Rich Abott
Articles By Richard
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HN for Wed. Feb. 4, 2014
- Army Pursuing Multi-Year Deal For Boeing Apache Helicopters
- Japan Selects E-2D, Global Hawk, Makes V-22 Official
- Army Taking Longer-Term Risk in Modernization Accounts to Preserve Short-Term Readiness
- New Australia Training Helicopter Completed First Test Flight
- Raytheon Acquires Developer Of Small UAS Systems
- Sikorsky Begins Testing of S-97 Raider program
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UncategorizedSikorsky Begins Testing of S-97 Raider program
Sikorsky [UTX] is starting bladed ground testing for the S-97 Raider program, the company said on Feb. 4. The Raider is an armed reconnaissance rotorcraft designed to outmatch conventional military […]
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Raytheon Acquires Developer Of Small UAS Systems
Raytheon [RTN] on Jan. 26 said it has acquired Sensintel, a small Arizona-based firm that develops and produces small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) for the intelligence and special operations markets. […]
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New Australia Training Helicopter Completed First Test Flight
The first of 15 EC135 T2+ training helicopters being produced by Airbus Helicopters for Australia completed its first test flight on Jan. 16, two months after signing the contract for […]
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Army Taking Longer-Term Risk in Modernization Accounts to Preserve Short-Term Readiness
The Army’s fiscal year 2016 budget request acknowledges that it can’t have a ready force now and invest in future warfighting systems given the tight budget environment, so the service […]
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Japan Selects E-2D, Global Hawk, Makes V-22 Official
Japan has announced that it plans to buy E-2D early warning and command and control aircraft and the Global Hawk for intelligence, reconnaissance and surveillance missions as part of an […]
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Army Pursuing Multi-Year Deal For Boeing Apache Helicopters
The Army is pursuing a multi-year deal with Boeing [BA] to procure between 240 and 450 AH-64E Echo variant Apache helicopters that could be worth between $5 billion and $10 […]
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Business/FinancialSikorsky Begins Testing of S-97 Raider
Sikorsky [UTX] is starting bladed ground testing for the S-97 Raider program, the company said on Wednesday. The Raider is an armed reconnaissance rotorcraft designed to outmatch conventional military helicopters […]
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Business/FinancialEmbraer KC-390 Transport Completes First Test Flight
Embraer [ERJ] successfully completed the first flight test of the new KC-390 military transport and aerial refueling jet, the company said on Tuesday. Test pilots Mozart Louzada and Marcos Salgado […]
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BudgetCSBA: Congress Unlikely To Raise Spending Caps Enough to Accommodate Expected DoD FY ’16 Request
The Pentagon will unveil its fiscal year 2016 budget request on Monday and ask Congress to give about $35 billion more than the sequestration spending caps allow for defense spending–and […]