Curtiss-Wright has won contracts totaling over $250 million to assist the U.S. Navy with ship construction, spare parts and submarine back-fit procurements for the Virginia-class nuclear-powered attack submarine, Columbia-class submarine and Ford-class aircraft carrier projects. The contracts were issued by Bechtel Plant Machinery, Inc. and General Dynamics Electric Boat, and under these awards, Curtiss-Wright will deliver propulsion […] More

Textron‘s systems business has received a five-year, $12 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to repair a testing platform for military combat aircraft systems. The Defense Department said Friday Textron Systems will provide a capability to assess the end-to-end functional status of the internal parts of the Joint Service Electronic Combat System Tester. JSECST is […] More

Broadleaf, an information technology services provider recently acquired by ASRC Federal, has secured a contract from the General Services Administration’s Federal Acquisition Service to provide an Air Combat Command directorate with analytical support and products. Under the $56.6 million contract, ASRC Federal will handle concept development, planning and programming, weapon system management, wargaming and total […] More

Ensco will exhibit its products and services for human machine interface as well as airworthiness safety and security at the U.S. Army’s Aviation Mission Solutions Summit. The engineering company said Wednesday that it will feature the IData HMI toolkit, IDataMap 2D and 3D digital mapping platform and IGL software graphics renderer. Ensco’s certification services are […] More

The venture capital arm of Lockheed Martin has invested in technology company H3X Technologies to help the latter augment its Colorado headquarters facility as well as accelerate the development of its integrated motor drives. H3X has now raised a total of $9 million with the latest funding from Lockheed Martin Ventures, the Denver-based aircraft motor manufacturer said Tuesday. […] More

New York-based companies Saab and Hidden Level will continue providing their sensor and security technologies to the Federal Aviation Administration in support of the agency’s Airport Unmanned Aircraft Systems Detection and Mitigation Research Program. The research effort, which was launched in 2020 with the aim of testing technologies and systems capable of detecting UAS-related risks, is expected to continue […] More

The Air Force Research Laboratory granted funding to Northrop Grumman to support expanded production of hypersonic weapons at its facility in Elkton, Maryland. The company said Tuesday AFRL’s Manufacturing and Industrial Technology Division awarded Northrop $8.8 million to make the enhancements to its manufacturing technology, which involves both traditional and novel techniques combined with digital […] More

The U.S. Air Force has tapped Raytheon Intelligence & Space to develop a Common Tactical Edge Network to support the service branch’s advanced battle management system.  The Raytheon Technologies unit said Monday it is tasked to exhibit a framework capable of aerial network interoperability based on advanced networking products it has developed.  RI&S and eight […] More

The U.S Air Force has tapped medical device manufacturing company SimX to work under a research and development contract and support a medical simulation training program focused on tactical combat casualty care. SimX said Tuesday the program will adapt its existing virtual reality medical simulation system and modernize it with capacities for medical and clinical […] More

SOSi announced on Tuesday that the industry leader in transformational technology solutions for the Department of Defense has received two new task orders worth $31.3 million through the $385 million Mission Partner Environment Network Engineering Services or MPE-ES contract provided by the U.S. Air Force and the Defense Information Systems Agency. “We’re proud to apply […] More

General Electric and the U.S. Air Force have jointly tested a next-generation fighter jet engine for the F-35 aircraft at the service branch’s Arnold Engineering Development Complex in Tennessee. The company said the second phase of testing on the XA100 three-stream adaptive cycle engine was concluded in August in preparation for its maturation and full-scale […] More

A U.S. Army cross-functional team has flight tested an Airbus-built unmanned air system to determine its alignment with the service branch’s goal of employing ultra-long endurance stratospheric UAS capabilities. The Assured Positioning, Navigation and Timing/Space CFT was able to demonstrate the Zephyr drone‘s ability to carry commercial, off-the-shelf payload while flying at a high altitude […] More