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Nearly three weeks into a shutdown of a quarter of the federal government, including the Department of Homeland Security, contractors so far say they aren’t seeing any drag on their […]

Vice President Mike Pence tells reporters on Jan. 7 that as part of ongoing border wall negotiations with Democrats in Congress, the Trump administration is considering adding $631 million to […]

Just after Christmas, Sikorsky [LMT] and Boeing [BA] released two photographs of the SB-1 Defiant compound helicopter prototype, which has been completed and rolled out of the West Palm Beach, […]

Airbus Helicopters will produce high-precision mechanical parts in Hungary under the terms of a new, long-term partnership. That production is the first example of cooperation under a Memorandum of Understanding […]

Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), who this year secured full construction funding for a crucial defense-uranium plant in his home state, on Monday announced he will leave the Senate after 2020. […]

The German armed forces, or Bundeswehr, has ordered seven Airbus H145M search-and-rescue (SAR) helicopters to replace its “obsolete” SAR fleet of Bell [TXT] UH-1Ds, which entered service in the 1970s, […]

First flight of the SB-1 Defiant compound helicopter prototype has been pushed to 2019, officials from program partners Boeing [BA] and Lockheed Martin [LMT] announced Dec. 12. Sikorsky, which developed […]

DHS CWMD Office Issues RFI for Support Services The Department of Homeland Security Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction (CWMD) Office has issued a Request for Information (RFI) to industry for […]

MCR Federal on $48M DHS Cost Analysis Services Contract MCR Federal, LLC, says it has won a spot on the Department of Homeland Security Cost Analysis Division’s Specialized Cost Services […]

Australian Airport Evaluating Smiths Detection’s CT Checkpoint Scanner Smiths Detection says that Melbourne Airport in Australia is evaluating the company’s computed tomography (CT)-based checkpoint screening system, along with new automated […]