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  • Army Receives Initial Northrop-Made Common IR Countermeasure Systems; Carl Smith Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Receives Initial Northrop-Made Common IR Countermeasure Systems; Carl Smith Comments

    Northrop Grumman has shipped an initial batch of Common Infrared Countermeasure missile defense systems to the U.S. Army as part of an engineering and manufacturing development contract awarded in August 2015. The Army received the CIRCMs after the company completed software qualification tests to evaluate the system’s performance and compliance with program requirements, Northrop said Tuesday. CIRCM is designed to help protect rotary […] More

  • UK Dragonfire Consortium to Carry Out Laser Weapons Demonstrator Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    UK Dragonfire Consortium to Carry Out Laser Weapons Demonstrator Program

    Britain-based industrial team UK Dragonfire will conduct the Laser Directed Energy Weapons Capability Demonstrator under a potential $39.2 million deal with the U.K.’s ministry of defense. MBDA said Friday the group will look to mature the country’s high energy laser weapon systems capacity as well as technologies for a high energy defensive laser weapon system that can engage with targets […] More

  • Lockheed Delivers 30th Merlin Mk2 Helicopter to UK Military - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Delivers 30th Merlin Mk2 Helicopter to UK Military

    Lockheed Martin has delivered a 30th updated Merlin Mk2 helicopter to the U.K.’s military during a ceremony at a Leonardo facility in Yeovil, England. The delivery was part of a $985.2 million contract that required 30 Mk1 helicopters to be upgraded in support of the British navy, the company said Thursday. Each helicopter contains new radars, sonar systems, infrared cameras and large flat, […] More

  • General Dynamics Integrates Link 16 Datalink System on Leonardo-Finmeccanica Export Helicopter - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics Integrates Link 16 Datalink System on Leonardo-Finmeccanica Export Helicopter

    A U.K.-based General Dynamics subsidiary and the former AgustaWestland business unit of Leonardo-Finmeccanica have teamed up to develop and integrate a Link 16 datalink system into the first AW159 Wildcat helicopter export variant. General Dynamics said Thursday its missions systems business in the U.K. worked with Leonardo Helicopters to install the datalink and provide a full command-and-control surveillance system on the […] More

  • MBDA-Led Consortium to Demo Laser Capacity for UK Military - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MBDA-Led Consortium to Demo Laser Capacity for UK Military

    The U.K. military has selected MBDA to demonstrate a capacity to field laser-directed weapons that can potentially urge the country’s navy and other services to utilize similar systems, Defense News reported Sunday. Andrew Chuter writes MBDA leads a bid team called UK Dragonfire that includes BAE Systems, Leonardo-Finmeccanica, Marshall Defense and Aerospace and Qinetiq to develop a solid state high power demonstrator weapon […] More

  • Finmeccanica Unveils New E-Scan Airborne Surveillance Radar for UAVs - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Finmeccanica Unveils New E-Scan Airborne Surveillance Radar for UAVs

    Finmeccanica has added the Osprey airborne surveillance radar to its portfolio of electronically scanning radars in effort to offer a 360-degree field of view for different types of aircraft such as unmanned aerial vehicles. The company said Thursday Osprey radars are built with a flat-panel design to support installation into small platforms as well as the e-scan technology that works to deliver simultaneous coverage in […] More

  • Finmeccanica Shareholders Approve Name Change to 'Leonardo' - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Finmeccanica Shareholders Approve Name Change to ‘Leonardo’

    A near-unanimous majority of shareholders at Italy-based defense and industrial conglomerate Finmeccanica have approved the company’s proposal to officially change its name to Leonardo from Jan. 1, 2017 after the famous scientist Leonardo Da Vinci. Finmeccanica said Thursday it will operate under the name Leonardo-Finmeccanica through Dec. 31, 2016 in an effort to facilitate continuity of relationships with other […] More