Yearly Archive: 2020

Lockheed Wins $10M to Maintain F-35 Chase Aircraft

Lockheed Wins $10M to Maintain F-35 Chase Aircraft

Lockheed Martin Corp., Fort Worth, Texas, is awarded a $9,825,609 modification (P00039) to previously awarded cost-plus-fixed-fee contract N00019-17-C-0001.

This modification exercises an option to perform Chase aircraft maintenance for Lot 12 F-35 Lighting II aircraft for the Navy, Marine Corps…

How to Restore Competition, Fair Pricing to Government Contracting

How to Restore Competition, Fair Pricing to Government Contracting

WASHINGTON, D.C.⁠ — The American Economic Liberties Project today released “Caveat Emptor: Reversing the Anti-Competitive and Over-Pricing Policies That Plague Government Contracting,” a new report detailing how the government contracting process has been transformed to the almost exclusive benefi…
US Navy Begins Training TH-73A Instructor Pilots

US Navy Begins Training TH-73A Instructor Pilots

PHILADELPHIA — Instructor pilot training for the new TH-73A Advanced Helicopter Training System (AHTS) began in June with the first two instructor pilots from Training Air Wing (TAW) 5 getting classroom and hands-on experience at the AgustaWestland Philadelphia Corporation (Leonardo) facility in P…
Thales Upgrades Royal Navy Minehunter Despite Covid

Thales Upgrades Royal Navy Minehunter Despite Covid

HMS Pembroke recently became the Royal Navy’s most modern Mine Counter-Measures Vessel (MCMV) after being equipped with a new state-of-the-art mine counter-measures Command System.

The new generation of command and control system that Thales is deploying across the entire fleet of Royal Navy Mine…

US Air Force Unveils New Space Force Structure

US Air Force Unveils New Space Force Structure

ARLINGTON, Va. — The Department of the Air Force and the United States Space Force have finalized the new service’s organizational structure for echelons below the headquarters, reflecting the newest branch of the armed forces’ guiding principles of being a lean, agile and mission-focused organiza…
Boeing Delivers 2,500th AH-64 Apache Helicopter

Boeing Delivers 2,500th AH-64 Apache Helicopter

MESA, Ariz. — Boeing recently delivered its 2,500th AH-64 Apache helicopter, an E-model Apache for the U.S. Army, from the company’s production line in Mesa, Arizona.

The first production AH-64, an A-model Apache, rolled off the assembly line on September 30, 1983, and was delivered by Boeing h…

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