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  • BAE Invests in Australia Defense Tech R&D Network; Glynn Phillips Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Invests in Australia Defense Tech R&D Network; Glynn Phillips Comments

    BAE Systems plans invest up to $10 million over 10 years in a collaborative network that will work to facilitate development of technologies that can support the Australian military. BAE said Tuesday its Australian subsidiary partnered with the Universities of Adelaide and South Australia to establish the Joint Open Innovation Network with the goal to introduce university engineering scholarship, internship, job placement, defense-related courses […] More

  • BAE Starts Test-Bed Trials of Autonomous Air Technologies; Maureen Mccue Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Starts Test-Bed Trials of Autonomous Air Technologies; Maureen Mccue Comments

    BAE Systems has begun to test unmanned aircraft technologies in support of an industry-led effort to study how autonomous air vehicles can integrate into the U.K.’s airspace. BAE said Tuesday it uses a Jetstream 31 aircraft as a flying test bed for the ongoing trials at the company’s military aircraft engineering and manufacturing hub in Warton, England. The testing platform is built to fly […] More

  • Marine Corps Receives 1st BAE-Built Amphibious Combat Vehicle Prototype - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Marine Corps Receives 1st BAE-Built Amphibious Combat Vehicle Prototype

    BAE Systems handed over an amphibious, ship-launchable and ship-recoverable combat vehicle prototype to the U.S. Marine Corps during a ceremony held Tuesday at the company’s York, Pennsylvania-based facility. BAE said Tuesday its Amphibious Combat Vehicle 1.1 is designed to meet the Marine Corps’ force protection, water and land mobility, lethality, transportability and survivability requirements for a production-ready platform. The service branch […] More

  • BAE Systems' Australian Arm Awarded $70M Hobart-Class Air Warfare Destroyer Sustainment Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Systems’ Australian Arm Awarded $70M Hobart-Class Air Warfare Destroyer Sustainment Contract

    BAE Systems has received a five-year, $70 million contract from the Australian defense ministry for the sustainment of three Hobart Class Air Warfare Destroyer ships through their transition into service with the Australian navy. The company said Friday its Australian arm will oversee the supporting industry supply chain as well as provide asset management and related services to […] More

  • BAE Plans $508M Investment to Support UAV Integration Into UK Airspace - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Plans $508M Investment to Support UAV Integration Into UK Airspace

    BAE Systems will invest $508 million to revive an industry-led effort to establish regulations and technology for the integration of unmanned air vehicles into the U.K. national airspace, FlightGlobal reported Tuesday. Beth Stevenson writes the U.K. government’s business department previously funded the Autonomous Systems Technology Related Airborne Evaluation and Assessment program before it cancelled the effort to […] More

  • BAE Receives New Dry Dock at San Diego Shipyard; Joe Campbell Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Receives New Dry Dock at San Diego Shipyard; Joe Campbell Comments

    BAE Systems has transported a new dry dock to the company’s San Diego shipyard as part of its $100 million investment to support the U.S. Navy’s fleet repair efforts on the West Coast. The Posh Terasea Eagle ship towed the 55,000-lifting-ton floating dry dock to the shipyard, where it will undergo testing, installation, final assembly and certification, BAE said Thursday. Joe […] More

  • BAE to Supply Retrofit Systems for USAF Countermeasure Dispenser Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE to Supply Retrofit Systems for USAF Countermeasure Dispenser Platform

    BAE Systems has received a $15.3 million firm-fixed-price contract to supply 242 retrofit systems for the U.S. Air Force‘s (AN/ALE)-58A countermeasure dispenser platform. The Defense Department said Thursday the (AN/ALE)-58A platform is designed to dispense countermeasure decoys such as chaffs and flares in order to disrupt radar and infrared homing threats and increase aircraft survivability. BAE’s electronic systems […] More

  • Army Orders $69M in BAE Rocket Propellant Grains - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Orders $69M in BAE Rocket Propellant Grains

    BAE Systems has secured a $69 million contract from the U.S. Army to manufacture additional propellant grains for rotary- and fixed-wing aircraft rockets. The company said Wednesday it will produce MK90 propellants at the BAE-operated Radford Army Ammunition Plant in Virginia through October 2018. Reed McPeak, vice president and general manager of BAE’s ordnance systems business, said the propellants are designed […] More

  • BAE Adds 6 Equipment Suppliers to UK Global Combat Ship Production Team; Geoff Searle Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Adds 6 Equipment Suppliers to UK Global Combat Ship Production Team; Geoff Searle Comments

    BAE Systems has chosen an additional six companies to manufacture equipment for the U.K. navy’s first three Type 26 Global Combat Ships. BAE said Tuesday it currently works with 33 other firms that include 15 maritime equipment suppliers on the shipbuilding program. Rolls-Royce, Johnsons Controls, Marine Systems Technology, Salt Separation Services, Detegasa and MEP–Pellegrini Marine […] More

  • BAE, NFU Mutual to Collaborate on Financial Crime Detection, Prevention System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE, NFU Mutual to Collaborate on Financial Crime Detection, Prevention System

    BAE Systems has received a contract to help NFU Mutual develop a system for the insurance company to protect customers against fraud and financial crimes. The partnership seeks to utilize external and internal data sources to identify fraudsters at the point of sale, BAE said Friday. Work under the contract is scheduled to begin in 2017. “We will be working with NFU […] More

  • BAE Unveils Aerospace Training Facility in UK; Chris Boardman Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Unveils Aerospace Training Facility in UK; Chris Boardman Comments

    BAE Systems has launched a new facility in Lancashire, England, that seeks to provide aerospace training and skills development support to the company’s employees and apprentices. The company’s Academy for Skills & Knowledge will also provide training support to the north west England’s engineering and manufacturing industry and serve as an education facility for school […] More