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Boeing has received a $48.9 million delivery order to provide retrofit kits for the F/A-18 Hornet jets of the U.S. Navy and Australia. The order will support an engineering change proposal under the combat aircraft’s trailing edge flap retrofit redesign program, the Defense Department said Monday. DoD noted the full obligated amount at the time of award […] More

A Huntington Ingalls Industries subsidiary has been awarded a $37.8 million delivery order by the U.S. Navy to conduct special selected restricted availability work on a Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser ship. The Defense Department said Monday HII subsidiary Continental Maritime of San Diego will provide depot-level maintenance, alteration and modification services to update military and technical systems of the Navy’s USS […] More

General Dynamics‘ mission systems business unit has produced and delivered its 10,000th air traffic control radio to the Federal Aviation Administration under the agency’s NEXCOM 2 modernization program. The company said Friday the CM-300/350 voice over internet protocol radios were designed to offer communication capacity for air traffic controllers and pilots who operate within the National Airspace System. […] More

The U.S. Army plans to conduct a competition to find a replacement for its Patriot radar system through the Lower-Tier Air-and-Missile Defense Sensor program, Defense News reported Friday. Dan O’Boyle, an Army spokesman, said the service branch plans to begin the Milestone A phase, also known as technology maturation and risk reduction, in fiscal 2018 […] More

Strategic Mission Systems has secured a seven-year, $73.1 million contract to provide national and nuclear communications support for the U.S. Air Force‘s fleet of E-4B command-and-control aircraft. The Defense Department said Friday the contract covers management, engineering services, field service representatives, facilities operations and management, software engineering services and material support. Work will occur at Offutt Air Force […] More

The State Department is close to approving the sale of 22 General Atomics-built MQ-9B Guardian unmanned aircraft systems to India, Defense News reported Friday. India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to meet President Donald Trump Monday as part of his U.S. trip and is expected to discuss the foreign military sales deal with Trump, […] More

General Dynamics‘ Electric Boat subsidiary has received $85 million in contract funds from the U.S. Navy to obtain additional long-lead time materials for the construction of two Virginia-class submarines for fiscal year 2019. The Defense Department said Friday the contract modification covers materials for the steam and electric plant components of SSN 802 and SSN 803 along with main […] More

The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory has teamed up with IBM to build a supercomputing platform designed to facilitate information discovery and neural network learning. The brain-inspired supercomputer will run on the IBM TrueNorth Neurosynaptic System’s 64-chip array and will have sensory processing and pattern recognition functionalities equivalent to 16 billion synapses and 64 million […] More

BAE Systems delivered the first of 12 Eurofighter Typhoon combat jets built for the air force of Oman during a ceremony held Wednesday at the country’s Adam military base. The company said Friday the delivery follows an official roll-out of Oman’s Typhoon unit alongside a Hawk jet trainer at a company facility in Warton, England, in May. Oman […] More