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Sikorsky Tops AgustaWestland For Turkish Utility Helicopter Program
Sikorsky [UTX] has topped Finmeccanica‘s AgustaWestland in the potential $3.5 billion Turkish competition for 109 helicopters, Turkish Defense Minister Vecdi Gonul April 21 announced the Turkish Defense Industry Executive Committee […]
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SpaceIndustry Teams Shaping Up For Air Force Space Test Range Contract
Several industry teams have announced their intent to compete for an upcoming Air Force space launch and test range contract. Lockheed Martin [LMT] recently said it has teamed up with […]
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Space
SBIRS GEO-1 Poised For May Launch
The first geosynchronous satellite (GEO-1) in the Defense Department’s planned next-generation early missile warning constellation is being readied for launch in less than a month, Air Force officials overseeing the […]
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Space
FY ’11 Defense Bill Continues U.S.-Israeli Missile Defense Cooperation
U.S.-Israeli cooperative missile-defense programs would receive $415.1 million in the final Continuing Resolution (CR) legislation for fiscal year 2011. The CR provides funding to keep the federal government operating for […]
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Space
NASA Would Snag Ability To Cancel Constellation Contracts Under Budget Plan
NASA will be allowed to cancel unwanted contracts from the defunct Constellation manned-spaceflight program if Congress passes the massive fiscal year 2011 budget deal reached late last week. The full-year […]
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Space
Aurora Awarded NASA Contract, Company Says
NASA has awarded Aurora Flight Sciences a contract to develop Small Probes for Orbital Return of Experiments (SPORE), the company said. Aurora Flight Sciences has paired with Georgia Institute of […]
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Space
Northrop Grumman to Test Heat Management System on Space Station
Northrop Grumman [NOC] will use an experiment on the International Space Station to test a new way to cool military satellite payloads, the company said recently. The payload, the Massive […]
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Former Rep. Taylor Working At Tugboat Firm, Keeping D.C. Ties
By Emelie Rutherford Mississippi’s Gene Taylor used to chide the Navy and shipbuilders about any perceived missteps they took when working to bolster the size of the service’s multi-hundred-ship fleet. […]
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Defense Watch
The Latest Word On Trends And Developments In Aerospace And Defense White House Ax. President Barack Obama continues to make his case for cutting $400 billion in national-security spending by […]
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Army Conducting Market Survey For Humvee Recap, Modernization
By Ann Roosevelt By May 27, the Army wants to hear from industry on its market survey questionnaire for a competitive Humvee recapitalization and modernization effort. The work would encompass […]