Jane Edwards

The Defense Contract Management Agency, on behalf of the U.S. Army, accepted the first GE Aerospace-built flight test engine for the Army’s Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft on Sept. 28. The second T901 engine is going through the acceptance process under the Army’s Improved Turbine Engine Program and the service is set to hand over the two engines to two vendors working on two FARA competitive prototypes – Raider X from Lockheed Martin's Sikorsky business and 360 Invictus from Textron's Bell subsidiary – by the end of October.

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SRI International will further develop its space object tracking technology under the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity’s Space Debris Identification and Tracking program. The nonprofit research organization is working on the Space Object Tracking and Evaluation via Radar Integration and Analysis project in collaboration with Leidos and SCOUT Space through IARPA's SINTRA program.

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Josh Jackson, senior vice president of the Army business unit within the defense and civilian sector at Science Applications International Corp., said rapid design to prototype, integration of emerging technologies and increased warfighter touchpoints are the three factors that drive the U.S. Army’s adoption of digital engineering to accelerate capability development and modernization.

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The F-35 program concluded a series of Joint Simulation Environment tests in September needed by the Department of Defense to decide whether to issue a Milestone C decision, which authorizes the Lockheed Martin-built fighter jet to move into the full-rate production phase.

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The Department of Defense has started seeking information on potential industry sources of a tools portal for commercial publicly available information research capabilities. Responses to the market research effort are due no later than Oct. 31.

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Steve Escaravage of Booz Allen Hamilton and Adam Hammer of Roadrunner Venture Studios said the Department of Defense should harness the power of capital markets and support dual-use technology companies to advance the development of emerging tech platforms to maintain its competitive edge amid the country’s strategic competition with China.

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