FCS Rolls on, Boeing Receives Another $219M

FCS Rolls on, Boeing Receives Another $219M

The Boeing Co. in St. Louis, MO received a $219.2M increment as part of a $17.35 billion cost-plus-fixed-fee/ cost-plus-incentive-fee contract for the Future Combat System development and demonstration phase. Boeing and SAIC are the lead system integrators for this...
FCS Rolls on, Boeing Receives Another $219M

Thales Sale May Create Strong Optical Competitor

Thales and Candover Investments plc have reached agreement on the sale of Thales High Tech Optics (HTO) activities in the UK, US, Singapore, Germany and Hungary. Under the agreement, Candover has acquired the businesses, regarded as non-strategic for Thales, for a...
FCS Rolls on, Boeing Receives Another $219M

$153.3M to Support US Navy’s T-45 Pilot Training System

T-45 Goshawks(click to view full) In 1981, the T45TS beat out the Dassault/Dornier Alpha Jet in a bid to replace two US Navy training aircraft (the TA-4J Skyhawk and T-2C Buckeye). The system trains U.S. Navy and Marine Corps pilots for conversion into the F/A-18A-D...
FCS Rolls on, Boeing Receives Another $219M

nVidia Graphic Processors for F/A-18… The Fighter, not the Computer Game

The game… Honeywell International, Inc. Defense and Space Electronic Systems in Albuquerque, NM received a $5.2 million firm-fixed-price contract for a Life of Type buy of 7,020 Quantum 3D/nVidia graphic processors. The chips to be used in the image processor...