The Missile Defense Agency has worked with U.S. Pacific Command and the U.S. Navy to conduct four tests on the interception functions of the Lockheed Martin-developed Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense system and Raytheon missiles. MDA said Monday the Multi-Mission Warfare flight test events featured the Aegis Baseline 9.C1 weapon system configuration and the Standard Missile-6 Dual I and Standard Missile-2 Block […] More

Inmarsat and the European Space Agency have secured $8.4 million in new funds for a new air traffic management infrastructure after completing a design review. ESA and its partners will use the funds for the second phase of the Iris Precursor program meant to supplement current VHF networks with a new satellite network, Inmarsat said Tuesday. […] More

Xerox has received a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services certification in New Hampshire for a platform the company built to process Medicaid applications. The company said Tuesday its Xerox Health Enterprise system received the certification after the roduct passed the Medicaid Enterprise Certification Toolkit’s federal requirements. New Hampshire Medicaid has used the platform since March 2013 to manage enrollment of members, […] More

Ball Aerospace & Technologies has tested the power system of an environmental monitoring satellite that the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA plan to launch in 2017. Cary Ludtke, vice president and general manager of Ball Aerospace’s operational space business said Tuesday the company powered on the Joint Polar Satellite System to gain […] More

The Danish Business Authority has given approval to Sikorsky Aircraft, Lockheed Martin, CAE and General Electric to begin the initial phase of projects with Danish companies to provide MH-60R Seahawk helicopters for Denmark’s defense ministry. Sikorsky Aircraft said Monday the four U.S.-based contractors will deliver nine Seahawk helicopers to the U.S. Navy as part of a foreign military sales […] More

General Atomics’ aeronautical systems company has completed the flight test for a sense-and-avoid radar aboard a remotely piloted aircraft in an effort to further the aircraft’s integration into international and domestic airspace. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. flight-tested a due regard radar on Predator B and the radar system performed collision avoidance maneuvers onboard the […] More

Lockheed Martin and Raytheon have jointly tested the command and control features of the U.S. Air Force‘s GPS III satellite during a fourth launch readiness exercise. The companies demonstrated automatic data transfer between the Lockheed-built satellite and a Raytheon-made operational control system, Raytheon said Wednesday. The evaluation also sought to demonstrate the infrastructure’s maneuver planning, […] More

Aerojet Rocketdyne has concluded a series of tests on a three-dimensional printed propulsion system to check engine throughput and propellant tank expulsions as the program moved forward to the qualification phase. The company said Monday it conducted a hot-fire test of the hydrazine integrated propulsion system on the MPS-120 CubeSat High-Impulse Adaptable Modular Propulsion System to demonstrate functions that meet Technology Readiness Level 6 and Manufacturing […] More

NASA took the first step Friday in what it hopes to be a new era for human space exploration as the agency sent the Orion capsule into a nearly four-hour orbit to evaluate its potential for future missions via Boeing‘s Space Launch System. Engineers for NASA and Orion constructor Lockheed Martin focused much of their attention […] More

Ball Aerospace & Technologies has supplied four phased array antennas and three cameras for the Lockheed Martin-built Orion spacecraft. Orion’s antenna system is comprised of more than 5,000 components and designed to transmit data and voice communications from the capsule’s liftoff until its splashdown, Ball Aerospace said Friday. The company based its Orion flight test […] More

Joe Donohue oversees the management and oversight of financial operations at Agilex Technologies as chief financial officer. Donohue’s financial leadership career includes stints at both Marriott and Legent, followed by a role at Integec. In this conversation with ExecutiveBiz, Donohue offers a five-year forecast of the GovCon sector and describes how many services contractors could reshape their portfolios. He […] More

Boeing has concluded the development and testing phase of a commercial crew transportation system the company built for NASA. The testing represents the final milestone for the the CST-100 spacecraft and Atlas V rocket under Boeing’s four-year agreement with NASA, the space agency said Friday. NASA intends for the spacecraft to transport crew members to the International Space Station […] More