Lockheed Martin has received a contract to upgrade the Modernized Target Acquisition Designation Sight/Pilot Night Vision Sensor, or M-TADS, for Japan’s fleet of AH-64 Apache helicopters. The contract includes performance based logistics support, with the plan to deliver 14 of the systems to the Japanese Self Defense Forces through 2020. The improved system is expected to…

The Marine Corps is setting up a pilot program to install Wi-Fi in its aviation hangars. The first such system started information at Marine Corps Air Station New River, North Carolina in January. Marine Corps Systems Command and Headquarters Marine Corps Command, Control, Communication and Computers, is overseeing the program. It is hoped that it will improve…

The test flight of Boeing’s second T-X trainer aircraft, in a partnership with Saab, took place on April 24th. The plane is marketed as a platform for advanced pilot training, with the US Air Force considered its primary customer. “The jet handled exactly like the first aircraft and the simulator, meeting all expectations,” Boeing Test…

Lockheed Martin has been given a $1.6 billion dollar contract to continue manufacturing it’s AN/TP-Q-53 counterfire radar, the company announced on Monday. Lockheed recently completed building it’s 100th unit of the system in January, and the contract includes service and support of the system, along with anticipated upgrades. The Q-53 system helps troops know what…

The U.S. Navy announced it is moving forward with it’s Ohio Replacement Program, designed to replace the venerable Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine. A key part of the program includes the missile compartment project, which the Electric Boat Corporation of Groton, Conn., secured in a contract worth $95.6 million to produce 17 ballistic missile tubes, according to the Department of…