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The Air Force anticipates greater commercial satellite communications (COMSATCOM) capacity in the Asia-Pacific region over the next five-to-10 years for the service to leverage, according to the head of its […]

The Senate Appropriations Committee added $225 million to its Emergency Supplemental Funding bill for the current fiscal year to support Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system in light of ongoing […]

Kongsberg Defense Systems  and Finmeccanica-AgustaWestland recently signed a protocol to extend and increase cooperation relating to maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) of dynamic components, including various gear boxes, for the […]

ATK [ATK] recently said during its fiscal first quarter, April-June, it received international contracts from allies totaling more than $220 million for medium-caliber cannons and aftermarket services that will support […]

The Air Force  July 18 awarded Lockheed Martin [LMT] potentially $565 million for six C-130J-30s for India, according to a Defense Department statement. The Foreign Military Sales (FMS) deal includes […]

Exelis [XLS] this week said it received a contract valued at more than $9 million to provide advanced military air traffic management capabilities to the Saudi Arabian National Guard (SANG). […]

Finmeccanica’s AgustaWestland said July 15 it successfully completed the demonstration of its Rotorcraft Unmanned Aerial System / Optionally Piloted Helicopter (RUAS/OPH) to the Italian Ministry of Defense (MoD). The trials […]

Kongsberg Defense Systems  and Finmeccanica- AgustaWestland recently signed a protocol to extend and increase cooperation relating to maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) of dynamic components, including various gear boxes, for […]

AgustaWestland’s U.K. unit will integrate, test and install highly advanced anti-ship missiles for Royal Navy Wildcat helicopters under an approximately $90 million contract, in the first new collaborative equipment project […]

Raytheon [RTN] has taken its sniper detection system Boomerang to the air, testing it on UH-60 Black Hawk and CH-47 Chinook helicopters, as it evolves the technology from systems used […]