Northrop Grumman has started a project to expand its manufacturing facilities in Magna, Utah, as the company aims to increase its throughput for solid rocket boosters by more than three times. The multiphase construction project will add areas for producing rocket motor cases and mixing and casting propellants, the company said Wednesday. Falls Church, Virginia-based […] More

Blue Canyon Technologies, a Raytheon Technologies subsidiary, has set up a new CubeSat factory in Boulder, Colorado, where it plans to increase annual miniaturized satellite production to 85 units. The small satellite manufacturer will utilize the 31,000-square-foot facility to integrate and scale efforts to help customers establish expansive spacecraft constellations for their missions, Raytheon Intelligence & […] More

Lockheed Martin, Raytheon Technologies, L3Harris Technologies and other U.S. defense contractors are facing workforce challenges that mostly resulted from pandemic-driven layoff and furlough activities and are seeing supply chain problems compounded by staffing issues, The Wall Street Journal reported Saturday. The downturn in employment numbers in the defense industry persists amid expectations of higher demand […] More

The National Security Agency has granted certification to Mercury Systems for its data encryption platform designed to safeguard classified information from local or remote threats. The Jannson Data-At-Rest is designated as an NSA Type 1 product for cryptographically securing government data classified secret and below collected by avionics, unmanned sensors, communication, surveillance and wearable systems, […] More

Radar developer Echodyne has raised $135 million in a round of funding and will use the capital to ramp up radar production and distribution and broaden its product lines for defense, autonomous machine and security applications. Northrop Grumman, Madrona Ventures, NEA, Vanedge Capital and Vulcan Capital participated in the financing round co-led by investment management […] More

Northrop Grumman has received a potential $2 billion contract from United Launch Alliance to ramp up production of Graphite Epoxy Motor and extended length variation solid rocket boosters for ULA’s Atlas and Vulcan Centaur launch vehicles. The multiyear contract with ULA will also allow Northrop to modernize and expand tooling and existing facilities, Northrop said […] More

The Boeing-built CST-100 Starliner spacecraft returned to Earth Wednesday by landing at the U.S. Army’s White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, marking the completion of the vehicle’s unmanned Orbital Flight Test-2 mission to the International Space Station with NASA. “With the completion of OFT-2, we will incorporate lessons learned and continue working to prepare […] More

General Dynamics’ mission systems business will design, build and test an ethernet encryptor under a National Security Agency contract. The company said Tuesday it will deliver under the NSA contract its TACLANE E-Series Adaptable Security Platform that could help organizations protect classified cloud environments and data centers. TACLANE E-Series ASP is an Ethernet Data Encryption […] More

A new study by Next Pathway has found that at least 78 percent of information technology leaders report a rise in demand for migrating enterprise workloads to the cloud as companies seek to generate revenue streams through digital transformation efforts. Next Pathway surveyed approximately 1,200 IT decision-makers and professionals in February and found that only […] More

The U.S. Air Force has issued an $82 million ceiling increase on an existing multiple-award contract, through which 13 companies provide design and engineering support at Defense Logistics Agency sites. The award will boost the ordering capacity for the mentioned services at DLA-managed fuel locations, the Department of Defense said Monday. The government will assign […] More

Chris Brady, president of the mission systems unit at General Dynamics and a 2022 Wash100 winner, said in a recent Executive Spotlight interview that the business is working to expand its unmanned underwater vehicle autonomy technologies and gave an overview of its “Hammerhead” anti-submarine mine system prototype project with the U.S. Navy. “As we look […] More

Arqit will aim to present defense use cases for the company’s quantum encryption technology under a cooperative research and development agreement signed with the Air Force Research Laboratory. The London-based data protection company said Friday it will update the QuantumCloud platform for a demonstration effort aimed at testing system performance, interoperability and endpoint security application […] More