to support oversized cargo transport, oil and gas exploration, mining logistics, aerial firefighting, medical evacuation/air ambulance and search-and-rescue operations, Lockheed said Thursday. The […] More

  • Northrop, Australia's Air Force Demo Distributed Network Training Environment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop, Australia’s Air Force Demo Distributed Network Training Environment

    Northrop Grumman has commenced a demonstration of a distributed network virtual training environment between two simulator platforms of Australia’s air force and the company’s test lab. Northrop said Tuesday the KC-30A Multi-Role Tanker Transport and C-17A Globemaster II simulators were utilized for the tests designed to determine operating standards required to meet standards similar to the U.S. Air Force […] More

  • Germany Eyes Lockheed Martin Military Transport Plane Purchase - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Germany Eyes Lockheed Martin Military Transport Plane Purchase

    Germany has announced plans to procure between four and six Lockheed Martin-built transport planes following delays in the delivery of the Airbus Group-built A400M military cargo aircraft, Marketwatch reported Tuesday. Robert Wall writes Ursula von der Leyern, Germany’s defense minister, has signed a declaration of intent to acquire the Lockheed C-130J transport planes under the same pool of aircraft that […] More

  • CAE Helps Australian, Canadian Airmen Conduct Joint Tactical Simulation Exercise; Gene Colabatistto Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CAE Helps Australian, Canadian Airmen Conduct Joint Tactical Simulation Exercise; Gene Colabatistto Comments

    CAE worked with the air forces of Australia and Canada to help them participate in a multinational integrated live-virtual-constructive exercise with their U.K and U.S. counterparts in mid-August. The Royal Canadian Air Force and the Royal Australian Air Force implemented CAE-built full-mission simulators during the Coalition Virtual Flag 16 event, the company said Wednesday. “These kinds of distributed mission training exercises… […] More

  • Lockheed Martin Ships Another MC-130J Combat Transport Aircraft to Air Force - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Martin Ships Another MC-130J Combat Transport Aircraft to Air Force

    Lockheed Martin has delivered an additional MC-130J Commando II combat transport and special operations tanker to the U.S. Air Force. The company said Monday the Air Force has assigned the aircraft to the Air Force Special Operations Command at Hurlburt Field in Florida The Lockheed-built MC-130J will succeed the legacy MC-130P Combat Shadow aircraft. The MC-130J is designed to support […] More

  • Lockheed Secures $71M Air Force C-130J Aircraft Sustainment Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Secures $71M Air Force C-130J Aircraft Sustainment Contract

    Lockheed Martin has secured a one-year, $71.4 million contract to perform sustainment work on the U.S. Air Force‘s fleet of C-130J Super Hercules military transport aircraft. The company will also provide inventory control point management, consumable spares replenishment, repair, sustaining engineering support, technical data and depot activation services for the aircraft’s weapon system, the Defense Department said Friday. Work under […] More

  • Lockheed Martin Starts Construction on Training Center for Hercules Pilots, Crew - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Martin Starts Construction on Training Center for Hercules Pilots, Crew

    Lockheed Martin has started the construction of a training center focused on the C-130J Super Hercules airlifter and LM-100J commercial freighter at a site in Marietta, Georgia. The Hercules Training Center will work to train future air mobility pilots and crews for the C-130J and LM-100J and feature classroom space, training devices and a reconfigurable C-130J/LM-100J full-mission simulator, Lockheed said Tuesday. Sandy Samuel, […] More

  • Lockheed Delivers 2 C-130J Variants to Coast Guard, Air Force - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Delivers 2 C-130J Variants to Coast Guard, Air Force

    Lockheed Martin has dispatched two variants of the company’s C-130J Super Hercules airlifter to the U.S. Coast Guard and U.S. Air Force. The company said Thursday that the Coast Guard received the search-and-surveillance HC-130J Tuesday after that aircraft underwent post-production modifications at a Lockheed facility in Greenville, South Carolina while the MC-130J was delivered Friday to the Air Force Special […] More

  • Lockheed Begins Wing Production of LM-100J Freighter Aircraft; George Shultz Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Begins Wing Production of LM-100J Freighter Aircraft; George Shultz Comments

    Lockheed Martin has begun wing production for the LM-100J commercial freighter aircraft — the civil-certified variant of the C-130J Super Hercules — at the company’s facility in Marietta, Georgia. Lockheed said Monday it is manufacturing other structural components at its Meridian, Mississippi and Clarksburg, West Virginia facilities. George Shultz, Lockheed vice president and general manager of air mobility and maritime missions, said the LM-100J […] More

  • Cubic Subcontracts IEE to Build Military Aircraft Control Display - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cubic Subcontracts IEE to Build Military Aircraft Control Display

    Cubic‘s global defense segment has awarded IEE a contract to provide control display units for integration with Cubic-built Personnel Locator Systems that are currently used in multiple types of military aircraft. IEE said Monday it will build 3.5-inch active-matrix liquid-crystal displays in an effort to help Cubic Global Defense update current PLS CDUs on military aerial platforms such as the U.S. Air Force‘s C-130J transport […] More

  • CAE to Deliver C-130J Fuselage Trainer for Australia's Air Force - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CAE to Deliver C-130J Fuselage Trainer for Australia’s Air Force

    CAE has been awarded a contract from Australia’s defense ministry to develop a C-130J fuselage cargo compartment trainer for that country’s air force. The company said Wednesday CAE Australia will deliver the fuselage trainer to RAAF Base Richmond in 2018 to help support training of C-130J loadmaster aircrews in loading and unloading C-130J Hercules aircraft cargo. The Australian air force award is one […] More