Yearly Archive: 2020

LUXEMBOURG — The NATO Support and Procurement (NSPA) will order an additional aircraft for the Multinational MRTT Fleet (MMF), further to Luxembourg’s decision to increase its participation in the programme from 200 to 1,200 flight hours.

The new aircraft will bring the MMF fleet to nine aircr…

TINKER AFB, Okla. — An eight-year project to install the Integrated Battle Station on the B-1B Lancer fleet has been completed ahead of schedule. Sixty aircraft went through the modification process that began in late 2012 and was completed in September 2020.

The Integrated Battle Station was d…

NORFOLK, VA. — Spearhead-class expeditionary fast transport vessel USNS Burlington (T-EPF-10) departed its hub port in Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek – Fort Story, Va., Saturday, September 26, in support of a three-month deployment in U.S. Southern Command’s area of responsibility.

Servi…

Raytheon Technologies, Woburn, Massachusetts is being awarded a sole-source contract in the amount of $212,760,106 under a Foreign Military Sale (FMS) case to the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

The contract type will be a hybrid firm-fixed-price, cost-plus-incentive-fee, cost-plus-fixed-fee and co…

This morning, Deputy Minister of Defense for the Management of the Armaments and Acquisitions Section Lubor Koudelka and Vladimír Matyáš, on behalf of the joint-stock company Tatra Defense Vehicle, signed a framework agreement for comprehensive service support for Pandur vehicles. It is worth CZK 2….

SAN DIEGO — General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) conducted captive carry Sparrowhawk Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (sUAS) flight demonstrations on September 16-17, 2020.

The Sparrowhawk aircraft is designed as an airborne launch and recovery demonstrator aircraft tailored to f…