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$47.6M from SOCOM for Long Range IR

$47.6M from SOCOM for Long Range IR

MICAM Recon(click to view larger) FLIR Systems in North Billerica, Mass., USA received a $47.6 million firm-fixed-price contract for 5 to 705 Hand Held Imagers - Long Range (HHI-LR) and associated line items for the United States Special Operations Command's (US...

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Research Results: Developing Systems Engineers

Research Results: Developing Systems Engineers

(click for issue) The Spring 2007 issue of Crosslink Magazine focuses on the state of the US Aerospace industry's technical workforce - but many of its articles' topics and conclusions could easily apply to the defense industry as a whole: "As aerospace systems grow...

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$52.3M for FADEC Upgrades to F100-PW-220 Jet Engines

$52.3M for FADEC Upgrades to F100-PW-220 Jet Engines

F100-PW-220(click to view full) United Technologies subsidiary Pratt and Whitney Incorporated of Hartford, Conn. received a contract for $52.3 million, in exchange for 1,051 Digital Electronic Engine Controls VI for the F100-PW-220/220E engine fleet which powers many...

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USN: $8M to Make Journeyman Engineer Courses e-Learning

USN: $8M to Make Journeyman Engineer Courses e-Learning

Logistic Systems International Inc. in Jacksonville, Fla. received an $8 million modification to a previously awarded $10 million firm-fixed-price contract for instructor-led training (N61339-06-C-0166, announced Aug 30/06). the modification exercises the options to...

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Harball Sales: Russia Forcing India out of Taijikistan?

Harball Sales: Russia Forcing India out of Taijikistan?

Tajikistan(click to view full) Confronted by a waffling buyer, most vendors don't immediately think of hostile acts a preferred sales tactic to close the deal. Putin's Russia, on the other hand, seems to be taking exactly that approach as India remains locked in price...

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$86.1M for MTS Sensor/Targeting Turrets

$86.1M for MTS Sensor/Targeting Turrets

MQ-1 MTS turret(click to view full) Sept 13/07: Raytheon Company of McKinney, Texas received a firm-fixed-price contract for $86.1 million, in exchange for 27 AN/AAS-52 Multi-Spectral Targeting Systems Model A (MTS-A) and 54 MTS-A Retrofits to support the MQ-1...

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2 REMUS 600 Systems for UK Royal Navy

2 REMUS 600 Systems for UK Royal Navy

Remus 600(click to view full) Hydroid, LLC at the has carved out a very strong position in the global market for unmanned anti-mine underwater vehicles. Its modular Remote Environmental Measuring Unit (REMUS) systems were developed at the Woods Hole Oceanographic...

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Iran’s New Saegheh Fighter Enters Service

Iran’s New Saegheh Fighter Enters Service

Saegheh, IRIAF photo(click to view full) Back in September 2006, there was a bit of a kerfuffle in some quarters over an Iranian news agency (IRNA) announcement that quoted the commander of the Iranian army General Attollah Salehi as saying their new indigeous...

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Harpoon & JSOW Getting 2-way Datalinks

Harpoon & JSOW Getting 2-way Datalinks

UGM-84 Harpoon launch(click to view full) Rockwell Collins announced that it has been awarded an $18 million contract by Raytheon Missile Systems to design, develop, and produce the Strike Common Weapon Data Link for the JSOW Block III precision glide bomb and the...

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