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QinetiQ secures deal to scope upgrade to Royal Canadian Air Force ranges

Air July 16, 2020

QinetiQ has been awarded a one-year contract, with an additional option year, by the Royal Canadian Air Force’s (RCAF) Air Warfare Centre to develop a roadmap for the modernisation of RCAF Air Weapons ranges, which will enable the combination of live and virtual environments for collaborative team training. The modernised air ...

UK at the forefront of space exploration with biomining experiment

Air July 16, 2020

UK scientists are conducting a biomining experiment in space to investigate the effects of microbes on asteroidal material in space under microgravity conditions. BioAsteroid, a biomining experiment, uses a collection of 12 automatic culturing devices fitted with a layer of material on which the bacteria will be grown in the KUBIK ...

GE Aviation awarded propulsion systems contract by JMOD

Air July 16, 2020

GE Aviation Distribution Japan has been awarded a contract valued at 18.8 billion Japanese Yen (USD $203 million) from the Japan Ministry of Defense (JMOD) for CF6-80C2K1F Propulsion Systems to power Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF) C-2 transport aircraft. The JASDF C-2 is positioned as a key strategic aircraft for “mobile/deployment ...

Northrop Grumman’s FAAD C2 system selected by the US DoD

Air July 16, 2020

Northrop Grumman’s Forward Area Air Defense Command and Control (FAAD C2) system has been selected by the US Department of Defense (DOD) as the interim command and control system for future Counter-Small Unmanned Aerial System (C-sUAS) procurements. The decision follows the findings of a service board established by the DOD’s Joint ...