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Business/FinancialBoeing’s ScanEagle Reaches Flight, Recovery Milestones
Boeing‘s [BA] ScanEagle unmanned aircraft (UA) logged a pair of service milestones as it surpassed 50,000 combat flight hours with Marine Expeditionary Forces (MEF) in Iraq and 1,000 shipboard recoveries […]
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Homeland Security
Air Force Issues RFI for Epidemic Outbreak Surveillance
The Air Force Medical System has issued a Request for Information (RFI) under the Epidemic Outbreak Surveillance program, which addresses the need for a comprehensive diagnostic and informatics surveillance system, […]
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Business/Financial
Navy Halts MH-60S AMCM OPEVAL, Review Underway
By Geoff Fein Reliability issues with the AQS-20 sonar’s cable winch system aboard the MH-60S Seahawk, have led the Navy to suspend the system’s operational evaluation (OPEVAL) while an independent […]
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Homeland Security
DHS Domestic Preparedness Office to Test Multi-Sensor Meters
The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Federal Emergency Management Agency, Center for Domestic Preparedness is conducting an end-user functionality and efficacy assessment of multi-sensor meter chemical point detectors commonly referred […]
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ArmyArmy Taps Northrop Grumman For STARlite Radars For ER/MP Program
By Ann Roosevelt Under an initial $42 million contract, Northrop Grumman [NOC] will deliver 10 STARLite(tm) Synthetic Aperture Radar(SAR)/Ground Moving Target Indication (GMTI) radars to the Army for the for […]
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Business/Financial
Investments In Sub Program Helping Navy Cut Schedule, Improve Construction
By Geoff Fein When the USS North Carolina (SSN-777) is commissioned Saturday, May 3, it will mark improvements in the way the newest attack submarines are built, enabling the Navy […]
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General Dynamics, Elbit Systems Demonstrate New UAV
General Dynamics [GD] Armament and Technical Products and Israel’s Elbit Systems‘ [ESLT] wholly-owned subsidiary Elbit Systems of America LLC, recently conducted the first U.S. demonstration of the Skylarkr II Small […]
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Canada Requests Purchase of CH-47D Chinook Helicopters
The Defense Security Cooperation Agency April 21 notified Congress of a possible Foreign Military Sale to Canada of CH-47D Chinook helicopters as well as associated equipment and services. The total […]
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Army
BAE Systems Leads Alliance To Develop Mini Robots
BAE Systems April 28 announced it signed a five year, $38 million agreement with the Army Research Laboratory (ARL) to lead an alliance of researchers and scientists from the Army, […]
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Boeing’s ScanEagle Reaches Flight, Recovery Marks
Boeing‘s [BA] ScanEagle unmanned aircraft (UA) logged a pair of service milestones as it surpassed 50,000 combat flight hours with Marine Expeditionary Forces (MEF) in Iraq and 1,000 shipboard recoveries […]