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  • Boeing's Aurora Flight Sciences Flies Autonomous UH-1H Helicopter in Cargo Resupply Demo - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing’s Aurora Flight Sciences Flies Autonomous UH-1H Helicopter in Cargo Resupply Demo

    Aurora Flight Sciences has demonstrated an autonomous version of the UH-1H helicopter as part of the Office of Naval Research‘s Autonomous Aerial Cargo Utility System program. The Boeing subsidiary said Wednesday the AACUS-Enabled UH-1H helicopter, or AEH-1, performed multiple flights at the Marine Corps Base Quantico to verify its capacity to conduct resupply missions autonomously in operationally relevant […] More

  • Air Force Orders Boeing Minuteman Wafer Instrumentation Support Kits - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Orders Boeing Minuteman Wafer Instrumentation Support Kits

    Boeing has received a $40.6 million modification under a U.S. Air Force contract to provide mod 7 wafer instrumentation support kits for the service branch’s flight test of the Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missile system. The company will deliver the kits to support the Minuteman force development evaluation program at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, the Defense Department said Tuesday. DoD […] More

  • Report: Germany Eyes Eurofighter Typhoon as Potential Tornado Fighter Jet Replacement - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Germany Eyes Eurofighter Typhoon as Potential Tornado Fighter Jet Replacement

    Germany’s defense ministry said it considers the Eurofighter Typhoon aircraft as its primary option to replace its fleet of 85 Tornado fighter jets by 2025, Reuters reported Tuesday. The European country’s parliament would need to approve the procurement of new fighter jets over the next two years with a plan to have the contract signed by […] More

  • Boeing Gets MDA Contract to Integrate, Test Low Power Laser on UAV - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing Gets MDA Contract to Integrate, Test Low Power Laser on UAV

    Boeing has won a nine-month, $9 million contract from the Missile Defense Agency to integrate and test a low power laser technology on an unmanned aerial vehicle. The Defense Department said Friday Boeing will aim to help MDA address laser power and aperture size under the first phase of the agency’s Low Power Laser Demonstrator program. Contract work […] More

  • Boeing Gets Modification on Air Force AWACS Aircraft Upgrade Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing Gets Modification on Air Force AWACS Aircraft Upgrade Contract

    Boeing has received a $46.3 million contract modification for upgrade work on the U.S. Air Force‘s fleet of airborne warning and control system aircraft. The Defense Department said Thursday the modification will definitize a previous undefinitized contract action for the low-rate initial production of the AWACS Diminishing Manufacturing Sources Replacement of Avionics for Global Operations and Navigation […] More

  • IBM Tops List of Australian Govt IT Contractors - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM Tops List of Australian Govt IT Contractors

    A new report from Australia’s national audit office says IBM received the highest number of information technology contracts from the Australian government during the 2012 to 2013 through 2016 to 2017 period, ZDNet reported Thursday. Australia spent $27 billion on IT contracts over the five-year period, including $1.8 billion for 692 government contracts that went to IBM, […] More

  • Northrop, VX Aerospace Offer UAV Platform for Navy's Manned-Unmanned Teaming Effort - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop, VX Aerospace Offer UAV Platform for Navy’s Manned-Unmanned Teaming Effort

    Northrop Grumman has partnered with VX Aerospace on a proposal to equip the U.S. Navy‘s updated E/A-18G Growler aircraft with a canister-launched unmanned air vehicle platform, Flightglobal reported Thursday. JJ Thompson, naval aviation campaign director at Northrop’s mission systems business, told Flightglobal the service branch has expressed interest in adopting the Dash X UAV for a potential manned-unmanned teaming effort with the […] More

  • Boeing Conducts Initial Flight Test on Air Force KC-46A Tanker - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing Conducts Initial Flight Test on Air Force KC-46A Tanker

    Boeing has subjected an aerial refueling aircraft under primary in-flight tests in preparation for its scheduled delivery to the U.S. Air Force in 2018. The company said Tuesday its first operational KC-46A tanker completed its initial flight and airborne tests over 210 minutes at a maximum altitude of 39,000 feet. Tests included engine, flight control and environmental systems operational checks […] More

  • Viasat-Built Satellite Begins In-Orbit Data Transmission and Reception Tests - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Viasat-Built Satellite Begins In-Orbit Data Transmission and Reception Tests

    A Viasat-developed satellite has arrived at its intended geostationary orbit and started in-orbit testing which covers the transmission and reception of data from the satellite to a Viasat-built ground segment. Viasat said Tuesday the ViaSat-2 satellite will undergo in-orbit tests then begin commercial service in February 2018 and support the delivery of enterprise, government, residential […] More

  • Navy Taps Boeing-Bell JV for Tiltrotor Aircraft Technical Support Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Taps Boeing-Bell JV for Tiltrotor Aircraft Technical Support Services

    A Boeing–Bell Helicopter joint venture has secured a potential five-year, $18 million contract to render support services for the U.S. Navy‘s V-22 tiltrotor aircraft fleet. The Bell-Boeing Joint Project Office will perform technical analysis, engineering and integration efforts under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, the Defense Department said Tuesday. Work is scheduled to be completed by December 2022 with funds […] More

  • Lisa Colloredo: Boeing, SpaceX Work to Address NASA ‘LOC’ Safety Requirement for Crew Vehicles - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lisa Colloredo: Boeing, SpaceX Work to Address NASA ‘LOC’ Safety Requirement for Crew Vehicles

    Lisa Colloredo, deputy program manager for NASA’s commercial crew program, has said Boeing and SpaceX should be able to meet the agency’s safety requirements as they prepare to enter the flight testing phase for their commercial crew spacecraft over the next year, Space News reported Monday. Colloredo said at the Wednesday meeting of the NASA Advisory […] More

  • Aerospace Industries Association Unveils 2018 Board of Governors Members - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Aerospace Industries Association Unveils 2018 Board of Governors Members

    The Aerospace Industries Association has named at least 20 executives from the government contracting sector to its board of governors for 2018. Thomas Kennedy, chairman and CEO of Raytheon, will succeed Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg as chairman of AIA, the trade group said Monday. William Brown, chairman, president and CEO of Harris, will serve as […] More