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  • Babcock-Led Team to Pursue UK Light Frigate Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Babcock-Led Team to Pursue UK Light Frigate Program

    A Babcock-led industry team will vie for the British defense ministry’s $1.7 billion Type 31e general purpose light frigate program. Babcock said Monday the Team 31 industry group includes Thales, BMT, Harland & Wolff and Ferguson Marine. Team 31 will build on the achievements of the Aircraft Carrier Alliance — a partnership of Babcock, BAE Systems, […] More

  • BAE Marks F-35 Component Production Milestone - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Marks F-35 Component Production Milestone

    BAE Systems has accomplished 10 percent of its global production requirement under the F-35 Lightning II fighter aircraft program. BAE said Wednesday the milestone was reached when the company delivered the 318th aft fuselage for an F-35 aircraft from its Samlesbury, Lancashire-based manufacturing facility to Lockheed Martin‘s final assembly and check out line in Fort Worth, Texas. Lockheed will […] More

  • Leonardo-Hensoldt Team Eyes International Market for Mode 5 ‘Friend or Foe’ ID Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leonardo-Hensoldt Team Eyes International Market for Mode 5 ‘Friend or Foe’ ID Platform

    Leonardo and Hensoldt, formerly Airbus’ electronics and border security business, have agreed to partner to market the former’s Mode 5 identification friend-or-foe system to potential customers worldwide. The U.K. defense ministry has selected the Leonardo-Hensoldt team, also known as Team Skytale, to update IFF systems on at least 400 aerial, maritime and ground vehicles, Leonardo said […] More

  • BAE-Built 3D Radar Completes Sea Trials Aboard UK Type 23 Frigates - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE-Built 3D Radar Completes Sea Trials Aboard UK Type 23 Frigates

    A BAE Systems-built radar system has completed three years of sea-based trials on the U.K. navy’s Type 23 frigates and has been integrated onto a Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carrier, landing platform dock assault ship and landing platform helicopter assault ship. BAE said Wednesday it has also installed the company’s Artisan 3D radar at the U.K. ministry of defense’s land-based test site in Portsmouth, […] More

  • BAE Systems Conducts 1,000th F-35 Vertical Landing - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Systems Conducts 1,000th F-35 Vertical Landing

    BAE Systems has completed the 1,000th vertical landing of a Lockheed Martin-built F-35B as part of an ongoing flight test program. BAE said Friday Peter Wilson – lead test pilot for the short takeoff and vertical landing variant of the F-35 — performed the landing at Naval Air Station Patuxent River six years after BAE pilot Graham Tomlinson conducted the first vertical landing. “Every day, […] More