L3Harris Technologies company Aerojet Rocketdyne has signed a 10-year public-private partnership agreement with the Naval Surface Warfare Center Indian Head Division to increase solid rocket motor production for national defense applications. "Working in coordination with our government partners, we’re increasing our production capability to meet today’s growing demand and to prepare for any surge in support of near peer conflicts," Ross Niebergall, president of Aerojet Rocketdyne, said in a statement published Monday.

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Bombardier Defense secured a U.S. Army contract in December to provide a Global 6500 aircraft in support of prototyping efforts under the service branch's High Accuracy Detection and Exploitation System program. The firm-fixed-price contract awarded by Army Contracting Command includes options for two additional aircraft over a period of three years, the service said Wednesday.

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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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Executive Mosaic has announced its entrance into stock market reporting with a brand new venture: GovCon Index. This state-of-the-art tracker is the flagship compiler of GovCon stock market information.

Carefully sourced and monitored in real time, GovCon Index is an aggregate index concentrating on 30 high-performing publicly traded companies in the GovCon sector.

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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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NASA and Aerojet Rocketdyne have wrapped up 25 years of rocket engine testing collaboration that supported 44 national space launches. The engine builder’s hydrogen-fueled RS-68 technology helped government customers launch key missions, such as the U.S. Air Force-led Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle Program, while working with NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi, the agency said […] More

NASA and Aerojet Rocketdyne have wrapped up 25 years of rocket engine testing collaboration that supported 44 national space launches. The engine builder's hydrogen-fueled RS-68 technology helped government customers launch key missions, such as the U.S. Air Force-led Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle Program, while working with NASA's Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. More

Science Applications International Corp. will modify and sustain a ground-based radar sensor system under a contract with the U.S. Space Force, the company announced in a LinkedIn post. SAIC and L3Harris Technologies will work together to determine innovation opportunities to help the service branch perform missions in space awareness and missile warning. “SAIC’s continued work […] More

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

John Macdonald, former senior executive for business development and strategy at CACI International, was named chief growth officer at aviation and aerospace component manufacturer Assured Space Access Inc. He shared his appointment via LinkedIn post, where he also highlighted Assured Space’s radio frequency satellite communication and space domain awareness offerings for civil, defense and commercial […] More

Mike Greene, a defense industry veteran with over three decades of experience, was tapped by Antenna Research Associates to serve as general manager of Product & Innovation Center, a new organization formed by combining ARA’s businesses in Billerica, Massachusetts, and Nashua, New Hampshire. ARA said Tuesday Greene will be responsible for both locations’ personnel, operations, […] More

Anduril Industries and industry partners will support American Rheinmetall Vehicles in the next phases of a competition to design and manufacture a next-generation combat vehicle for the U.S. Army.  The team will advance its digitally engineered and open-architecture design concept for the XM30 Mechanized Infantry Combat Vehicle, formerly known as the Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle, […] More