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Boeing (NYSE: BA) unveiled the fighter-sized Phantom Ray unmanned airborne system, a test bed for advanced technologies. “We are on a fast track, and first flight is in sight, ” said Darryl Davis, president of Boeing Phantom Works. “Phantom Ray is on schedule to fly in December, about two years after this project began. This...
Boeing (NYSE: BA) successfully launched the Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV), also known as the X-37B, for the U.S. Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office. The OTV was launched on an Atlas V rocket into a low Earth orbit today at 7:52 p.m. Eastern time from Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 41. “The X-37B has the potential to...
According to the Department of Defense: “Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) was awarded a $33, 797, 589 contract which will provide sustainment support for the Minuteman Weapon System. At this time, $31, 797, 589 has been obligated. 526 ICBMSG/PKE, Hill Air Force Base, Utah, is the contracting activity (F42610-98-C-0001). Boeing (NYSE: BA) was a...
According to the Department of Defense: “Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) was awarded on April 14 a $142, 100, 000 firm-fixed-price contract. This contract is for procuring 17 fully integrated persistent threat detection systems, support equipment, and initial spares, to provide a responsive, dedicated day/night netted sensor capability that enab...
According to the Department of Defense, “General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) is being awarded a $5, 803, 648 modification to previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract (M67854-02-C-2052) to purchase one Combat Operations Center (COC) Capability Set II system, 10 duct plenum adapter kits and 10 generator environmental control unit tent-trailers. Th...
Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) and The Boeing Company (NYSE: BA) have completed joint captive flight tests for a air-to-ground missile seeker. The tests are for the tests for the Joint Air-to-Ground Missile competition that will replace three missiles in the U.S. inventory. “This test proved that all modes of the Raytheon-designed seeker work pr...
According to the Department of Defense, “Boeing (NYSE: BA) is being awarded a $10, 994, 224 modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract (N00019-09-C-0050) to provide 6, 600 flight hours of persistent intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance unmanned aircraft vehicle services in support of naval maritime missions. Work wil...
According to the Department of Defense: “Northrop Grumman (NYSE:NOC) was awarded a $49, 999, 051 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract providing operation and maintenance services for the combined tactical training ranges. Combined tactical training ranges provide live and virtual environment to support a broad range of mission essential tactical trai...
According to The New New Internet, Barbara Fast, vice president of Cyber Solutions at Boeing, “believes that the federal government will continue to increase spending levels on cybersecurity despite larger budgetary cutbacks. Over the next few year, Fast thinks that the Department of Defense will increase spending on both offensive and defen...
Kenya Airways and TAAG Linhas Aereas de Angola have signed up for the Boeing (NYSE: BA) Maintenance Performance Toolbox, as part of each airline’s program to enhance efficiency and improve dispatch reliability through the use of e-enabled technologies. Toolbox comprises six different tools in one easy-to-use suite of software products that an ...
