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February 7, 2012 AAI Test & Training Receives $7.7 Million Award to Provide ABE® for U.S. Air Force, SOCOM
    16 Systems to Support Bell Boeing CV-22 Osprey      Hunt Valley, Md. — February 7, 2012 — AAI Test & Training, an operating unit of Textron Systems, a Textron Inc. (NYSE: TXT) company, announced today that it has received a $7.7 million Advanced Boresight Equipment (ABE) award from the Defense Logistics Agency to provide 16 Model 310A ABE core test systems for the U.S. Air Force and Special Operations Command (SOCOM) Bell Boeing CV-22 Osprey fleets.   The company has already delivered more than 40 ABE systems to the Air Force supporting more than 10 different aircraft platforms. In addition, SOCOM has utilized AAI Test & Training’s ABE to align its fixed-wing... Read More
   
January 30, 2012 AAI Logistics & Technical Services Awarded U.S. Air Force Contract for B-1B Training System Support
  Total Potential Value of $162 Million Over Seven Years Hunt Valley, Md. - January 30, 2012 - AAI Logistics & Technical Services, an operating unit of Textron Systems, a Textron Inc. (NYSE: TXT) company, announced today that the company has received an award from the U.S. Air Force at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base to provide logistics support and concurrency modifications for the B-1B Training System. The award has a total potential value of $162 million over seven years. Under this award, AAI Logistics & Technical Services will be responsible for operating the B-1B Training System Support Center, located at Dyess Air Force Base in Texas, and providing contractor logistics su... Read More
   
January 23, 2012 AAI Unmanned Aircraft Systems and ViaSat Enter Strategic Alliance
  Aligns State-of-the-Art UAS With Beyond-Line-of-Sight Communications and Network Security HUNT VALLEY, Md. and CARLSBAD, Calif., Jan. 23, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- AAI Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS), an operating unit of Textron Systems, a Textron Inc. (NYSE:TXT) company, and ViaSat Inc. (Nasdaq:VSAT) announced today that the organizations have entered into a strategic alliance to align AAI's advanced unmanned aircraft and command and control technologies with ViaSat integrated airborne and terrestrial satellite communications, as well as its Internet Protocol-based networking and security technology. Under the agreement, the organizations intend to develop and mature beyond-line-of-sight s... Read More
   
   
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August 15, 2011 Two Textron Systems experts will serve as panelists at the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) Unmanned Systems North America 2011 event.