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Harris awarded $14.9M for aircraft switch systems
Apr 12, 2018 (UPI)
The contract, announced Wednesday by the Department of Defense, is a modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract. The communications devices ...
Grumman awarded $209M for Large Aircraft Infrared Countermeasures
Apr 12, 2018 (UPI)
The contract, announced Wednesday by the Department of Defense, is valued at $209.7 million and increases the total value of the contract to $1.5 billion. North...
Algeria in mourning after its deadliest plane
Apr 12, 2018 (AFP)
President Abdelaziz Bouteflika announced three days of national mourning after the plane slammed into a field near the Boufarik airbase 30 kilometres (19 miles)...
Boeing to advance design process for new Air Force One
Apr 11, 2018 (UPI)
The deal, announced Tuesday by the Department of Defense, is valued at more than $24 million under the terms of a firm-fixed-price contract, which is a modifica...
Airbus aiming to step up A320neo production
Apr 11, 2018 (AFP)
In 2018 "we do expect to deliver around 800 commercial aircraft," Enders told the European aircraft maker's annual general assembly in Amsterdam. But he caution...
Fierce clashes as French police try to clear anti-capitalist camp
Apr 11, 2018 (AFP)
The clashes erupted at dawn when protesters began throwing projectiles at officers from behind barricades set up to defend the camp at Notre-Dames-des-Landes ne...
257 dead as military plane crashes in Algeria's worst air disaster
Apr 11, 2018 (AFP)
An AFP photographer at the scene saw the charred wreckage of the plane after it caught fire in a field near the Boufarik airbase, 30 kilometres (19 miles) south...
Boeing tapped to support P-8A Poseidon training
Apr 10, 2018 (UPI)
The deal, announced Monday by the Department of Defense, is valued at more than $35.9 million under the terms of a firm-fixed-price contract, which is a modific...
NASA Selects Lockheed Martin Skunk Works to Build X-Plane
Apr 10, 2018 (SPX)
"It is super exciting to be back designing and flying X-planes at this scale," said Jaiwon Shin, NASA's associate administrator for aeronautics. "Our long tradi...
Clashes as French police clear anti-airport protest camp
Apr 09, 2018 (AFP)
Some 2,500 police were deployed to raze the decade-old camp at Notre-Dame-des-Landes, near the western city of Nantes, and evict the last of the protesters who ...
L3 wins Navy contract for fighter aircraft support
Apr 09, 2018 (UPI)
The deal, announced Friday by the Department of Defense, is valued at more than $218 million under the terms of a indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contra...
Boeing tapped to provide F-15 training to Saudi Arabia
Apr 09, 2018 (UPI)
The deal, announced Friday by the Department of Defense, is valued at more than $49.5 million under the terms of a indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity cont...
Faced with global warming, aviation aims to turn green
Apr 08, 2018 (AFP)
"Many people say that we must get rid of air transport because we will never be able to deal with emissions and noise, but this is an outdated approach," said N...
Two soldiers killed in Kentucky copter crash: army
Apr 07, 2018 (AFP)
The incident involving an AH-64E Apache helicopter occurred late Friday, said a statement from the army's 101st Airborne Division. The crash is under investigat...
Boeing to produce Super Hornets, Growlers for Navy
Apr 06, 2018 (UPI)
The deal, announced Thursday by the Department of Defense, is valued at more than $54.3 million under the terms of a modified fixed-price-incentive-firm contrac...
State Dept. OKs deal for helos, radio equipment for Spain
Apr 05, 2018 (UPI)
The pending deal includes the sale of 17 modified CH-47F cargo helicopters, 21 AN/AAR-57 common missile warning systems and 42 GPS inertial navigation systems, ...
Boeing completes fuel certification testing of KC-46 tankers
Apr 05, 2018 (UPI)
The test, required by the Federal Aviation Administration, involved transferring 146,000 pounds of fuel from one tanker to a second one during a 3-hour, 48-minu...
Rockwell Collins to upgrade T-1A Jayhawks
Apr 05, 2018 (UPI)
The Iowa-based company announced the contract Wednesday in a news release, which said the deal includes upgrades on 178 Air Force T-1A aircraft. Rockwell Collin...
US to sell European allies $4.7bn in military aircraft
Apr 04, 2018 (AFP)
All three countries are NATO members, and the sale of F-16 fighters to Slovakia will enable it to retire its Russian-built MiG-29s and build a fleet to work wit...
US F-16 crashes near Las Vegas, third crash in two days
Apr 04, 2018 (AFP)
"An Air Force F-16 assigned to Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, crashed at approximately 10:30 am during routine training on the Nevada Test and Training Range," ...
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