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  • Northrop Completes F-35 Center Fuselage for Integration In Japan - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Completes F-35 Center Fuselage for Integration In Japan

    Northrop Grumman will deliver the AX-5 center fuselage to Japan for integration into a conventional takeoff and landing variant of the Lockheed Martin F-35 aircraft. That F-35A jet will be the first to be assembled at Japan’s F-35 final assembly and checkout facility in Nagoya, Northrop said Sunday. The company added it held a ceremony Friday at its Palmdale Aircraft […] More

  • CAE Secures Flight Simulator, Magnetic Anomaly Detector, Training Service Contracts; Gene Colabatistto Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CAE Secures Flight Simulator, Magnetic Anomaly Detector, Training Service Contracts; Gene Colabatistto Comments

    CAE has been awarded several contracts worth at least $91 million combined that cover training services, flight simulators and magnetic anomaly detectors for Lockheed Martin and two other defense customers. CAE USA will provide training services and perform courseware development work for the U.S. Air Force related to MQ-9 Reaper and MQ-1 Predator unmanned aircraft […] More

  • Marine Corps Issues 1st IOC for Lockheed F-35B Squadron; Jon Davis Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Marine Corps Issues 1st IOC for Lockheed F-35B Squadron; Jon Davis Comments

    The U.S. Marine Corps has designated a group of 10 Lockheed Martin-built F-35B fighter jets for initial operational capability to become the first military service branch to declare the plane ready for worldwide deployment. “(Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 121) has ten aircraft in the Block 2B configuration with the requisite performance envelope and weapons clearances, to include the training, […] More

  • Japan Weather Satellite Tracks Typhoon Maysak Through Exelis Imager - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Japan Weather Satellite Tracks Typhoon Maysak Through Exelis Imager

    Japan’s national weather agency has used an Exelis imaging instrument on the Himawari-8 weather satellite to collect weather and environmental images such as Typhoon Maysak and the clouds and snow around Mount Fuji. The company said Friday the imager works to support the satellite’s weather forecasting and tracking, fire detection, air pollution analysis, vegetation assessment and volcanic ash monitoring operations. Eric Webster, […] More

  • BAE Systems to Supply Aircraft Interrogators to US Navy, Japan for $8M - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Systems to Supply Aircraft Interrogators to US Navy, Japan for $8M

    BAE Systems‘ electronic systems business will provide 22 “identification friend or foe” interrogators to the U.S. Navy under an $8.5 million contract modification, Intelligent Aerospace reported Monday. John Keller writes that the company will supply its AN/UPX-41(C) digital interrogators to help surface ships and ground installations distinguish between friendly and enemy aircraft. The Navy will use 14 […] More

  • Boeing Buys Stake in SoftBank’s SATCOM JV; Craig Cooning, Mark Spiwak Comment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing Buys Stake in SoftBank’s SATCOM JV; Craig Cooning, Mark Spiwak Comment

    Boeing has purchased an equity stake in a SoftBank-backed joint venture that develops satellite-based disaster response communications concepts for Japan. SoftBank Satellite Planning Corp. will work to develop, assess and forward satellite concepts to Japan’s ministry of internal affairs and communications, Boeing said Monday. Craig Cooning, president of Boeing’s network and space systems business, said the company intends to […] More

  • Frost & Sullivan: Asian Shipyards Move Into Military Naval Vessels Market - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Frost & Sullivan: Asian Shipyards Move Into Military Naval Vessels Market

    Japan, South Korea and China are emerging as new manufacturing hubs for military naval vessels, a new report from Frost & Sullivan revealed. The analyst said Thursday that shipbuilding would remain a domain of Western Europe, the United States and Russia but that Asia-Pacific countries are tightening their hold on the market as they slowly start […] More

  • MacDonald, Dettwiler & Assoc. to Supply Mitsubishi Electric With Ku-/Ka-Band Antennas - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MacDonald, Dettwiler & Assoc. to Supply Mitsubishi Electric With Ku-/Ka-Band Antennas

    Japan-based Mitsubishi Electric has chosen MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates to provide Ku-band and Ka-band antenna subsystems as part of a new contract worth $10 million. MDA said Thursday that the antennas will equip a commercial telecommunications satellite as the company works to expand its multibeam communications portfolio in the Japanese market. MDA is a communications and information company that […] More

  • Marillyn Hewson: Lockheed to Support US-Japan Security, Growth, Sustainability Programs - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Marillyn Hewson: Lockheed to Support US-Japan Security, Growth, Sustainability Programs

    Lockheed Martin CEO Marillyn Hewson has said the company can help with security, growth and sustainability initiatives to maintain the partnership and collaboration between the U.S. and Japan. “[It] is our shared values, our collaboration and our commitment to each other that will allow us to overcome these challenges successfully,” she said in her U.S.-Japan Council conference keynote address published Friday. […] More

  • Report: MBDA, Mitsubishi Electric Explore Partnership to Develop F-35 Missiles - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: MBDA, Mitsubishi Electric Explore Partnership to Develop F-35 Missiles

    MBDA and Mitsubishi Electric are undertaking a preliminary deal to develop midrange missiles for the F-35 fighter jets as part of the Japanese government’s efforts to establish international defense procurement partnerships, Reuters reported Thursday. Tim Kelly and Nobuhiro Kubo report the deal would be the first to involve using Japanese-built parts for missile exports as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s administration continues […] More

  • Navy Receives Boeing-Built Poseidon Plane Number 14 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Receives Boeing-Built Poseidon Plane Number 14

    Boeing has delivered a 14th P-A Poseidon airplane to U.S. Navy as the branch seeks to bolster its sea patrolling capabilities, the company said Wednesday. The first Poseidon squadron deployed in Kadena, Japan last winter to carry out operational missions and a second squadron is scheduled to deploy later this summer, Boeing says. Navy Commander Tony Rossi, […] More

  • Symantec Appoints Adrian Jones SVP for Asia Pacific, Japan - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Symantec Appoints Adrian Jones SVP for Asia Pacific, Japan

    Symantec has named Adrian Jones senior vice president for its Asia Pacific and Japan operations, the Times of India reported Friday. The Times of India said that Jones will be responsible for growing Symantec’s market position and presence in the region while leading business operations and development. Jones has held executive positions with technology companies […] More