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Northrop Grumman CEO Wes Bush has said the company is in the engineering, manufacturing development stage for the Air National Guard’s program to upgrade the active electronically scanned array radar aboard the Lockheed Martin-built F-16 Fighter Falcon aircraft, the National Interest reported Wednesday. Bush told investors Wednesday the company will update 72 AESA radars on the service […] More

Lockheed Martin conducted an initial flight test of a surface-launch variant of its Long Range Anti-Ship Missile Wednesday at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. The company said Thursday it used a topside canister with an angled launch platform to deploy the surface-launched LRASM and simulate a ship-launched environment. LRASM, booster adapter and the Mk-114 booster […] More

Lockheed Martin has handed over the first mobile rocket launcher system to the Defense Department under a foreign military sales contract awarded in December 2015. The company produced the launcher and chassis components for the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System at its Camden, Arkansas-based facility, Lockheed said Wednesday. The U.S. Army tapped Lockheed to build 12 […] More

D-Wave Systems has agreed to provide the Energy Department’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory cloud access to its D-Wave 2000Q quantum computing system in an effort to advance development of hybrid computing applications. D-Wave will collaborate with Tennessee-based ORNL to leverage the quantum computer to help address DOE’s environmental, energy, nuclear and other scientific challenges through […] More

BAE Systems has developed a Bluetooth-based sensor system designed to determine the stress and strain on military bridging platforms. The wireless system uses a set of sensors attached to bridge components to record strain readings for computer analysis and transmit data to warfighters in order to determine bridge parts that need to be replaced or […] More

Tom Sharpe, former commissioner of the General Services Administration’s Federal Acquisition Service, has established a consulting firm with Kevin Youel Page, former FAS deputy commissioner, FCW reported Tuesday. Sharpe and Page told FCW in an interview that they have registered on the agency’s System for Award Management, established financial operations and held meetings with company executives […] More

Harris has awarded several contracts to a Sypris Solutions subsidiary to build electronic assemblies in support of U.S. military programs and space initiatives. Sypris Electronics will produce and deliver electronic assemblies for two satellite programs designed for use in weather forecasting operations, Sypris said Monday. The first satellite program will work to monitor early storm […] More