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Raytheon [RTN] March 26 said it signed its second Letter of Intent with MESKO, Poland’s leading missile and ammunition manufacturer. The areas of cooperation will focus on Raytheon’s solutions for […]

The Royal Canadian Air Force selected Northrop Grumman [NOC] to provide infrared missile protection countermeasures on its fleet of CH-14F Chinooks, the company said March 25. The company is to […]

RUAG Defense will provide ballistic protection kits to upgrade the Pandur I armored personnel carrier fleets of Belgium and Austria under a joint procurement effort. Pandur is a General Dynamics […]

France’s Airbus Group on March 23 said its Airbus Defence and Space division has agreed to sell its Rostock System Technik (RST) aerospace engineering unit to Germany’s Ferchau Engineering GmbH, […]

The State Department approved a possible $1.05 billion Foreign Military Sales (FMS) request to the Netherlands the week of March 16 for 17 CH-47F cargo helicopters and associated equipment, parts, […]

The North Atlantic Council March 23 nominated French Air Force Gen. Denis Mercier to the post of Supreme Allied Commander Transformation (SACT), headquartered in Norfolk, Va. Mercier will succeed French […]

President Obama established the Director of White House Information Technology (IT) and appointed David Recordon, former Engineering Director at Facebook [FB], to the position, the White House announced in a […]

Rep. Jim Bridenstine (R-Okla.) vowed March 16 to find funding for the Air Force’s commercial satellite communications (COMSATCOM) “Pathfinder 2” program, which he said was not funded in the service’s […]

General Dynamics’ [GD] four-channel Digital Modular Radios (DMR) successfully completed a Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) satellite communications test at the company’s MUOS test facility in Scottsdale, Ariz. in February, […]

General Dynamics [GD] March 10 said it received an Army contract with a potential total value of $13 million to support upgrades to the Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) waveform […]