HANSCOM AFB, Mass., 25 July 2012. Engineers at the Lockheed Martin (NYSE:LMT) Corp. Mission Systems & Sensors (MS2) segment in Owego, N.Y., will perform a major upgrade to early model F-16A/B jet fighters operated by the Royal Thai Air Force in Bangkok under terms of a $2.6 billion U.S. Air Force contract awarded this month.

AVIONICS INTELLIGENCE REPORT, 24 July 2012. The global avionics community is alive and well, as evidenced by a fruitful Farnborough International Airshow and a recent meeting of minds among the Avionics Europe Advisory Board, reveals Executive Editor Courtney E. Howard in The Avionics Intelligence Report.

THE MIL & AERO VIDEO BLOG, 17 July 2012. The 2012 Farnborough International Airshow is in the books, and although the event started out slowly, it turned into a near-record event for commercial and military aircraft sales. By my count, 800 aircraft were sold in and around the show -- with 500 firm orders and 300 options and conditional sales, as John Keller reports this week in the Mil & Aero Video Blog.

BENE BERAQ, Israel, 16 July 2012. The Elbit Systems Ltd. EW and SIGINT - Elisra segment in Bene Beraq, Israel, is joining forces with Danish defense company Terma A/S in Lystrup, Denmark, to develop airborne electronic warfare (EW) and aircraft survivability equipment.

FARNBOROUGH, England, 15 July 2012. The 2012 Farnborough International Airshow comes to an official end today with deals completed for about 800 aircraft worth $72 billion, which is up substantially from the Farnborough show two years ago when airplane manufacturers inked deals worth a collective $47 billion for about 835 aircraft.

FARNBOROUGH, England, 15 July 2012. Bombardier Aerospace in Montreal today concluded its week at the 2012 Farnborough International Airshow with announcements of as much as $3.27 billion in firm orders and other commitments for its Q400 NextGen, CRJ, and CSeries aircraft, Bombardier officials say.

FARNBOROUGH, England, 12 July 2012. Boeing (NYSE: BA) received an order today from United Continental Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: UAL) and its wholly owned subsidiary, United Airlines, Inc., for 150 737 family aircraft, including 100 of the new 737 MAX 9.

FARNBOROUGH, England, 12 July 2012. Halifax, Nova Scotia-based Chorus Aviation Inc., the parent company of Jazz Aviation LP ("Jazz"), has placed a firm order for six Bombardier Q400 NextGen airliners.

FARNBOROUGH, England, 12 July 2012. In what was turning out to be lackluster aircraft sales this week at the Farnborough International Airshow in Farnborough, England, Boeing saved the best for last, announcing a 150-plane deal late Thursday to airline giant United Airlines.

FARNBOROUGH, England, 12 July 2012. The U.S. Air Force has selected Goodrich Corp., a supplier of defense and aerospace systems, to provide its DB-110 airborne reconnaissance system for the Royal Saudi Air Force F-15S Modernization Program.

FARNBOROUGH, England, 12 July 2012. Helicopter designer AgustaWestland, a Finmeccanica company based in Samarate, Italy, and Farnborough, England, has signed agreements to provide 70 helicopters this week at the Farnborough International Airshow in Farnborough, England. On Thursday AgustaWestland took orders for three VIP AW169 helicopters from Linfox, a supply-chain-management company based in Australia. Linfox will use the twin-engine medium-lift helicopter for corporate transport in the Melbourne area of Australia, AgustaWestland officials say.

FARNBOROUGH, England, 12 July 2012. Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] has received a contract from the Royal Air Force of Oman (RAFO) to provide additional Sniper Advanced Targeting Pods (ATP) for their F-16 fleet. The contract is worth $23 million.

FARNBOROUGH, England, 12 July 2012. European aircraft giant Airbus in Toulouse, France, made up for lost time Thursday at the Farnborough International Airshow in Farnborough, England, by taking orders and options for 62 aircraft, bringing the Airbus total sales at Farnborough by late Thursday to 123.

FARNBOROUGH, England, 12 July 2012. SkyWest Inc. in St. George, Utah, which operates U.S. regional carriers SkyWest Airlines and ExpressJet Airlines agreed in principle Wednesday to acquire 100 Mitsubishi Regional Jet (MRJ) regional aircraft from Mitsubishi Aircraft Corp. in Tokyo.

THE FARNBOROUGH BLOG, 12 July 2012. Think the upcoming U.S. presidential election could reverse downward trends in military spending? Well guess again; it won't says Clay Jones, chairman and CEO of avionics and defense electronics designer Rockwell Collins in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

FARNBOROUGH, England, 12 July 2012. Marshall Aerospace is building relationships with existing customers and strategic partners, including a number of leading airframe manufacturers in the military and commercial sectors, and is being entrusted to design and implement modifications to recent and yet-to-launch platforms.

FARNBOROUGH, England, 12 July 2012. Leaders of global interconnect specialist TE Connectivity in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, are working to expand the company's operations in Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), beginning with a TE Connectivity partnership with aviation wiring expert Promtechkomplekt Co Ltd (PTK) in Moscow.

FARNBOROUGH, England, 12 July 2012. Two major European helicopter manufacturers are teaming up to design an all-new single-engine light helicopter with a gross weight of 5,500 pounds -- similar to the Bell 214 B-1 -- for search-and-rescue, oil and gas, transport, and other applications.

FARNBOROUGH, England, 12 July 2012. Small unmanned aerial vehicle (UAVs) specialist Insitu Pacific in Queensland, Australia, won contracts at the Farnborough International Airshow in Farnborough, England, this week to supply ScanEagle small UAVs to Japan and Singapore.