CAE will continue to support a Canadian air force-run military flight training program for NATO and allied air forces under a potential $228 million contract modification from Canada’s government. CAE said Thursday the modification extends the performance period of the company’s NATO Flying Training in Canada support contract to 2023 and includes an option that could further extend work through 2024. “Since acquiring the NFTC […] More

Joe Armstrong, formerly director of training and operational solutions at CAE, has been appointed vice president and general manager of the company’s defense and security business unit in Canada. He will oversee several programs such as the NATO Flying Training in Canada program, systems engineering support for the CF-18 fleet, Halifax Class Modernization initiative and […] More

A team of Samsung Electronics and Intelligent Decisions has been awarded a contract to supply tablet computers to the U.S. Air Force’s bases worldwide after the handheld passed the military service’s hardware and software tests for flight line use. Air Force technicians will use the Galaxy Tab S2 device to access digital technical orders, manuals and parts databases to perform aircraft […] More

Intelligent Decisions seeks to provide information technology infrastructure to the U.S. Army under the potential $5 billion Information Technology Enterprise Solutions 3 Hardware contract the service branch awarded in February. The company said Tuesday it will work to meet Army requirements for Unix-based and non-Unix-based servers, workstations, storage systems, networking equipment, network printers and scanners, cables and connectors, […] More

CAE has entered the production phase for its updated magnetic anomaly detection MAD-XR platform intended for helicopters, submarines, and other aircraft and naval vessels.

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General Atomics’ aeronautical systems business has partnered with CAE, L3 Technologies’ Wescam subsidiary and Maxar Technologies’ MDA business to form an industry team that aims to meet Canada’s requirements for multi-mission remotely piloted aircraft systems. Team SkyGuardian Canada will offer the MQ-9B SkyGuardian drone for the Canadian armed forces’ RPAS project that seeks a medium-altitude, long-endurance […] More

Iron Bow Technologies and Intelligent Decisions are among the companies included in The Channel Company‘s 2015 CRN Solution Provider 500, a list of information technology companies ranked based on sales revenue in 2014. Iron Bow said Tuesday it has climbed in rank from 44 last year to 39 this year, which is its fifth consecutive placement in […] More

Masten Space Systems has completed an environmental monitoring experiment that carried multiple technologies onboard a company-built reusable rocket. NASA said Thursday Masten Space Systems’ Xodiac rocket contained an electromagnetic field measurement experiment, called JANUS, from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. The company is one of six firms that provide suborbital reusable launch vehicle flight and payload integration services […] More