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Bell V-280 Valor Selected for Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft Competition
FORT WORTH, Texas --- Bell Textron Inc. has been selected as a project agreement holder for the competitive demonstration and risk reduction (CD&RR) effort as part of the U.S. Army’s Future Long Range

Airbus Suspends Production in France and Spain, Shares Slide
PARIS --- Airbus announced plans to halt operations at its plants in France and Spain for four days as the coronavirus crisis spread from battered airlines to the manufacturing sector. The most ser

GAO on F-35: ALIS in the Looking-Glass
The F-35 is the most modern fighter jet in the world. It’s the Department of Defense’s most ambitious and costly weapon system. It’s also supposed to be one of the smartest. It runs on the Autonomi

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Bell V-280 Valor Selected for Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft Competition
FORT WORTH, Texas --- Bell Textron Inc. has been selected as a project agreement holder for the competitive demonstration and risk reduction (CD&RR) effort as part of the U.S. Army’s Future Long Range...

Airbus Suspends Production in France and Spain, Shares Slide
PARIS --- Airbus announced plans to halt operations at its plants in France and Spain for four days as the coronavirus crisis spread from battered airlines to the manufacturing sector. The most ser...

GAO on F-35: ALIS in the Looking-Glass
The F-35 is the most modern fighter jet in the world. It’s the Department of Defense’s most ambitious and costly weapon system. It’s also supposed to be one of the smartest. It runs on the Autonomi...

Pratt Wins $320M Order for F-35 Engines
United Technologies Corp., Pratt and Whitney Engines, East Hartford, Connecticut, is awarded a $319,792,357 modification (P00018) to a previously awarded, firm-fixed-price, fixed-price-incentive-fee, ...

North Korea May Test More Advanced ICBM
North Korea's recent engine testing suggests the regime may be ready to test a more advanced intercontinental ballistic missile that could pose a greater threat to the United States, a U.S. general sa...

Hyundai Heavy Wins Order for Korean Navy Frigate
Hyundai Heavy Industries, the world’s largest shipbuilder in terms of the value of orders last year, said Monday that it has won a 400 billion-won ($330 million) order to build a frigate for the Korea...

CACI Wins $249M Task Order to Support US Africa Command
ARLINGTON, Va. --- CACI International Inc announced it has been awarded a six-year single-award task order, with a ceiling value of nearly $249 million, to provide operations, planning, and training s...

UK’s Dstl Acquires First Fleet of Autonomous Ground Vehicle Systems
Autonomous delivery of vital supplies to the front-line with improved efficiency and reduced risk to life moves another step closer to reality as the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) a...

Naval Group Sees New Milestone for Australian Sub Program
Contracts for the design of the Main Storage Batteries Stages 1 and 2 for the Attack Class submarines have been awarded, another major milestone for the program. PMB Defence, based in Adelaide and ...

US Army Has Lousy Track Record in Buying New Fighting Vehicle
It doesn’t fly. It doesn’t float. It fights firmly situated on the ground. And get this: It isn’t even a tank. So why does the Army keep spinning its treads in its efforts to buy an armored fighting v...

GAO Doubts Strategy for Redesigning F-35’s ALIS IT Backbone
The Autonomic Logistics Information System (ALIS) is integral to supporting the F-35 fighter jet's operations and maintenance. F-35 personnel at 5 locations GAO visited agreed that ALIS is performing ...

Rafale Going Well But Dassault Faces Bizjet Uncertainty
After a stellar 2019, COVID-19 cast global markets into a period of uncertainty as it moved across the globe in early 2020. The impact of the virus has yet to be felt on manufacturers, but delivery ...

DoD Summit Promotes Robotics in Maintenance and Repair
ARLINGTON, Va. --- Inspecting fuel and ballast tanks. Sand-blasting old paint coatings and applying new ones. Removing corrosion on ships, submarines, aircraft and other vehicles. These are some of...

British Commandos Launch Surprise Raids on Norway Coastline
Royal Marines have surprised ‘enemy forces’ by launching a series of daring raids on the Norwegian coastline during demanding winter exercises. Deep within the Arctic Circle, the first objective of...

Future USS Black Successfully Completes Acceptance Trials
PASCAGOULA, Miss. --- The future USS Delbert D. Black (DDG 119) successfully completed acceptance trials on March 12, returning to Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII), Ingalls Shipbuilding Division af...

India Continues Efforts to Boost Defense Sector
The efforts made by Government to boost country’s defence sector during the last two years are as follows: --Industrial licensing: Industrial licensing regime for Indian manufacturers in Defence ...

Australian Submarine Makes Inaugural Visit to Brunei
It was a significant occasion in early March for the crew of HMAS Dechaineux as it was the first official port visit conducted by any submarine - from any nation - to the southeast Asian nation. Th...

Russian Soyuz 2 Launches Glonass-M Satellite
On Monday, March 16, at 21: 28 (Moscow time), a successful launch of a medium-class "Soyuz-2.1B" rocket carrier with a "Glonass-M" navigation spacecraft was carried out from the launcher No. 4 of the ...

Boeing Optimistic But Takes Steps to Cope with Virus Outbreak
CHICAGO --- Boeing has issued updated guidance directing all employees who are able to perform their work from home effectively to telecommute until further notice. Some Boeing sites were already part...

COVID-19: Guiana Space Center Suspends Launch Campaigns
Because of the Covid-19 pandemic, and the need to fully implement the measures decided by the French government, launch campaigns underway at the Guiana Space Center (CSG) in French Guiana have been s...

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