Aerospace-Defense News

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El Paso, TX, May 17, 2013 - U.S. Army and Lockheed Martin officials commissioned the first U.S. Department of Defense grid-tied microgrid integrating both renewable resources and energy storage during a ribbon cutting ceremony at Fort Bliss, Texas.

Sir Roger Carr, the President of the CBI, has emerged as the leading candidate to chair defence contractor BAE Systems.

THE PUBLIC are being asked to comment on a project to build a renewable energy park in Puriton - which could create thousands of jobs.

U.S. stocks rose, giving the Standard & Poor's 500 Index its fourth straight week of gains, as gauges for leading indicators and consumer sentiment advanced more than estimated.

Jobs at the BAE Systems shipyard in Williamstown could be lost, the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union says.

General Electric Co. and Boeing Co . are alerting airlines about a possible problem with Boeing's 777 jumbo jet engines, Reuters reports.

Two U.S. lawmakers urged Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel to ensure that the Air Force complied with a law requiring the service to buy three high-altitude Global Hawk unmanned planes built by Northrop Grumman Corp that it had tried to cancel.

Northrop Grumman employees mate the fuselage with the wings of a Triton unmanned aircraft at the company's production facility in Palmdale, Calif.

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VT Halter Marine Inc, a subsidiary of VT Systems Inc., announced the arrival of a 12,000 MT Floating Dry Dock transported by a heavy lift vessel from the Philippines.

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A technician operates a CAE-built A330-200 passenger plane flight simulator at the Lufthansa Flight Training centre in Berlin, in this file photo.

Rockwell Collins announced several leadership changes within Commercial Systems and International & Service Solutions as the company continues the development of talent from within.

Gulfstream Aerospace Corp. recently released an update to the company's PlaneBooka iPad application, an electronic document management system that has helped pilots and flight crew operate Gulfstream aircraft more safely and effectively since 2011.

The U.S. Navy plans to fly the drone that was the first unmanned jet to take off from an aircraft carrier on a series of tests that will culminate in its first-ever landing aboard a ship this summer, an official said.

The Boeing Co. expects to add about 600 information technology jobs in North Charleston during the next three years as the company reshuffles its IT workforce, according to an initial company estimate.

A U.S. District Court Judge has dismissed part of a lawsuit that attempted to keep Honeywell International from disposing of waste in Camillus from the Onondaga Lake dredging project.

Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch has purchased Moraga Estate vineyard in Bel Air, Los Angeles, for a reported US$29.5m. 'Beautiful small vineyard'... Moraga The chairman of News Corp has bought the 6ha estate from industrialist Thomas Jones, ex-CEO of Northrop Grumman , a defense company which makes unmanned surveillance planes - or drones - for the ... (more)

's stock had its "buy" rating reiterated by equities research analysts at Deutsche Bank in a research note issued to investors on Wednesday, Analyst Ratings Network reports.