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The Spanish Ministry of Defense this week acquired two more Airbus Helicopters EC135, making its fleet of 16 the world’s largest for military use of the aircraft, Airbus said. The […]

The Pentagon’s rapid development and deployment of unmanned systems over the last decade has resulted in too many which are incapable of interacting with other platforms or external systems, an […]

Lockheed Martin [LMT] plans to receive the first Global Positioning System III (GPS III) satellite’s navigation payload this spring from payload developer Exelis [XLS] after originally forecasting delivery for early 2014. Lockheed Martin […]

United Launch Alliance (ULA) never let its exclusivity agreement with RD-180 engine provider RD AMROSS expire, according to company CEO Michael Gass, refuting a key allegation in Orbital Sciences’ [ORB] lawsuit against ULA. “We […]

Lockheed Martin [LMT] assembled its fifth Mobile User Objective System satellite faster than the previous four builds, getting the satellite into early testing 20 percent ahead of schedule, the company said […]

Lockheed Martin [LMT] said it successfully performed on Jan. 15 an Aegis Ashore missile defense exercise called “flight test tracking exercise No. 18,” which a company official said included multiple unitary […]

The Army and Navy in cooperation with Lockheed Martin [LMT] recently demonstrated the Longbow missile’s use for littoral combat and potential use for shipboard launches, the company said on Jan. 14. Multiple […]

Lockheed Martin [LMT] has dropped its protest of the Navy’s awarding of the contract for the new Air Missile Defense Radar (AMDR) to Raytheon [RTN], allowing the service to resume work on the […]

The Navy’s first Joint High Speed Vessel, the USNS Spearhead, is set to begin a three-month deployment on Jan. 16 geared toward learning about how the vessel designed for fast in-theater […]

Curtiss-Wright [CW] said on Jan. 13 it has acquired Component Coating and Repair Services Limited (CCRS), which supports aerospace and industrial turbine applications, for $25 million in cash. United Kingdom-based CCRS […]