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Airbus will continue to provide spare parts, related materials and engineering support for the U.S. Army’s fleet of 482 UH-72A and UH-72B Lakota utility and training helicopters under a potential five-year, $1.5 billion follow-on contract. Airbus said Monday its U.S. space and defense business will oversee the Contractor Logistics Support contract...
The National Reconnaissance Office has awarded contracts to Airbus’ U.S. arm, Capella Space, ICEYE, Umbra and PredaSAR to develop commercial radar systems. NRO said Thursday it issued a broad agency announcement framework for strategic commercial enhancements in October 2021 with commercial radar as the first focus area. The agency’s Strategic C...
Airbus‘ U.S. space and defense business arm will continue providing logistics support services for the U.S. Army’s UH-72 Lakota light utility helicopters under a one-year, $119.8 million contract modification. Work in Grand Prairie, Texas, will be extended through June 30, 2022, and the Army Contracting Command will fund the work extensi...
Searchlight Capital Partners, a private investment firm, has agreed to buy Technical Airborne Components from TransDigm Group (NYSE: TDG) for an undisclosed sum. Belgium-based TAC designs and produces rods and struts for helicopters, commercial planes, military aircraft and space programs and operates with about 170 employees, the companies said in ...
Derek Tournear, director of the Space Development Agency (SDA), has been named as a winner of the highly prestigious and coveted Wash100 Award this year. Executive Mosaic has honored Tournear with a 2021 Wash100 Award for his leadership and commitment to satellite tech as well as maintaining an advantage for the U.S. over the space...
The Space Development Agency upheld its decision to award contracts to L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) and SpaceX to build missile tracking satellites for the proposed National Defense Space Architecture following the reevaluation of bids for the contracts, C4ISRNET reported Thursday....
The Space Development Agency has asked companies that competed for contracts to build missile-tracking satellites for the proposed national defense space architecture to resubmit bids for reevaluation, SpaceNews reported Tuesday....
TransDigm Group (NYSE: TDG) has agreed to acquire a Cobham subsidiary focused on providing antennas and radio systems for the aerospace end market. TransDigm will use existing cash on hand to finance the $965M acquisition of Cobham Aero Connectivity and expects the transaction to close during the third quarter of calendar year 2021, subject to regu...
Airbus is restructuring its U.S. operations into a new business unit - Airbus U.S. Space and Defense - as part of a special security agreement with the U.S. government in an effort to further build up its presence in the space, defense and intelligence markets....
Defense industry leaders Steve Worley and Chris Emerson have joined the board of directors of HawkEye 360, a Herndon, Va.-based radio frequency data analytics company....
