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Northrop Grumman to service Army ISR aircraft

Dec 22, 2017 (UPI)

The contract, which covers 75 fixed-wing airborne intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance planes -- including RC-12X Guardrail, the Enhanced Medium Altitu...

Lockheed Martin receives $7B for F-22 sustainment

Dec 22, 2017 (UPI)

The terms of the deal were announced Thursday in a press statement released by the Department of Defense. The contract is classified under a indefinite-delivery...

L-3 awarded $79.3M contract to support Air Force Jayhawks

Dec 22, 2017 (UPI)

The deal, announced Friday by the Department of Defense, is under the terms of a firm-fixed-price contract for "contractor operated and maintained base supply o...

Boeing to upgrade Air Force E-3 Sentry cockpits

Dec 22, 2017 (UPI)

The deal, announced Thursday by the Department of Defense, is worth more than $46.3 million under the terms of a firm-fixed-price and cost-plus-fixed fee contra...

NASA Flights Advance Celestial Schlieren Imagery for Supersonic Aircraft

Dec 21, 2017 (SPX)

Thanks to the completion of a recent flight test series at NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center in California, the agency is a step closer to being able to v...

Aerion and Lockheed Martin team up for first supersonic business jet

Dec 21, 2017 (SPX)

Aerion Chairman Robert M. Bass stated, "This relationship is absolutely key to creating a supersonic renaissance. When it comes to supersonic know-how, Lockheed...

X-57 Battery System Survives Flight-Condition, Thermal Runaway Testing

Dec 21, 2017 (SPX)

The testing validated that the battery system has the necessary capacity to safely power NASA's first manned X-plane in two decades, the X-57 Maxwell, for an en...

Russia working on new vertical takeoff fighter

Dec 18, 2017 (Sputnik)

Last month, the Russian Defense Ministry confirmed that work is under way on a new VTOL plane design. Deputy Defense Minister Borisov said that the naval aviati...

Boeing to support Air Force's fleet of AC-130U gunships

Dec 18, 2017 (UPI)

The $18.1 million deal, announced Friday by the Department of Defense, comes under the terms of a cost-plus-fixed-fee contract, which provides for cost-reimburs...

Canada halts plans to buy Boeing fighter jets in trade dispute

Dec 13, 2017 (UPI)

To replace its 30-year-old jets, Canada announced plans Tuesday to purchase older model F/A-18 fighter jets from Australia. The deal with Boeing would have prov...

US to give Lebanon its first attack helicopters

Dec 13, 2017 (AFP)

The landmark announcement came during a visit to Lebanon by General Joseph Votel, the top commander for US military forces in the Middle East. The US Department...

Draken International to buy surplus South African fighters

Dec 12, 2017 (UPI)

The sales contract, announced Tuesday by Denel, includes return to service and flight acceptance tests in South Africa and aircraft delivery to the United State...

Canada to buy 18 used Australian jetsw

Dec 12, 2017 (AFP)

A little more than a year after saying it would buy 18 Super Hornets for more than $5 billion, and amid trade tensions, Ottawa formally rejected the deal in fav...

General Atomics to provide ground control stations to Air Force

Dec 11, 2017 (UPI)

The deal, announced Friday by the Department of Defense, falls under the terms of a undefinitized contract for the production of block 30 ground control station...

Qatar signs $8-bn deal to buy 24 Typhoon fighters from UK

Dec 10, 2017 (AFP)

The $8-billion (6.8-billion-euro) deal was signed in Doha by Qatar's Defence Minister Khalid bin Mohammed al-Attiyah and his British counterpart, Gavin Williams...

Boeing praises Canada's purchase of used Australian fighter jets

Dec 08, 2017 (AFP)

"The Boeing Company respects the Canadian government's decision," it said in a statement, citing reports that Ottawa will buy the planes after breaking off talk...

Bell-Boeing awarded contract for materials, support of V-22 Osprey

Dec 08, 2017 (UPI)

The deal, announced Thursday by the Department of Defense, is worth more than $19.6 million under the terms of a firm-fixed-price contract, meaning that additio...

Qatar, France sign billion-dollar fighter jet deal amid Gulf crisis

Dec 07, 2017 (AFP)

The 1.1-billion-euro ($1.3 billion) order for Dassault Aviation warplanes, with an option for 36 more, comes as Qatar faces a trade and diplomatic boycott by Sa...

L-3 awarded $10.2M contract to support T-1A Jayhawk

Dec 07, 2017 (UPI)

The deal, announced Wednesday by the Department of Defense, is worth more than $10.2 million under the terms of a firm-fixed-price modification contract, meanin...

General Dynamics to support training software, hardware for Air Force

Dec 07, 2017 (UPI)

The deal, announced by General Dynamics on Wednesday, was made under the terms of a single award, indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract that taps th...