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  October 6, 2022 | International, Aerospace

  AEI buys York Space Systems, hires former Airbus executive Emerson

  Company makes low-Earth orbit, geosynchronous equatorial orbit and "cislunar" spacecraft that operate between the earth and the moon.

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  July 16, 2018 | International, Aerospace

  Pentagon reaches handshake deal with Lockheed on newest batch of F-35s

  By: Valerie Insinna LONDON — The Pentagon and Lockheed Martin have reached a handshake deal for the eleventh batch of F-35 joint strike fighters, the Pentagon's top acquisistion official confirmed July 15. The lot 11 order will be the largest so far for the F-35 program, purchasing 141 jets for U.S. and international customers. "The JPO and Lockheed Martin have made progress and are in the final stages of negotiation on the Lot 11 production contract,” said Ellen Lord, the Pentagon's undersecretary for acquisition and sustainment, in a statement. “We have a handshake agreement which symbolizes the Department of Defense's commitment to not only equip our warfighters with the world's greatest fifth generation aircraft, but it also represents great value to the U.S. taxpayers, our allies and international partners. With each production lot, the F-35 unit recurring flyaway costs continue to come down across the board.” Neither the Defense Department nor Lockheed disclosed either the total contract value nor the unit costs of the latest order, but a Lockheed spokesperson said the company remains on track to decrease the unit cost of an F-35A conventional takeoff and landing model — the most widely used variant — to $80 million by 2020. In a statement, the Lockheed spokesperson stated that the total contract value and price per copy would be released once the contract was finalized, but the “unit price for all three F-35 variants went down significantly in the latest negotiation, demonstrating the program's continued progress, maturity and cost reduction.” A contract for the tenth lot of low rate initial production (LRIP) F-35s, as announced in February 2017, lowered the price of an F-35A to $94.6 million — the first time any version of the joint strike fighter had been sold for less than $100 million. The F-35B jump-jet model used by the U.S. Marine Corps came in at $122.8 million, while the F-35C carrier version sat at $121.8 million. Lockheed and the Pentagon took longer to reach a final contract agreement than either party would have liked, as the department's F-35 Joint Program Office had hoped to finalize an LRIP 11 contract last year. However, the deal could represent a sea change for the relationship, which soured considerably during the LRIP 9 and 10 negotiations. After months of LRIP 9 negotiations went nowhere, the JPO in 2016 forced Lockheed Martin to abide by a unilateral contract action, which allowed the Pentagon to set the price of an aircraft and Lockheed's fee without input from the company. Then, F-35 costs came under fire from President Donald Trump, who publicly lambasted the program and positioned Boeing's Super Hornet as an alternative. The pressure helped the Pentagon and Lockheed make a deal on LRIP 10 in February 2017, with unit costs reduced by about 7.5 percent when compared with the ninth batch of jets. The announcement of the today's deal follows a $2 billion contract award made to Pratt & Whitney in May for the eleventh batch of F-35 engines. Pratt manufactures the F135 engine used in every version of the jet. Going forward, Lockheed and the Pentagon will negotiate lots 12, 13 and 14 together as part of a block buy that will initially encompass international orders but could also accommodate the U.S. services as early as lot 13. The Lockheed spokesman stated that the LRIP 11 deal “along with the technical stability of the aircraft, puts us on a great path to negotiate Lots 12, 13 and 14 as a Block Buy, which will generate additional savings for our customers.” https://www.defensenews.com/breaking-news/2018/07/15/pentagon-reaches-handshake-deal-with-lockheed-on-newest-batch-of-f-35s/

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  May 3, 2019 | International, Aerospace, C4ISR

  La TeleScop signe avec Airbus Defence and Space

  Par Anthony Rey La TeleScop, start-up coopérative montpelliéraine spécialisée en télédétection et cartographie, annonce un accord de partenariat avec Airbus Defence and Space : elle va assurer la distribution de ses produits et services en matière d'imagerie spatiale. Première société coopérative et participative (scop) spécialisée dans les services en télédétection spatiale et cartographie, la TeleScop a annoncé, le 30 avril, la signature d'une convention de partenariat avec Airbus Defence and Space, la branche Espace du groupe Airbus. La start-up coopérative va désormais assurer la distribution des produits et services d'Airbus Defence and Space destinés aux entreprises et organisations intéressées par l'observation de la Terre par satellite, avec cette plus-value par rapport aux autres distributeurs du groupe : l'accompagnement des entreprises à l'exploitation des données. Cofondateur de la TeleScop à Montpellier en 2018, Bastien Nguyen Duy-Bardakji a déjà collaboré avec Airbus, entre 2011 et 2016, au sein de GeoSud, un Centre international de télédétection et information spatiale pour le développement durable créé à Montpellier dans le cadre du Programme Investissements d'Avenir. "Son expertise en capteurs satellitaires et imagerie spatiale ainsi que sa connaissance des thématiques d'application ont convaincu Airbus de poursuivre la collaboration en confiant à la TeleScop la diffusion de ses produits et services auprès des utilisateurs français et européens", fait savoir la scop montpelliéraine. Techniquement, la TeleScop distribuera une gamme de produits adressant différents besoins client : produits d'optique à très haute résolution spatiale, données radar, modèles numériques de terrain, etc. Elle proposera aussi son appui dans l'utilisation de services thématique d'Airbus, notamment dans l'agriculture de précision, la déforestation, ou la cartographie des terres émergées. Créée en septembre 2018, la TeleScop compte quatre salariés. Elle affiche plusieurs collaborations en cours avec des bureaux d'études (Dark Sky Lab), des laboratoires de recherche (LOTERR, TETIS), des développeurs de logiciels libres (Mkina Coprus), etc. https://objectif-languedoc-roussillon.latribune.fr/entreprises/industrie/2019-05-02/la-telescop-signe-avec-airbus-defence-and-space-815895.html