Jane Edwards

The U.S. Air Force has partnered with Rolls-Royce to unveil a 14,500-square-foot facility at Oklahoma City Air Logistics Complex on Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma designed to accommodate repair, maintenance and overhaul work on the F-137 engine. F-137 is an 8,000-pound Rolls-Royce-made turbofan engine that works to power the Northrop Grumman-built RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicle, […] More

William Lynn, chairman and CEO of DRS Technologies, has said partnerships with Israel-based firms have helped DRS facilitate the integration and deployment of Israel-made technology platforms in the U.S. market in support of the U.S. military. Lynn told Defense News bureau chief Barbara Opall-Rome in an interview published Monday that DRS has secured a potential $400 million […] More

Israel plans to buy an additional 17 Lockheed Martin-built F-35 aircraft for an undisclosed sum under a third order that brings the country’s procurement commitment with the U.S. government to 50 fighter jets, Defense News reported Sunday. Barbara Opall-Rome writes Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his cabinet approved on Sunday the F-35 acquisition package, which industry and […] More

The tenth littoral combat ship that Austal built for the U.S. Navy has completed acceptance trials in the Gulf of Mexico. Austal said Thursday the service branch concluded on Nov. 18 the acceptance trials on the USS Gabrielle Giffords (LCS 10) vessel that include tests on the ship’s systems and related equipment. The completion of the […] More

Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory has developed a CubeSat designed to collect the Earth’s radiation imbalance measurements for use in climate change predictions. Johns Hopkins APL’s Radiometer Assessment using Vertically Aligned Nanotubes CubeSat is one of the seven small-satellite payloads that took off on Nov. 11 aboard the United Launch Alliance-made Atlas V rocket, APL […] More