CAE is offering new aviation courses including refreshers and upset prevention and recovery training at its facility in Dothan, Ala. The company said Monday its new offerings include five-day and three-day courses for the C-12/King Air B200, as well as UPRT in collaboration with aviation training company Aviation Performance Solutions.

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Lockheed Martin is in discussions with Israeli Aerospace Industries' Elta Systems subsidiary to jointly develop a radar technology for an upcoming U.S. Army demonstration event at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, Defense News reported Saturday.

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More than 375 V-22 Osprey tiltrotors, built by a Boeing-Bell Helicopter joint venture, have recorded more than 450K flight hours in support of multiple missions worldwide to date.

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Autonomous technology developer ThayerMahan has partnered with WingmanAI to develop artificial intelligence platforms for potential use in maritime and defense operations.

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Airbus’ helicopter manufacturing division has joined the U.S. Army's Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft competition seeking a new armed scout rotorcraft to replace the service's retired fleet of Bell OH-58 Kiowa Warriors, Flightglobal reported Wednesday.

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Techstars and Starburst have launched a new accelerator program that seeks to help startups developing space-based technologies and other related platforms. Matt Kozlov, former head of the Cedars Sinai Accelerator, will serve as managing director of the Los Angeles-based Techstars Starburst Space Accelerator program, Techstars said Tuesday.

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Northrop Grumman's fourth-generation airborne targeting pod has reached the mark of 1M flight hours with military aircraft platforms since the system was fielded in 2012.

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Tony Moraco, CEO of Science Applications International Corp., told The Washington Post in an interview published Sunday the added scale brought by the $2.5B acquisition of Engility allows SAIC to go after larger business opportunities and new markets in the federal government. “This allows us within this market to pursue and deliver on larger-scale contracts, predominantly in the space and intelligence markets, as well as mission assurance and spaceflight,” he said of the transaction.

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The U.S. Navy told Congress its plans to buy two Ford-class aircraft carriers in an effort to save billions of dollars as the military service pursues its 355-ship fleet goal, Reuters reported Tuesday. The service branch approached Huntington Ingalls Industries last year to obtain a detailed pricing on the potential cost of a block buy. Sen. Tim […] More

L3 Technologies and AVX Aircraft Company have submitted a joint proposal to develop a prototype of the U.S. Army‘s Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft. The partnership intends to combine L3’s weapons, communications, sensor and system engineering offerings with AVX’ propulsion and coaxical rotor platforms in a bid to design an armed light attack and reconnaissance vehicle for the […] More

Science Applications International Corp. and IronArch Technology have entered into an agreement that allows the service-disabled, veteran-owned company to receive business guidance and counsel through the Department of Defense‘s protege-mentor program. SAIC will help IronArch pursue new business opportunities, establish a corporate infrastructure and implement cloud and cybersecurity technologies, the companies said in a joint statement released Monday. […] More

Endeavor Robotics is vying for a pair of U.S. Army programs to build robotic platforms that are intended to have plug-and-play and interoperable functions, Defense News reported Monday. The Massachusetts-based company will compete with QinetiQ North America under a a potential $429.1M engineering and manufacturing development contract for the Common Robot System-Individual. CRS-I is designed to have a sensor technology […] More