Avcorp Industries has received a contract from Lockheed Martin to continue to manufacture composite wing skin, nacelle and body access panels for the F-35 program. The contract will extend Avcorp’s work on composite F-35 panels at a company facility in Gardenia, California, through 2020, Avcorp said Tuesday. Lockheed awarded Avcorp a firm order in mid-April to provide paint preparation and installation services […] More

Computer Sciences Corp. will provide a range of information technology services for BAE Systems‘ U.K. and Saudi Arabia operations under a $600 million agreement between the two companies. CSC said Tuesday the IT outsourcing deal will run through November 2021 and covers contact center, end user compute, mainframe, physical/virtual servers, storage, networking, project services and application maintenance support. “We are delighted to […] More

Finmeccanica subsidiary DRS Technologies has landed a $51 million subcontract from General Dynamics to provide support services for the U.K. armed forces’ tactical command, control, communications, computers and intelligence system. DRS said Monday it will provide rugged tactical displays, rugged computing technology upgrades, and associated services for the General Dynamics-supported Bowman tactical communications system that works to support secure radio, telephone, […] More

BAE Systems has partnered with Japan’s Daicel Corp. to offer cockpit airbags for U.S. Army helicopters in a push to establish military and industrial ties with Tokyo, Reuters reported Monday. Tim Kelly and Nobuhiro Kubo write that the partnership with the British defense contractor also works to build on Japan’s military exports following the repeal of a […] More

Boeing has teamed up with the University of British Columbia, SkyNRG and Canada’s aviation industry to produce sustainable biofuel out of forest waste, Aerospace Technology reported Friday. UBC and NORAM Engineering and Constructors will lead the consortium’s effort to convert leftover branches and sawdust into fuel, according to the report. “Sustainable aviation biofuel will play […] More

CGI and Unit4 have signed a partnership agreement for the companies to jointly provide an integrated enterprise resource planning service to public sector customers in North America. The team will first focus on public sector industries in Western Canada that implement Unit4’s Business World ERP offering, Unit4 said Monday. Tony Dellaviola, CGI’s regional vice president for British Columbia, […] More

Lockheed Martin has completed a demonstration flight with the goal of testing the company’s open mission systems payloads for the U.S. Air Force. The company integrated multiple radios and waveforms into a U-2 Dragon Lady to facilitate communications relay between an F-22, F-18s and a long-range antiship missile surrogate platform, Lockheed Martin said Wednesday. “This […] More

Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, a senior vice president at Inmarsat, oversees direction and policy functions for the British satellite services provider’s U.S. government business unit. The nearly three-decade aerospace and defense veteran is also a former member of the Senior Executive Service and served as a program executive officer at the Defense Information Systems Agency before she entered the private […] More