EADS is keen to make “reasonable” acquisitions in the field of defense security and services in the U.S. over the next few years, Chief Executive Louis Gallois said over the weekend.
The U.S. has the largest defense budget in the world and EADS has been trying for years to win a bigger share of that market. [...]
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Pentagon: high-tech intelligence tools more than big guns and heavy armor
Boeing has agreed to acquire Argon ST for USD775 million in a deal value that exceeds previous estimates for the C4ISR specialist, reflecting strong rival bidding from Boeing’s peers. This acquisition reflect a shift by defense contractors seeking to accommodate a Pentagon that now wants high-tech intelligence tools as much or more than big guns [...]
New Marine One (Boeing 101) will be too late for Obama
Since President Dwight Eisenhower started using them in the mid-1950s, helicopters have become a routine part of presidential life and the sight of the large green-and-white craft lifting off from the South Lawn of the White House a regular occurrence. Piloted by Marines, the chopper bearing the president goes by the call sign Marine One.
The [...]
Boeing, General Dynamics and ITT: $4.4 Bn for NextGen Engineering Contracts
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) awarded three separate Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen) contracts totaling up to $4.4 billion over 10 years. Under the contracts, the companies will perform work that will demonstrate NextGen procedures in real time on a large scale within the current air traffic system.
“NextGen is an economic opportunity that will [...]
Presidential Helo Competition Complicated
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June, 15 Boeing & AgustaWestland Agreement
June, 7 Presidential Helicopter Neverending Story
May, 5 AgustaWestland Will Bid on New Marine One
April 19, Sikorsky, Lockheed team to bid for US presidential helicopter
The myriad industrial relationships broken and reforged for the newly relaunched U.S. presidential helicopter competition seem to represent a larger trend in defense manufacturing. It’s not the world [...]
Boeing & AgustaWestland Agreement
Boeing Secures All Rights to AgustaWestland AW101 for US Navy VXX Presidential Helicopter Program
Boeing announced that it will secure a license from AgustaWestland for U.S. production of the AW101 medium-lift helicopter as an entry into the U.S. Navy VXX Presidential Helicopter Program. This license will give Boeing full intellectual property, data and production rights for [...]
Boeing Delivers New Gen Phased Array Antennas
The phased array antennas will provide net-enabled operations through high-speed line-of-sight communications and data transported over a common data link (CDL) radio system between the Zumwalt-class ship and various airborne platforms.
The Boeing Company has delivered the first production set of phased array antennas for the U.S. Navy’s Next Generation Zumwalt-class destroyers. The set was [...]
DRS and Boeing to Sign Teaming Agreement for NewGen Tanker
DRS announced the teaming agreement for the NewGen Tanker program with The Boeing Company.
DRS will collaborate with Boeing on the console design and then manufacture the Aerial Refueling Operator Station, also known as AROS contingent upon Boeing receiving the contract from the United States Air Force. In addition, DRS will provide the interconnect design and [...]
Presidential Helicopter Neverending Story
Presidential helicopters stand as a talisman, embodying the nuclear mission of the armed forces, America’s technological prowess and our government’s nearly religious concern for presidential safety.
Buying a foreign helicopter would seem downright unpatriotic to many Americans. But the government decided to buy just such a helicopter last time, the ill-fated VH-71. True, Lockheed Martin was [...]
Boeing Delivers Security Capabilities to US CBP for the Northern Border Project
Boeing has finished installing 10 remote video surveillance systems in the U.S. Border Patrol’s Detroit Sector, completing the company’s work on all available sites in the Northern Border Project. The systems, delivered to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), will enhance border surveillance capabilities along 37 miles of the St. Clair River — the border [...]
Boeing, General Dynamics and ITT: Up To $4.4 Bn for NextGen Engineering Contracts
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) today awarded three separate Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen) contracts totaling up to $4.4 billion over 10 years. Under the contracts, the companies will perform work that will demonstrate NextGen procedures in real time on a large scale within the current air traffic system.
“NextGen is an economic opportunity that [...]
Fincantieri and Boeing Strengthen Their Team in Bid for US Navy Hovercraft
Marinette Marine Corporation (MMC), Fincantieri’s US subsidiary, and Boeing have announced that Oceaneering International are to enter the team set up a year ago with a view to competing for the imminent tender for the “Ship-to-Shore Connector” (SSC) program which provides for the construction of 80 new generation hovercraft for the US Navy. The announcement [...]
SBINET in troubles: funds frozen
The Department of Homeland Security is pulling in the reins on a high-priced border “virtual fence” system plagued by cost overruns and missed deadlines since its launch four years ago.
Additional funding for the SBInet project will be frozen beyond two systems already going up along the U.S.-Mexico border near Sasabe and Ajo, the agency said [...]
SBINET in danger? No finish in sight for ‘virtual’ border fence
A multibillion-dollar “virtual fence” along the southwestern border promised for completion in 2009 to protect the U.S. from terrorists, violent drug smugglers and a flood of illegal immigrants is a long way from becoming a reality, with government officials unable to say when, how or whether it will ever be completed.
More than three years after [...]
Project Vigilare Command and Control System Passes Factory Acceptance Testing
Boeing Defence Australia, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Boeing Company, this week announced that Project Vigilare, a Network Centric Command and Control System (NC3S) solution for the Royal Australian Air Force, has passed factory acceptance testing. The system, already installed at the Northern Regional Operational Centre (NROC), will undergo on-site acceptance testing in March [...]
SBInet program on delays
SBInet director shares frustrations and progress on delays, tests and Boeing
But Mark Borkowski remains hopeful that SBInet will be a success
As executive director of the Homeland Security Department’s Secure Border Initiative, Mark Borkowski is in the unenviable position of overseeing SBInet, the border protection system that is as noteworthy for technical glitches and schedule delays [...]
Boeing Integrated Defense Systems Looks to Future with Leadership Changes
Boeing announced a series of new leadership assignments within its Integrated Defense Systems unit designed to build on continued strong performance of the company's defense, intelligence and space businesses, which earlier this week posted record financial results.
The leadership changes will place 14 senior executives in new roles , allowing each to bring a new perspective [...]