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  • Northrop's Jeffrey Palombo Showcases Open-Architecture Avionics System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop’s Jeffrey Palombo Showcases Open-Architecture Avionics System

    Northrop Grumman has exhibited an integrated avionics system built to help develop configurable aircraft in the future. The company showcased its newest avionics equipment and highlighted other C4ISR initiatives during a National Press Club briefing, Northrop said Wednesday. Jeffrey Palombo, vice president and general manager of Northrop’s land and self protection systems division, said airplanes need open architecture design of sensors, surveillance equipment […] More

  • Insitu Refreshes ScanEagle UAV Platform; Ryan Hartman Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Insitu Refreshes ScanEagle UAV Platform; Ryan Hartman Comments

    Insitu, a Boeing subsidiary, has upgraded its ScanEagle unmanned aerial vehicle platform. ScanEagle 2 features a reciprocating internal combustion propulsion system that is built for small UAS, Insitu said Wednesday. “ScanEagle 2 will shepherd us into the next two decades as we focus on reliability and affordability and enter the civil/commercial market,” said Ryan Hartman, Insitu president and […] More

  • BAE Updates Royal Air Force’s Typhoon Fighter Jets; Martin Taylor Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Updates Royal Air Force’s Typhoon Fighter Jets; Martin Taylor Comments

    BAE Systems has rolled out updates to the Royal Air Force’s fighter aircraft, bringing the fleet into operational service. The company said Friday it upgraded the Typhoon fighter’s computing power, weapons systems integration and sensor suites to help RAF achieve its air-to-air and air-to-surface mission requirements. “We have delivered a capability with all the necessary training and support to […] More

  • Northrop Triton UAS Completes Cross-Country Flight Test - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Triton UAS Completes Cross-Country Flight Test

    A Northrop Grumman-built unmanned aircraft system of the U.S. Navy has arrived at the Naval Air Station Patuxent River in Maryland after an 11-hour test flight between Palmdale, Calif. and Pax River. The MQ-4C Triton aircraft will go through a series of sensor integration flights after it is outfitted with a sensor system at Pax River,  Northrop said Thursday. A joint team […] More

  • Rod Meranda: Boeing to Build Air Force Surveillance Aircraft for 30-Year Lifespan - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rod Meranda: Boeing to Build Air Force Surveillance Aircraft for 30-Year Lifespan

    Boeing seeks to increase the engine power of its 737 aircraft over the coming years as it looks to replace the U.S. Air Force‘s joint surveillance target attack radar system aircraft, Defense News reported Monday. Aaron Mehta writes that Boeing has determined that the 737 airframe requires a 10-member crew, an extra seat and two pilots to fulfill operational demands […] More

  • Lockheed Demos LVC Training Tool in F-16 Simulator; Jon Rambeau Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Demos LVC Training Tool in F-16 Simulator; Jon Rambeau Comments

    Lockheed Martin has demonstrated its live, virtual and constructive training platform at the company’s aeronautics facility in Fort Worth, Texas. An F-16 pilot collaborated with a pilot that flew as a wingman in a ground-based F-16 simulator to engage simulated targets and counter simulated ground surface missiles in real time, Lockheed said Monday. “LVC is the future of effective training for operational […] More

  • MarketsandMarkets: ATC Equipment Sector's Value to Reach $5.5B by 2020 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MarketsandMarkets: ATC Equipment Sector’s Value to Reach $5.5B by 2020

    MarketsandMarkets has released a new report that projects the air traffic control equipment market to be worth approximately $5.5 billion in 2020. The report, which analyzes the market’s growth by geography and country between 2014 and 2020, indicates that the air traffic market will double in value over the next 15 years, MarketsandMarkets said Thursday. Airport construction projects […] More

  • Northrop UAS Duo Logs 100K Combat Support Hours; Jim Culmo Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop UAS Duo Logs 100K Combat Support Hours; Jim Culmo Comments

    Two Northrop Grumman-built unmanned aircraft systems have achieved more than 100,000 flight hours combined for two separate U.S. Air Force and Navy operations. The Air Force flew the Global Hawk fleet for more than 88 percent of the mission’s flight hours while the Navy’s Broad Area Maritime Surveillance demonstrator accounted for the remaining hours, Northrop […] More

  • John Shannon: Boeing Eyes 2016 Delivery of NASA ISS Docking System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    John Shannon: Boeing Eyes 2016 Delivery of NASA ISS Docking System

    Boeing will move forward on its work to build a fresh docking system for the International Space Station following completion of the technology’s critical design review. The company will design the NASA Docking System Block-1 to lock current and emerging aircraft system to the ISS’ docking adaptor, Boeing said Tuesday. “With this milestone, our team remains on […] More

  • Lydia Hyde: BAE Develops Microsensors for Aircraft Structural Health Monitoring - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lydia Hyde: BAE Develops Microsensors for Aircraft Structural Health Monitoring

    A team of BAE Systems engineers is experimenting with an aircraft system designed to employ thousands of microsensors to detect external temperatures as well as damage to airplane structure. The company’s Advanced Technology Centre developed the “smart skin” technology with the goal of making aircraft screen itself for physical strain or identify structural issues before […] More

  • Air Force Used Cobham In-Flight Refueling Tool for South Sudan Rescue Mission - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Used Cobham In-Flight Refueling Tool for South Sudan Rescue Mission

    Cobham’s air-to-air refueling system has worked to facilitate in-flight refueling for three Bell–Boeing CV-22 Osprey aircraft of the U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command under attack during a rescue mission in South Sudan. The CV-22s sustained substantial system damages from attacks by hostile forces after the AFSOC rescue team tried to leave a UN compound […] More

  • Marillyn Hewson: Lockheed Eyes 20% Mark for Int'l Sales - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Marillyn Hewson: Lockheed Eyes 20% Mark for Int’l Sales

    Lockheed Martin CEO Marillyn Hewson has described her company’s investments in emerging products and technologies that aim to help clients address affordability requirements in an interview with Defense News published Sunday. She also outlined Lockheed’s push to expand its business worldwide in the Q&A with Defense News Editor Vago Muradian. “We are driving to grow our international business. It is now 18 percent of our […] More