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Lockheed Martin and its partner Canadian UAVs have jointly demonstrated the capacity of a Lockheed-built quadrotor unmanned aerial system to examine pipeline and well assets as part of a beyond-visual-line-of-sight test flight. The team examined pipelines and wellheads at the Foremost Testing Range in Alberta, Canada, using an Indago 2 drone, Lockheed said Wednesday. The Indago 2 unit used in the mission was equipped with a […] More

NTT Data plans to launch in October a set of software tools designed help users remotely operate and facilitate airspace management for multiple unmanned aircraft systems. NTT Data’s airpalette UTM software package has the Flight Operation System designed to control drone operations and UAS Traffic Management core feature that works to help airspace managers carry out drone traffic […] More

Technical and Project Engineering has received a potential three-year, $45 million contract to continue provision of training resource modeling services to the U.S. Army. TAPE said Tuesday it will develop and distribute training resources across Army components that include the National Guard, reserve units, Forces Command, Special Operations Command and the Training and Doctrine Command. The company will also […] More

CyrusOne will deliver data center space and power to CSRA‘s government clients under a newly-forged partnership. Dallas, Texas-based CyrusOne said Wednesday it will serve as one of CSRA’s go-to-market data center providers under the agreement. Yogesh Khanna, CSRA chief technology officer, said the alliance lets CSRA rely on CyrusOne to run physical data centers that support the former’s […] More

Australia’s defense ministry has renewed a supply chain agreement with BAE Systems to continue to give Australian companies access to commercial and defense opportunities within BAE’s international business. The British defense contractor said Monday its Global Access Program has helped Australian firms secure export deals for products such as military vehicle restraint systems, ship evacuation equipment, precision components […] More

Anaren has received a potential $97 million order from Raytheon‘s integrated defense systems business unit to provide radio frequency beamforming assemblies needed for the production of the U.S. Navy‘s new air and missile defense radar. Anaren said Tuesday it obtained $31.5 million in initial contract funds to support the low rate initial production of the AN/SPY-6(V) AMDRs. The radar is designed […] More

Boeing and Triumph Group have entered an agreement to extend the latter’s support for the V-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft under a contract the joint venture of Bell Helicopter and Boeing is slated to negotiate with the U.S. Navy. Bell Boeing and the Navy will work out the third multi-year order for the V-22 program before the end of 2017, […] More

The Missile Defense Agency performed Tuesday a live-fire test of the Boeing-built Ground-Based Midcourse Defense system element of the U.S. ballistic missile defense platform. During the test, the GMD system helped guide a ground-based interceptor that launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California to zero in on an intercontinental ballistic missile target that lifted off from […] More

Lockheed Martin‘s Sikorsky subsidiary has completed a critical design review for the Combat Rescue Helicopter program that aims to replace the U.S. Air Force‘s HH-60G Pave Hawk aircraft. The CDR’s conclusion will move the HH-60W helicopter toward the assembly, evaluation and testing phase, Lockheed said Tuesday. A joint team of experts from Sikorsky and the Air Force’s helicopter program developed and evaluated […] More

The Defense Finance Accounting Service has awarded a $29.2 million contract to Grant Thornton and a $24.6 million contract to Cotton & Co. to respectively provide general fund and working capital fund audit services to the U.S. Special Operations Command and the U.S. Transportation Command. Each labor-hour contract has 19 base months and three one-year options, the Defense Department said Tuesday. DFAS […] More

Northrop Grumman has awarded Orbital ATK a potential five-year, $90 million contract to manufacture aircraft composite parts in support of the U.S. Air Force‘s B-2 Spirit aircraft modernization effort. Orbital ATK said Tuesday it will produce 17 hot trailing edge structures and provide non-recurring engineering services for B-2 bombers. The contract has an option for follow-on orders. Steve Earl, vice president and general manager of […] More