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Blue Origin has launched a mockup of its Blue Moon 1 lunar lander at its Huntsville, Alabama-based facility for use in testing technologies meant for a manned version of the vehicle for NASA’s Artemis 5 mission.

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A joint venture between RTX's Raytheon business and Israel-based Rafael Advanced Defense Systems will make a $33 million investment to establish a facility in East Camden, Arkansas, to manufacture the Tamir missile for the Iron Dome weapon system and the U.S. version of the missile, dubbed SkyHunter. The Raytheon-Rafael Area Protection Systems JV will break ground on the manufacturing facility before the end of 2023 and plans to kick off missile production in 2025, RTX said Thursday.

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The U.S. Air Force is seeking information on potential vendors that could provide cloud computing engineering services for the Kessel Run's All Domain Common Platform program and security operations of the KR Office of the Chief Technology Officer. Responses are due Nov. 2, according to a request for information published Wednesday.

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Rocket Lab USA will resume launches of its Electron vehicle after it secured authorization from the Federal Aviation Administration. The company said Wednesday it initiated an investigation after encountering an in-flight anomaly during the 41st launch mission of its Electron rocket on Sept. 19.

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Don Parente, vice president of public sector sales and solution architecture at MetTel, said the looming retirement of copper telephone lines calls for government agencies to take a proactive approach by conducting an assessment and audit of plain old telephone services and related systems and exploring the shift to a digital communications network. “An audit identifies all communication needs, both internal and external, to determine which services are critical and cannot be disrupted during a transition,” Parente wrote in an article published Tuesday in Nextgov/FCW.

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