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  • Saab Lands $147M Swedish Corvette Ship Upgrade Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Saab Lands $147M Swedish Corvette Ship Upgrade Contract

    Saab has secured a potential $147.3 million contract from the Swedish Defense Materiel Administration to carry out modification and upgrade work on Gavle-class corvettes for the Swedish marine. The contract covers life-extension services to HMS Gavle and HMS Sundsvall and a general inspection after both vessels have been in service for six years, Saab said Friday. Gunnar Wieslander, […] More

  • Report: Lockheed Drops Plans to Join Navy Over-the-Horizon Missile Devt Competition - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Lockheed Drops Plans to Join Navy Over-the-Horizon Missile Devt Competition

    Lockheed Martin has decided not to bid on a U.S. Navy contract to develop an over-the-horizon missile for the service branch’s frigates and littoral combat ships, Defense News reported Wednesday. Lockheed’s decision came after Boeing decided to withdraw from the Over-the-Horizon Weapon System competition earlier this month. “As the current OTH-WS request for proposal process refined […] More

  • Saab Adds New Features to Swordfish Maritime Patrol Aircraft; Gary Shand Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Saab Adds New Features to Swordfish Maritime Patrol Aircraft; Gary Shand Comments

    Saab has added new mission equipment and expanded the operational payload capacity of its multi-role aircraft offering so as to support a full range of real-world maritime missions. The company said Tuesday recent developments on the Swordfish maritime patrol aircraft include capacities to carry six lightweight torpedoes, the RBS15 anti-ship missile and combinations of torpedo variants. The Swordfish […] More

  • Army Tests Saab-Built Mobile Camouflage System on Fighting Vehicles - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Tests Saab-Built Mobile Camouflage System on Fighting Vehicles

    The U.S. Army‘s 2nd Cavalry Regiment has begun a field evaluation of a Saab-developed mobile camouflage system as part of operational training activities in Hohenfels, Germany. Saab said Friday the service branch is testing Barracuda MCS on Stryker fighting vehicles with NATO allies that support Operation Atlantic Resolve and the Enhanced Forward Presence missions. MCS offers multi-spectral signature management properties designed to help […] More

  • Sweden to Consider Boeing-Saab Trainer Aircraft Contingent Upon USAF T-X Contract Win - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sweden to Consider Boeing-Saab Trainer Aircraft Contingent Upon USAF T-X Contract Win

    Sweden would consider buying the trainer aircraft from a team composed of Boeing and Saab to replace its aging fleet of trainer jets if both companies land the T-X contract with the U.S. Air Force, Defense News reported Monday. Col. Magnus Liljegren, head of Sweden’s air force department, told reporters during a Monday briefing in Stockholm that […] More

  • Boeing, Saab Test-Fly 2nd Joint T-X Model Aircraft - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing, Saab Test-Fly 2nd Joint T-X Model Aircraft

    A team comprised of Boeing and Saab has flown a second production-ready aircraft that both companies built for the U.S. Air Force‘s T-X trainer competition. Boeing said Monday its T-X aircraft model completed a one-hour flight test that demonstrated  the key features and performance of the platform. The Boeing-Saab alliance completed the first flight of an initial trainer offering for the Air Force in December. “This aircraft was built to Air Force requirements […] More

  • Report: Boeing Ends Belgium F-16 Replacement Contract Pursuit - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Boeing Ends Belgium F-16 Replacement Contract Pursuit

    Boeing has decided not to submit a proposal for Belgium’s recapitalization program that seeks to replace the country’s fleet of Lockheed Martin-built F-16 jets, FlightGlobal reported Wednesday. “We regret that after reviewing the request we do not see an opportunity to compete on a truly level playing field with the… F/A-18 Super Hornet,” the company said […] More

  • Saab to Provide EW Self-Protection, Countermeasures Tech to German Air Force - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Saab to Provide EW Self-Protection, Countermeasures Tech to German Air Force

    NATO’s Eurofighter 2000 and Tornado aircraft management agency has ordered electronic warfare self-protection and countermeasure systems from Saab on behalf of Germany’s air force. Saab said April 11 it will manufacture 29 units of the BOZ-101 EC self-protection and countermeasure system for the German air force at the company’s facilities in Jarfalla, Sweden and Centurion, South Africa. The BOZ wing-mounted pod […] More

  • Northrop-Built Electromagnetic Simulation Tech to Support Saab Gripen Aircraft Test - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop-Built Electromagnetic Simulation Tech to Support Saab Gripen Aircraft Test

    Northrop Grumman‘s Amherst Systems subsidiary has supplied Saab with a combat electromagnetic environment simulator to aid in testing of the Gripen JAS 39 fighter aircraft in Sweden. Northrop said Wednesday the CEESIM system is equipped with an advanced pulse generator and designed to generate digital models of active electronically scanned array antennas. Saab will use the simulator to test the company’s Gripen multirole […] More

  • Report: Belgium Issues F-16 Fighter Aircraft Replacement RFPs - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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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