Bird Aerosystems has specialized in the manufacturing of Special Mission Aircraft Solutions (ASIO) and Airborne Missile Protection Systems (AMPS) for different customers around the world, including NATO forces, the United Nations, and the United States Government. The firm has just released the newest version of the Airborne Missile Protection System that will be used on the multi-purpose MI-8 Helicopters for the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Learn MoreIn April 2015, Raytheon, the 4th-largest American defense contractor by revenue, has been awarded a contract for Patriot air and missile defense system enhancements. Granted by the United States Army Aviation and Missile Command, the USD$212 million contract calls for Raytheon to provide a series of services which include software development, systems analysis, testing and logistics support, and country-specific systems requirements.
Learn MoreIn March of 2015, Sierra Nevada Space System announced its formal entry into the running for NASA’s Commercial Resupply Services 2 (CRS-2) contract. The CRS-2 competition, seeking proposals for an unmanned cargo supply carrier servicing the International Space Station, is currently undergoing its second round of bids. Sierra Nevada will offer a supply carrier-modified Dream Chaser spacecraft, a variant of their submission for the NASA Commercial Crew Program’s “space taxi” contract, decided in 2014. Although Sierra Nevada lost out to Boeing and SpaceX for the manned spacecraft contract, the company hopes their cargo version will prevail in the new contract.
Learn MoreEarlier this month, Orbital Sciences and Alliant Techsystems officially confirmed a merger into a consolidated aerospace and defense company, newly renamed Orbital ATK. The combination of Orbital Sciences (which specialized in satellite technology) and Alliant Techsystems (which specialized in rocket and missile propulsion) will increase the entity’s competitiveness in government defense contracts requiring integrated, comprehensive systems. Scheduled for March 2015, NASA has enlisted Orbital ATK in testing the booster avionics system (including hardware, software, and ground systems) of its Space Launch System (SLS) rocket.
Learn MoreThe United States Air Force has put out two research contracts to 3D Systems (3DS) to develop advanced manufacturing 3D printing capabilities.
Learn MoreFounded in 1965 and based in Meriden, Connecticut, Canberra is a unit of Areva – a French multinational group specializing in nuclear and renewable energy. The company maintains facilities in Meriden and Concord, Ontario which are both compliant with ISO 9001: 2008 standards. Canberra manufactures an extensive library of products for multiple uses across industries. Specializing in radiation devices, Canberra produces products for the following end markets: fuel cycle (including devices for measurement of uranium, plutonium, actinides, and transuranic wastes), nuclear power (including monitors of ALARA radiation exposure levels to personnel and environmental radiological conditions), environmental and radiochemistry laboratories, military, nuclear security and safeguards (for fixed, mobile, or portable detectors), and research and education (for use in materials analysis or physics and space studies).
Learn MoreSaab Group, a Swedish aerospace and defense company and parent of the car manufacturer Saab Automobile, has just signed a deal worth an estimated $5.4 billion with the Brazilian government to supply its Air Force with the next-generation Gripen NG fighter. Under this new contract with the Brazilian Defense Ministry, the Saab Group will supply a total of 36 aircraft which include 28 single-seat and 8 two-seat aircraft, which will be delivered between 2019 through 2024.
Learn MoreIn 1919, Clessie Cummins, an Indiana mechanic at the time, founded the Cummins Engine Company with a focus on further developing the new engine technology that was pioneered about 20 years earlier by Rudolf Diesel. It was not until 1933 that the company unveiled its first successful engine, the Model H, which was used in railroad switchers. The company experienced large success once World War II came around as they became a leader in producing heavy duty truck engines. With their new (at the time) N series engines, they captured more than half of the market share of engines between 1952 and 1959.
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