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Leidos [LDOS] has protested a Transportation Security Administration award to Peraton for integrated logistics services for the agency’s security equipment installed at the nation’s airports. Leidos is the incumbent for […]

F-35 prime contractor Lockheed Martin [LMT] has begun delivering full-mission simulators for the fighter jet to foreign customers, the company announced Nov. 6. The Israeli, Italian, Japanese and Norwegian air forces have […]

The Swedish government has decided to start negotiations on procuring Raytheon’s [RTN] Patriot air and missile defense system for upward of $1.2 billion, the government said Nov. 7. The Swedish Armed […]

Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) on Nov. 6 said that it has agreed to have the private equity firm FIMIinvest $40 million in its satellite imagery services business, ImageSat International (ISI), in exchange […]

As with all recent political appointees to Army civilian posts, the service’s presumptive chief weapon buyer did not escape questioning during his confirmation hearing on how he would remedy the […]

Recent trends in malicious cybersecurity activity show that hackers are becoming much more adept at breaching networks using acquired “legitimate” credentials (such as outdated test log-in accounts to VPNs) and […]

The Marine Corps has fielded the first open-architecture mission-systems computer aboard the UH-1Y utility helicopter and AH-1Z gunship. Northrop Grumman [NOC] manufactured and delivered its Tech Refresh Mission Computer (TRMC) as […]

The Army is moving ahead with an effort to team unmanned aircraft with the AH-64 Apache gunship, awarding $97 million in contracts to L3 Technologies [LLL] for improved communication and control systems. […]

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has granted Aurora Flight Sciences a flight worthiness certificate for its UH-1H optionally-piloted helicopter, the AEH-1. With this latest certification, announced Nov.1, Aurora is permitted […]

The U.S. Air Force’s troubled Global Positioning System (GPS) Next Generation Operational Control System (OCX) has made progress in its development recently, but the ground-control system still has major hurdles […]