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  • Iridium, Thales to Offer UK Search-Rescue Rotorcraft Broadband Connectivity - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Iridium, Thales to Offer UK Search-Rescue Rotorcraft Broadband Connectivity

    Iridium Communications‘ OpenPort broadband service will operate with Thales‘ LiveAero systems to provide Bristow Helicopters‘ Sikorsky S-92 aircraft with broadband voice and data connectivity functions to support search-and-rescue missions. The companies said Tuesday that the combination of OpenPort and LiveAero aims to help facilitate in-flight care and triage functions such as real-time exchange of electronic patient data with on-ground medical teams. Bristow plans to deploy this mobile […] More

  • Lockheed-Sikorsky Team Hands US Navy 200th MH-60R Helicopter; Dan Spoor Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed-Sikorsky Team Hands US Navy 200th MH-60R Helicopter; Dan Spoor Comments

    Lockheed Martin has delivered the 200th MH-60R maritime helicopter to the U.S. Navy with the goal of supporting the branch’s surface and submarine warfare operations. Sikorsky manufactured the Romeo multirole helicopter and Lockheed built the vehicle’s sensor technology and other mission systems, Lockheed said Thursday. The Navy’s MH-60R fleet has recorded more than 250,000 flight […] More

  • Ambassador Max Baucus Visits Pratt & Whitney's Shanghai Engine Center; Roger Retana Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ambassador Max Baucus Visits Pratt & Whitney’s Shanghai Engine Center; Roger Retana Comments

    Pratt & Whitney‘s Shanghai Engine Center hosted a visit from U.S. Ambassador to China Max Sieben Baucus, who inspected the facility and met with executives from United Technologies Corp.‘s subsidiaries and joint venture partner. The UTC subsidiary said Wednesday the center houses its Shanghai Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Engine Maintenance Company venture with China Eastern Airlines. “It was a […] More

  • Sikorsky, Army Test Fly Autonomous Black Hawk Helicopter; Mark Miller Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sikorsky, Army Test Fly Autonomous Black Hawk Helicopter; Mark Miller Comments

    Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. and the U.S. Army have demonstrated an autonomous version of the Black Hawk helicopter to further work on cargo delivery methods. The company and the Army flew the UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter by using Sikorsky’s Matrix and ground control station technologies, Sikorsky said Tuesday. Mark Miller, Sikorsky vice president of research and […] More

  • Lockheed-Sikorsky JV Breaks Ground on Chopper Maintenance Complex - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed-Sikorsky JV Breaks Ground on Chopper Maintenance Complex

    A joint venture of Lockheed Martin and Sikorsky Aircraft has started construction work on a complex that will house maintenance work on the Australian navy’s fleet of 24 MH-60R maritime helicopters. The Maritime Helicopter Support Company broke ground on the new maintenance and warehouse facilities and expects construction to finish in early 2015,  the company announced Wednesday. Representatives from Brisbane-based Sikorsky […] More