Virgin Orbit will buy two Boeing 747-400 airframes under an agreement with L3Harris Technologies to meet the increasing demand for satellite launches among U.S. national security customers and its allies. Melbourne, Florida-based L3Harris said Tuesday it will modify and deliver one of the aircraft in 2023 to serve as the second airborne launcher for Virgin […] More

BAE Systems has released new electronic warfare building blocks developed for the Department of Defense to allow for customizable EW missions with a range of airborne combat systems. The company said Wednesday its Storm EW Modules employ a scalable design and common-core architecture to boost the survivability, situational awareness and electromagnetic capabilities of U.S. forces […] More

BAE Systems‘ U.S. business arm has won a competition to help the U.S. Air Force’s Electronic Warfare and Avionics Program Office update 2,500 radios across multiple military transport, bomber and communications aircraft. The company will develop and produce a new high-frequency radio for Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps aircraft under the Rapid Prototyping and […] More

A collaborative partnership between Honeywell, Hughes Network Systems and SES has completed a demonstration of multinetwork, multi-orbit high-speed airborne connectivity for military use. The demonstration utilized Honeywell’s JetWave MCX terminal, which is compatible with various military Ka-band networks, Hughes’ software-defined HM-series modem and SES’ medium earth orbit high-throughput, low-latency network as well as its multiple geostationary satellites, including GovSat-1, […] More

BAE Systems has cross-decked its airborne tactical electromagnetic attack weapon system with the U.S. Air Force’s new EC-37B Baseline 4 electronic warfare aircraft in line with the company’s collaboration with the service branch. The Compass Call EW system will feature an upgraded capability to integrate with third-party applications in an effort to help the aircraft […] More

Jennifer Walsmith, vice president of cyber and information solutions business unit at Northrop Grumman, said the Multi-Domain Sensor System is critical to the U.S. Army’s future airborne signals intelligence payload program, Breaking Defense reported Wednesday. “[The service’s aerial SIGINT payload initiative] will ultimately be integrated into the overall new Army suite of platforms,” she said. […] More

General Atomics‘ aeronautical systems business is applying a modular open-systems approach to an unmanned aircraft system for multi-domain operations in support of the U.S. Army. The company said Thursday its Gray Eagle Extended Range UAS will undergo a system-wide MOSA implementation that will also cover command and control software. The MOSA implementation on GE-ER Increment […] More

Jim Faist, vice president and chief technology and strategy officer for Lucent Government Solutions Labs at CACI International, has returned to Trident Systems as a member of its board of directors. John Broglio, president of Trident, said in a statement published Tuesday Faist has experience in technical engineering, knowledge about electronic communications and space operations […] More

L3Harris Technologies has teamed up with five other companies to compete for a project to develop a new airborne warning and control system for NATO. L3Harris said Monday it plans to bid for the Alliance Future Surveillance and Control program in partnership with CAE, General Dynamics, Jacobs, Viasat and Hensoldt. The industry team intends to […] More

Mercury Systems has rolled out new data recorder, storage and transfer systems designed to facilitate secure data exchange for both rotary- and fixed-wing aircraft conducting intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance operations. The new releases are the High Definition Video Recorder family, the Advanced Data Transfer Systems and the Data Storage Systems that all feature open architectures […] More

Chris Brady, president of General Dynamics Mission Systems and a two-time Wash100 Award recipient, recently spoke with ExecutiveBiz for its latest Executive Spotlight interview detailing the current set of unique challenges and opportunities in the government contracting (GovCon) sector and federal landscape. During the interview with ExecutiveBiz, Brady discussed his growth strategy for GDMS, new […] More

KBR has received a pair of task orders worth $120.2 million combined to help the U.S. Navy develop aircrew training courseware and analyze aircraft survivability equipment. Both task orders were recompeted under the Department of Defense Information Analysis Center’s Multiple Award Contract to support Navy program offices overseeing E-2/C-2 airborne command and control and advanced […] More