Aerojet Rocketdyne has opened a modernized facility in support of the LGM-35A Sentinel Program. The L3Harris Technologies company said Thursday that with Aerojet’s capital investment and the facility’s opening, the Sentinel hardware fabrication facility is now available for the final assembly of the Sentinel Post Boost Propulsion System.

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Aerojet Rocketdyne, an L3Harris Technologies subsidiary, has opened a new laboratory at its Camden, Arkansas, site to expand its solid rocket motor materials chemical testing capabilities supporting defense programs. The Camden laboratory provides 5,200 square feet of space to enable the company to move pressurized gas cylinders manually, install additional tensile testing stations and add an upgraded ventilation system for better airflow, L3Harris said Monday.

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Science Applications International Corp. will modify and sustain a ground-based radar sensor system under a contract with the U.S. Space Force. SAIC and L3Harris Technologies will work together to determine innovation opportunities to help the service branch perform missions in space awareness and missile warning. More

Martin UAV has secured a project to develop an unmanned aerial system with vertical takeoff and landing capability for the U.S. Navy after the company won in a technology demonstration program run by the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division's AIRWorks division. The Plano, Texas-based unmanned technology maker said Wednesday its V-BAT platform participated in the Mi2 Challenge, where both Martin UAV and L3Harris Technologies were the finalists for the merit-based competition.

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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has named the research teams that will work on a program that seeks to develop technologies that could help mitigate interference for wideband radio frequency systems. The selected teams that will work on the Wideband Adaptive RF Protection program are BAE Systems, Raytheon Technologies and its Collins Aerospace business, Northrop Grumman, Indiana Microelectronics, L3Harris Technologies, Columbia University and the University of Pennsylvania.

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Thomas Campbell, a former general manager for L3Harris Technologies, has been named president of Made In Space, a Redwire subsidiary focused on in-space manufacturing technology. Campbell will lead activities under a portfolio of in-space production technologies, and will succeed Andrew Rush, who will serve as Redwire's chief operating officer on a full-time basis, the company said Wednesday.

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Lockheed Martin, L3Harris Technologies and General Dynamics are getting ready to offer satellite and radio platforms designed to support communications on-the-move for military customers, National Defense Magazine reported Friday.

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Kay Maloney, former general manager of space control at Harris Corp. (now L3Harris Technologies), has been named vice president and general manager of Eastern region and North American operations of Cubic’s transportation systems business.

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Israel-based Elbit Systems has agreed to acquire the night vision business of Harris, which now operates as L3Harris Technologies, for $350M and CEO Bezhalel Machlis said he expects to close the transaction in the early fourth quarter of 2019, Reuters reported Thursday.

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Executive Mosaic is proud to induct Sam Maness, managing director of the Defense and Government Services group at Raymond James, into the 2024 Wash100 class. In October, Maness helped launch the 2023 Raymond James Defense and Government Conference, which highlighted the increasing role of private equity in the government contracting sector.

Vote for Maness as your favorite GovCon leader as part of the 2024 Wash100 popular vote competition! Voting closes on April 30, so visit Wash100.com to cast your ten votes today.

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Jonathan Dalrymple, CEO of Chugach Alaska Corp., has been appointed by the board of directors to serve as interim president of the company’s federal government contracting division. The appointment at Chugach Government Solutions comes after the departure of President Scott Davis, who had been with Chugach for over two decades, CGS said Monday.

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Frontier Technology Inc. has appointed technical and industry leader Lincoln Hudson as chief operations officer in a series of leadership appointments aimed at strengthening its technology and service offerings across the Navy, space and cybersecurity areas in support of customers within the Department of Defense and intelligence community. Hudson, who joined FTI in 2023, brings to the role over 25 years of experience providing support for DOD, the company said Wednesday.

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