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The U.S. Army approved a $220.5 million contract to Airbus for the production of 41 UK-72A Lakota helicopters, Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.), chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee and Defense […]

The United Kingdom Ministry of Defence signed a contract worth almost $649 million with Boeing [BA] for in-service support of the Chinook helicopter, the government said on Feb. 17. Prime […]

Airbus Helicopters decided to concentrate on the ARRANO engine type from Turbomeca for its X4 helicopter program, dropping Pratt & Whitney Canada, the company said on Feb. 18. Airbus originally […]

Sikorsky Aircraft [UTX] and the Brazilian Instituto Tecnologico de Aeronautica (ITA) launched the Collaboration for Rotorocraft Innovation to accelerate the development of rotorcraft engineers in Brazil, the company said on […]

The Chinese military sees major weaknesses in its own cyber domain, according to a new report from RAND. China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) sees cyber, along with space, and electronic […]

More Border Security Technology. Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), fresh of a trip earlier this month to the southern border to examine border security and immigration issues, tells reporters that one […]

Sikorsky Aircraft [UTX] and the Brazilian Instituto Tecnologico de Aeronautica (ITA) launched the Collaboration for Rotorocraft Innovation to accelerate the development of rotorcraft engineers in Brazil, the company said on […]

DRS Technologies, a Finmeccanica company, provided sensors on two of the latest next-generation weather satellites for the Japan Meteorological Agency, the company said on Feb. 11. DRS contributed 32 sensors […]

The U.S. Department of Defense awarded Gilbane Federal a design-build construction project at the King Khalid Air base for the Royal Saudi Air Force in Saudi Arabia worth $166 million, […]

Australia chose BAE Systems and Tasman Aviation Enterprises (TAE) to operate maintenance respojnsibilities for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) airframe and engine, its defence minister said on Feb. 11. […]