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  • FLIR to Produce Electro-Optical Sensors for USAF's Future MH-139 Helicopter Fleet - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    FLIR to Produce Electro-Optical Sensors for USAF’s Future MH-139 Helicopter Fleet

    Boeing has awarded FLIR Systems a $40M initial contract to provide an electro-optical/infrared surveillance sensor technology to the U.S. Air Force‘s UH-1N helicopter replacement program. FLIR said Wednesday it will supply the Star SAFIRE 380-HDc EO/IR system for integration onto the first four MH-139 helicopters that a Boeing-Leonardo team will build for the military service. MH-139 is based on Leonardo’s AW139 platform and designed to support training, […] More

  • Kratos Awarded USAF Aerial Gunnery Training Extension - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kratos Awarded USAF Aerial Gunnery Training Extension

    Kratos Defense and Security Solutions has received a task order from KBR‘s government services arm to continue providing simulated aerial gunnery training services to the U.S. Air Force for an additional year. KBRWyle awarded the order under an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for Kratos to train Air Force Global Strike Command’s special mission aviators to operate guns in the UH-1N helicopter […] More

  • Northrop Grumman Delivers Mission Computer Systems for Marine Corps Helicopter Upgrade Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Grumman Delivers Mission Computer Systems for Marine Corps Helicopter Upgrade Program

    Northrop Grumman has supplied its mission computer system to the U.S. Marine Corps in support of the service branch’s H-1 helicopter upgrade program. The company said Thursday the Tech Refresh Mission Computer was fielded onboard the UH-1Y and AH-1Z aircraft as part of the upgrade program which aims to replace UH-1N and AH-1W helicopters with […] More

  • Report: Air Force Reschedules Issuance of Final UH-1N Helicopter Replacement RFP - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Air Force Reschedules Issuance of Final UH-1N Helicopter Replacement RFP

    The U.S. Air Force has postponed the release of a final request for proposals on the military branch’s UH-1N Huey fleet replacement program to summer 2017, DoD Buzz reported Thursday. Oriana Pawlyk writes the interested bidders informed the Air Force that they could not meet baseline requirements outlined in the original draft RFP for the UH-1N Replacement Program. The service branch plans to issue a second draft RFP […] More

  • Air Force Seeks Industry Feedback on UH-1N Replacement Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Seeks Industry Feedback on UH-1N Replacement Program

    The Department of the Air Force has posted a request for information in search of industry feedback and comment on the service branch’s plan to replace its current UH-1N Huey fleet with an off-the-shelf helicopter. A FedBizOpps notice issued Friday says the Air Force intends to procure up to 84 new helicopters of the same configuration as the […] More