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Lockheed Wins Additional $4.7Bn for Next 78 F-35 Fighters
Lockheed Martin Corp., Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co., Fort Worth, Texas, is awarded a $4,708,927,970 modification (P00033) to previously-awarded fixed-price-incentive-firm-target, firm-fixed-price c

HAL Completes Su-30MKI Production, Expects More Orders to Follow Soon
NEW DELHI --- State-owned Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) has recorded a turnover of more than INR 21,100 crore ($3 billion) for the financial year ending on 31 March 2020. The company said that t

Captain Asks US Navy to Save Carrier Crew from Coronavirus
The captain of a nuclear aircraft carrier with more than 100 sailors infected with the coronavirus pleaded Monday with U.S. Navy officials for resources to allow isolation of his entire crew and avoid

Why US Should Not Bail Out Boeing: POGO
The coronavirus epidemic has already transformed the country, disrupting industries nationwide and causing thousands of Americans to lose their jobs. Congress recently approved over $2 trillion in spe...

Lockheed Wins Additional $4.7Bn for Next 78 F-35 Fighters
Lockheed Martin Corp., Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co., Fort Worth, Texas, is awarded a $4,708,927,970 modification (P00033) to previously-awarded fixed-price-incentive-firm-target, firm-fixed-price c...

HAL Completes Su-30MKI Production, Expects More Orders to Follow Soon
NEW DELHI --- State-owned Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) has recorded a turnover of more than INR 21,100 crore ($3 billion) for the financial year ending on 31 March 2020. The company said that t...

Captain Asks US Navy to Save Carrier Crew from Coronavirus
The captain of a nuclear aircraft carrier with more than 100 sailors infected with the coronavirus pleaded Monday with U.S. Navy officials for resources to allow isolation of his entire crew and avoid...

Defense Workers Pressured to Defy Virus and Keep Working
The Pentagon is confronting some defense workers with a wrenching choice: go to the factory floor to keep building destroyers, fighter aircraft and missiles and risk infecting each other and their com...

Congressional JSF Caucus is A Logic-Free Zone
At some point, one must simply admire the resolve of the Congressional Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) Caucus, who continue to push for inflated spending despite the preponderance of bad press surrounding ...

Lockheed Wins $203M for F-35 Software Builds
Lockheed Martin Corp., Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co., Fort Worth, Texas, is awarded a $202,800,000 cost-plus-incentive-fee, undefinitized contract that provides engineering, maintenance, logistics m...

Pentagon Pays Lockheed $23M to Sell F-35s to Belgium
Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co., Fort Worth, Texas, is awarded a $22,902,038 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract that integrates the government of Belgium into the F-35 Lightning II combat aircraft enterpris...

Lockheed Wins $426M for ATACMS Missile Production
Lockheed Martin Corp., Grand Prairie, Texas, was awarded a $426,292,567 modification (P00007) to contract W31P4Q-19-C-0092 for building missiles and launch assemblies. Work will be performed in Gr...

Russian Nuclear-Powered Sub Completes Trials After Repairs
MOSCOW --- Shipbuilders have completed the after-repair trials of the Project 971 nuclear-powered submarine Vepr, Russian Navy spokesman Igor Dygalo said on Thursday. During the trials at the North...

Raytheon Wins $378M to Replace IBM Equipment in GPS OCX
Raytheon Co., Aurora, Colorado, has been awarded a $378,129,190 bi-laterally negotiated contract modification (P00314) to previously-awarded contract FA8807-10-C-0001 - Global Positioning System Next ...

Japan Sets Up Team to Develop New Fighter Jet
The Defense Ministry-affiliated Acquisition, Technology and Logistics Agency on Wednesday set up a dedicated team to develop the successor to Japan’s retiring F-2 fighter jet. The team will be led ...

Baltic Air Police Mission Continues Despite COVID-19
SIAULIAI, Lithuania --- One example of Allies accomplishing the mission can be seen at Siauliai, Lithuania, where since September 2019, a Belgian Air Force F-16 detachment has been deployed to safegua...

China Lays Keel for Second Type 054A Frigate for Pakistan
SHANGHAI --- The keel-laying ceremony for the second Type 054A/P missile frigate destined for the Pakistani Navy was held at the Hudong–Zhonghua Shipyard in China’s Shanghai on March 23. Officials fro...

GA-ASI Completes First Production-Representative MQ-9B SkyGuardian
SAN DIEGO --- General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) has completed the first production-representative MQ-9B SkyGuardian® Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA). First flight of this aircraft to...

Pentagon Asks to Keep Future Spending Secret
The Department of Defense is quietly asking Congress to rescind the requirement to produce an unclassified version of the Future Years Defense Program (FYDP) database. Preparation of the unclassifi...

S. Korea Develops Indigenous Port Surveillance System
South Korea has developed a new port surveillance system with indigenous technologies that can better detect increasingly quiet submarines and other underwater moving objects, the arms procurement age...

Work on Russian Amphibious Assault Ships Behind Schedule
Work on a pair of upgraded amphibious assault ships for the Russian Navy is falling behind schedule. A source in the Russian shipbuilding industry told state-owned media outlet TASS on Tuesday that...

Spain’s Defense Market Hard Hit By COVID-19 Crisis
The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic that has swept the globe has come down particularly hard in Spain. The number of confirmed infections continues to grow day by day, placing the European natio...

US, Japanese Air Forces Maintain Pacific Weasel Exercise
MISAWA AIR BASE, Japan --- Members of the 13th and 14th Fighter Squadrons, Misawa Air Base, Japan, executed exercise Pacific Weasel over Draughon Range, March 27. The 35th Fighter Wing began practi...

Pentagon Details Response to COVID-19 Pandemic
The Defense Department is rapidly ramping up its efforts to fight COVID-19 and assist federal, state and local governments in their efforts. Some of DOD's activities include: -- New York The Ar...

Kongsberg Marine Launches New LARS Solution for HUGIN
It’s been one year since KM doubled in size through a large acquisition, and in a normal version of life we would have celebrated at our locations this week. Instead we are celebrating by sharing a st...

Airshow China Schedule Unchanged Despite COVID-19
While several air shows around the world have been cancelled due to the ongoing novel coronavirus pneumonia (COVID-19) pandemic, the most important one in China, the Airshow China, remains set to take...

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