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Triumph Group has secured a $17.3M delivery order from the Defense Logistics Agency to supply updated digital electronic control units for two U.S. Army helicopter fleets.

Boeing has received a 22-month, $54.5M contract modification from the U.S. Army to supply retrofit packages for the Apache multirole combat helicopter.

A joint venture between Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin has concluded a second test and evaluation of a fire control radar designed for AH-64E Apache attack helicopters. LONGBOW LLC demonstrated the AN/APG-78 FCR technology with single target tracking, maritime mode and 360-degree surveillance features, Northrop said Tuesday.

Lockheed Martin has released the newest iteration of the company’s training tool, a visualization platform, that was designed for maintainers of Apache helicopter sensors.

Lockheed Martin will provide night vision sensor systems for Apache attack helicopters under a potential $79.4M modification to a previously awarded contract with the U.S. Army. The company will also offer technical services and produce subcomponents for the aircraft, the Defense Department said Monday. Army Contracting Command will determine funds …

Textron’s Bell subsidiary has conducted a flight demonstration of its proposed offering for the U.S. Army’s Future Vertical Lift program, the Dallas Morning News reported Friday. The pilots flew the V-280 Valor tiltrotor aircraft on Thursday at Bell’s flight research center in Arlington, Va., 10 months after the plane made its initial flight …

Boeing and its clients will present the company’s current and future products and services at an international airshow to be held from July 16 to 22 in the U.K. The company said Monday its participation in the 2018 Farnborough International Airshow will include flight and static displays of its commercial …

Lockheed Martin is set to commence low-rate initial production of the Joint Air-to-Ground Missile after the Defense Department granted a “milestone C” decision on the system. DoD’s defense acquisition board announced through a memorandum the LRIP approval for the JAGM program after months of flight tests that evaluated the missile technology against performance envelope and …

Boeing has delivered eight AH-64E Apache attack helicopters to the Indonesia’s army as part of a foreign military sales transaction, Defenseworld.net reported Thursday. Ryamizard Ryacudu, Indonesian defense minister, said the Apache units will aid national efforts to protect sovereignty against potential threats. A turn-over ceremony occurred Wednesday at a military base located at …

A subsidiary of Elbit Systems‘ U.S. business has received a four-year, $12.6 million contract to supply Apache aviator integrated helmets and related spare parts to the U.S. Army. EFW is scheduled to complete work under the firm-fixed-price contract by Jan. 31, 2022, the Defense Department said Tuesday. The Army Contracting Command received one bid for the …

A Saudi Arabia-based joint venture between Boeing, Alsalam Aircraft and Saudia Aerospace Engineering Industries will offer maintenance, repair and overhaul support for the country’s fleet of rotorcraft aircraft, Defense News reported Tuesday. Neil Bevan, CEO of the Saudi Rotorcraft Support Company, said work under the contract will cover support for …

The U.S. Army looks to adopt high-energy laser technology for the service branch’s fixed-wing and rotocraft aircraft platforms, Flightglobal reported Wednesday. “It’s a capability we’re interested in,” Col. Joe Hoecherl, Army Apache program manager, was quoted as saying. Ben Allison, HEL product lead at Raytheon, told Flightglobal the company aims to help address the …

Robert Kleppinger, a senior client partner at IBM responsible for federal government contracts, told Data Center Dynamics in an interview published Tuesday how the company plans to apply its Watson cognitive computing system to the U.S. Army’s maintenance and logistics activities under a $135 million recompete contract. “Ideally, the plan is to bring …

L3 Technologies will develop manned-unmanned teaming hardware to aid the U.S. Army‘s AH-64 Apache multirole helicopters as part of a one-year, $69.3 million contract. The Defense Department said Thursday the cost-plus-fixed-fee, firm-fixed-price contract also covers technical and engineering support services. The Army Contracting Command will solicited and received one bid for the procurement effort. …

Singapore’s air force has installed Elbit Systems-made defense electronics suite on its fleet of Boeing-built AH-64 Apache and CH-47 Chinook helicopters as part of an effort to boost aircraft survivability and mission capacity, Defense News reported. A spokesperson from the Singaporean defense ministry said the upgrade effort covers electronic warfare and satellite …