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Business/Financial
ATK Acquires Blackhawk Industries To Expand, Diversify In Security Market
By Calvin Biesecker ATK [ATK] yesterday said it has acquired Blackhawk Industries Products Group Unlimited, LLC, a manufacturer and provider of tactical accessories and equipment for the security market, complementing […]
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Navy Crafting ‘Preferred Supplier’ Program
By Emelie Rutherford The Navy is crafting a program for labeling contractors as "preferred suppliers" as part of its push to lower costs during the sustainment of weapon systems, a […]
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Boeing Completes Spanish Chinook Industrial Cooperation
Boeing [BA] recently announced it has successfully completed its industrial cooperation program for the third phase of the CH-47D Chinook rotorcraft upgrades performed for the Spanish army’s Airmobile Force, FAMET. […]
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ATK Lowers FY ’10 Guidance
ATK [ATK] yesterday lowered its earnings, sales and free cash flow guidance for the rest of its fiscal year, saying it would take a $38 million pre- tax charge in […]
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GoAhead Software Moving Its SAFfire Software From Proprietary To Open
By Geoff Fein GoAhead Software, a player in the Navy’s Common Processing System (CPS), is taking what might be seen as an unusual step in making its SAFfire software completely […]
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Fire Scout Conducts Its First Drug Interdiction In Eastern Pacific
During a post-maintenance check flight earlier this month, a Northrop Grumman [NOC] MQ-8B Fire Scout Vertical Take-off and Landing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (VTUAV) supported its first drug interdiction with the […]
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Next Round of G/ATOR Tests Will Verify AESA Functions
Northrop Grumman [NOC] will soon begin the next system test phase for the Ground/Air Task Oriented Radar (G/ATOR) system at the company’s antenna test facility. This newest series of tests […]
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Navy’s Eighth OA Report Highlights New Guidebooks, Continued Progress
By Geoff Fein The Navy’s eighth quarterly report to Congress on open architecture (OA) outlines a number of efforts the service plans for 2010 including publishing a guidebook for requirements […]
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L-1 Acquires Iris Identity Solutions Provider Retica Systems
L-I Identity Solutions [ID] yesterday said it has acquired the assets of Retica Systems, giving it new products and customers related to the use of iris capture and recognition technologies […]
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Orbital Completes Acquisition of GD’s Satellite Development Unit
Orbital Sciences Corp. [ORB] last Friday said it has completed its $55 million purchase of the spacecraft development and manufacturing business from General Dynamics [GD]. Orbital announced the deal early […]