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  • Boeing to Continue Air Force Small Diameter Bomb Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing to Continue Air Force Small Diameter Bomb Support

    Boeing has secured a $30 million contract modification to extend the company’s production, engineering and logistics services for a U.S. Air Force weapon system designed to engage and hit targets from a long distance. The modification falls under a previously awarded indefinite-quantity/indefinite-delivery contract for life cycle support to Small Diameter Bomb I and increases the potential contract value to $110 […] More

  • Eric Fanning to Become Aerospace Industries Association President, CEO - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Eric Fanning to Become Aerospace Industries Association President, CEO

    Eric Fanning, formerly secretary of the U.S. Army, will succeed Dave Melcher as president and CEO of the Aerospace Industries Association beginning Jan. 1. “Eric will strengthen AIA’s position as the voice of the aerospace and defense industry, bringing continued attention and advocacy to key issues affecting civil aviation, space and defense,” Dennis Muilenburg, AIA chairman […] More

  • Report: Qatar Eyes Typhoon Fighter Aircraft Purchase From BAE - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Qatar Eyes Typhoon Fighter Aircraft Purchase From BAE

    Qatari Defense Minister Khalid bin Mohammed Al Attiyah and his U.K. counterpart Michael Fallon have signed a letter of intent to procure Typhoon fighter aircraft for Qatar, Reuters reported Monday. The Middle Eastern country plans to buy 24 Typhoon planes and associated equipment from British defense contractor BAE Systems as part of the agreement, Qatar’s state news agency said. […] More

  • Triumph Named Component Supplier for Boeing T-X Trainer Aircraft Offering - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Triumph Named Component Supplier for Boeing T-X Trainer Aircraft Offering

    Boeing has chosen Triumph Group as a key supplier for the aerospace and defense company’s trainer aircraft offering to the U.S. Air Force‘s T-X program. Triumph’s Red Oak, Texas-based Aerospace Structures business would supply wing, vertical tail and horizontal tail structures if the military branch picks Boeing as T-X primary contractor, Boeing said Friday. Boeing announced […] More

  • Report: Boeing Vet Roger Roberts Named Hera Systems CEO - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Boeing Vet Roger Roberts Named Hera Systems CEO

    Roger Roberts, who led Boeing‘s space and intelligence systems business from 1997 to 2015, has joined Hera Systems as CEO of the Earth observation satellite company, Space News reported Friday. The report said Roberts succeeds Hera founder Bobby Machinski, who will transition to a new role as chief business development officer of the satellite startup. Roberts […] More

  • Report: Boeing, Lockheed Bid on Air Force UH-1N Helicopter Replacement Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Boeing, Lockheed Bid on Air Force UH-1N Helicopter Replacement Program

    Boeing and Lockheed Martin have submitted bids to the U.S. Air Force for a program to replace the service branch’s fleet of UH-1N Huey helicopters, Breaking Defense reported Wednesday. The Boeing-Leonardo team offered the MH-139 helicopter as its entry for the UH-1N replacement competition as the military branch looks to procure 84 aircraft through the […] More

  • Boeing Gets Additional Funds for Navy Super Hornet Service Life Assessment, Extension Programs - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing Gets Additional Funds for Navy Super Hornet Service Life Assessment, Extension Programs

    The U.S. Navy has awarded Boeing a $42 million contract modification for efforts to extend the service life of F/A-18E/F Super Hornet fighter aircraft. The Defense Department said Tuesday the modification provides additional funds for the Super Hornet Service Life Assessment Program and Service Life Extension Program, which aim to lengthen the fighter aircraft’s operations beyond its […] More

  • Boeing to Help SES Build 7 Medium Earth Orbit Satellites - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing to Help SES Build 7 Medium Earth Orbit Satellites

    Boeing has signed a deal to design and build seven medium earth orbit satellites for SES to deliver data communications services for clients worldwide. O3b mPOWER satellites will feature Boeing’s digital payload technologies along with customized electronics from the 702 satellite platform, the company said Monday. Paul Rusnock, chairman and CEO of Boeing Satellite Systems International, […] More

  • Report: Lockheed’s Sikorsky Links Raider Aircraft Hard Landing Incident to Flight Software Issues - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Lockheed’s Sikorsky Links Raider Aircraft Hard Landing Incident to Flight Software Issues

    Lockheed Martin’s Sikorsky subsidiary has found that issues associated with the flight control software caused the Aug. 2 hard landing incident involving the S-97 Raider aircraft prototype, Vertical Magazine reported Monday. The incident occurred as the prototype carried out a vertical take-off operation at the start of the test flight at the company’s flight center […] More

  • Army Begins Short-Range Air Defense System Shoot-Off - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Begins Short-Range Air Defense System Shoot-Off

    The U.S. Army has kicked off a demonstration of short-range air defense systems that could potentially address the gap in the service branch’s SHORAD capabilities, Military Times reported. The report said the SHORAD demonstration began on Sept. 4 at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico and will run until Sept. 16 to give industry […] More

  • Boeing to Supply Additional Parts for Air Force B-1B Integrated Battle Station - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing to Supply Additional Parts for Air Force B-1B Integrated Battle Station

    Boeing has secured a potential $23.8 million contract modification to provide diminishing manufacturing source life-of-type parts for the U.S. Air Force‘s Integrated Battle Station. The Defense Department said Friday Boeing’s defense, space and security unit will supply additional DMS LoT parts in support of the B-1B fleet. The service branch received its first B-1 bomber aircraft equipped with a company-built Integrated […] More

  • Bell Completes V-280 Tiltrotor Prototype for Army - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Bell Completes V-280 Tiltrotor Prototype for Army

    Textron‘s Bell Helicopter subsidiary has completed the prototype build of a tiltrotor aircraft platform designed for the Joint Multi-Role Technology Demonstrator program under the U.S. Army‘s Future Vertical Lift initiative. Bell said Wednesday it aims to demonstrate its V-280 Valor offering this fall through a maiden flight test. Lockheed Martin built V-280’s cockpit, avionics, distributed aperture system […] More