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The Marine Corps is seeking alternative sources of funding for its Software Reprogrammable Payload (SRP) software-defined radio, which the service sees as a game-changer in boosting communications capabilities and mission […]

Finmeccanica’s AgustaWestland on Jan. 29 received two contracts totaling about $1.2 billion from the U.K. Ministry of Defense to upgrade AH-64 Apache and Merlin helicopters, while supporting the economy.  A […]

Buoyed by strong results in its commercial airplane and defense segments, Boeing [BA]–which manufactures Apache and Chinook helicopters–on Jan. 29 posted higher sales and a double-digit increase in net income although it […]

Airbus Helicopter–a division of Airbus Group–closed 2013 with 497 deliveries, an increase from the prior year, according to its president. Airbus Helicopters President Guillaume Faury said the company, which recently […]

Lockheed Martin [LMT] is developing a civil variant of its C-130J Super Hercules military cargo aircraft to be designated LM-100J. Lockheed Martin said Monday it formally submitted a program notification […]

The administration of President Barack Obama is prioritizing the completion of rewriting the U.S. Munitions List (USML) in 2014 as part of its export control reform initiative. The administration’s export […]

Lockheed Martin [LMT] on Monday said it successfully conducted the second Production Qualification Test (PQT) recently for the new Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System (GMLRS) Alternative Warhead at White Sands […]

New agreements to jointly invest in defense equipment, joint training and development of an Anglo-French Combined Joint Expeditionary Force were signed Jan.31 by U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron and French […]

The Defense Department’s trend of procuring commercial satellite communications (COMSATCOM) bandwidth through lowest price, technically acceptable (LPTA) contract evaluations stifles industry’s innovation to provide best value and supplies warfighters with […]

The Air Force is developing an archival and retrieval system so that declassified data collected by the service’s Commercially Hosted Infrared Payload (CHIRP) may be provided to contractors and researchers […]