Americas
SOFIS-TRG LLC won a $83 million single award contract for MQ-9 Aircrew Training Support. This contract provides for all personnel, equipment, tools, materials, supervision, and all other items and services required to perform and support MQ-9 Remotely Piloted Aircraft aircrew academic instruction; courseware development; and air and ground intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance test and training support. Work is expected to be completed by Aug. 31, 2029. Air Combat Command, Acquisition Management and Integration Center, Hampton, Virginia, is the contracting activity.
Boeing won aa?$14.8 million bilateral modification for the?F-15 Eagle Passive Active Warning Survivability System Low-Rate Initial Production. Work will be performed at ?Nashua, New Hampshire, and is expected to be completed by Dec. 31, 2026. This contract was a sole source acquisition. The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, Fighter and Advanced Aircraft Directorate, F-15 Division, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, is the contracting activity.
Middle East & Africa
Ten people including at least four fighters were killed Wednesday when a bomb-laden truck exploded at a checkpoint in Syria’s Turkish-controlled northern city of Azaz, a war monitor said. An AFP correspondent in the area said a booby-trapped truck had detonated at a checkpoint inside the city. “Ten people have been killed including at least four” Turkish-backed fighters, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Europe
The UK is researching a substitute communication system to maintain weapons and ammunition development without Wi-Fi connectivity. The British Defence Equipment & Support (DE&S) agency focuses on Light Fidelity (Li-Fi), a technology leveraging visible light, infrared, or ultraviolet waves to transmit data between devices. DE&S is now conducting evaluations of Li-Fi’s applications and accessibility at the Defence Munitions Gosport in Portsmouth.
Asia-Pacific
China has uncovered a new military surveillance and reconnaissance drone that perfectly resembles a small bird. Showcased during the founding anniversary of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), the biomimetic drone was made to look like a Eurasian tree sparrow and is believed to be an ornithopter. It replicates the wing-flapping motion of a bird in flight, making it virtually indistinguishable from real birds at a distance.
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