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NTT Data has secured a potential seven-year, $533.7 million to operate the automated fare collection system in Australia’s state of Victoria. The company said Monday it helped Public Transport Victoria build and implement the myki smart card ticketing system across the state’s regional and metropolitan centers in December 2008. Myki is designed to manage as many as 400 million passenger trips via trains, […] More

Norway could purchase five to six units of a Boeing-built maritime surveillance aircraft as the country seeks to expand its military cooperation with the U.S., Reuters reported Monday. Andrea Shalal writes U.S. Navy Rear Adm. Dean Peters, program executive officer for anti-submarine warfare, assault and special missions programs, has asked potential P-8 Poseidon customers to place orders by summer 2017. Peters has indicated […] More

Xerox‘s PARC subsidiary has received funds from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to support a program designed to develop a prototype autonomous air vehicle that delivers small payloads and “vanishes” upon completing the mission. PARC said Monday it will work with AeroVironment to create specialized materials for an autonomous air delivery system under a project within DARPA’s Inbound, Controlled, Air‐Releasable, […] More

Textron‘s weapon and sensor systems business and Thales have launched a Fury guided glide weapon from a tactical unmanned aircraft system to engage static vehicle targets as part of a test at the U.S. Army‘s Yuma Proving Ground. The team released Fury from a Textron-built Shadow TUAS, after which the weapon performed a global positioning system guided fly-out maneuver, transitioned […] More

Raytheon, in collaboration with the U.S. Air Force, has started a new round of flight tests on the Small Diameter Bomb II seeker missile, which comes with additional modes for coordinated attack and laser illuminated attack. The team tested SDB II against fixed and moving targets in a number of tactical scenarios in efforts to update the missile’s […] More

Thales Alenia Space will provide nine more pressurized cargo modules for future International Space Station resupply missions onboard Orbital ATK’s Cygnus spacecraft under a new contract between the two companies. The companies inked the contract at the Farnborough International Airshow in the U.K. for the transportation of crew supplies and science experiments to ISS, Orbital ATK said Monday. […] More

The U.K. defense ministry has selected Airbus to provide data protection technology for the British version of the Lockheed Martin-built F-35 fighter jet and other military aircraft, Defense News reported Sunday. Andrew Chuter writes the Airbus local key management system technology will work to store, protect and distribute encrypted data on F-35, Airbus-built Voyager A330 inflight […] More

Cubic Corp. has been awarded a three-year, $1.4 million subcontract extension award from UAV Tactical Systems to provide additional Tactical Common Data Links for the U.K. defense ministry of defense’s Watchkeeper Unmanned Aircraft System program. The TCDL is a wireless connection system designed to facilitate image and data transfers from UAS platforms to ground control stations through digital signal processing […] More

Finland-based aerospace company Patria has awarded an Esterline subsidiary a contract to update the cockpit avionics platform onboard the Finnish air force’s fleet of BAE Systems-built Hawk trainer aircraft. Esterline CMC Electronics will integrate its Cockpit 4000 glass-based avionics suite with seven Hawk Mk51 planes under the contract, Esterline said Monday. The Cockpit 4000 avionics platform […] More

Leonardo-Finmeccanica has introduced a dual role model of the M-346 trainer, developed by the Italian conglomerate’s subsidiary Alenia Aermacchi, and expects the new aircraft to enter service in 2018, Defense News reported Sunday. Tom Kington writes the M-346FT trainer is designed to shift between pilot training application and combat operations. The aircraft incorporates a new tactical datalink and five hard points […] More

An ICF International subsidiary has received a possible 4-year, $18 million communication framework service contract in support of the European Commission’s Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises. The company said Monday its ICF Mostra will work to develop and implement communication strategies in line with online and offline communication trends for EASME and the Directorates General for climate action, […] More

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded Northrop Grumman a potential $7.2 million contract modification to begin work on the second phase of the Supply Chain Hardware Integrity for Electronics Defense program. The modification exercises the initial option to a previously awarded contract with a 21-month base term and brings the total contract value from $12.3 million […] More