Jane Edwards

Northrop Grumman has conducted a demonstration of a ground-based system to test its production of targeting data and detection and monitoring of an adversary’s unmanned aircraft system. The company demonstrated the Venom platform at the U.S. Army’s Maneuver-Fires Integrated Experiment held in Oklahoma, Northrop said Tuesday. The Venom system tracked small drones and provided two land-based […] More

Hera Systems has gained access to a source code related to two pending patents for the Cost Optimized Test of Spacecraft Avionics and Technologies spacecraft through a licensing agreement with NASA’s Ames Research Center. The company said Wednesday it will use the source code of COTSAT’s star tracker and spacecraft modular software in order to […] More

The Missile Defense Agency has awarded a.i. solutions a potential three-year, $73 million contract to provide engineering, consulting and mission assurance support services for the Ballistic Missile Defense System. The cost-plus-fixed-fee contract also covers risk management quality assurance process, system fielding, sustainment, ground and flight tests, configuration management, parts, and test anomaly and technical risk […] More

The State Department has approved Turkey’s request to buy Joint Direct Attack Munitions tail kits and related components from the U.S. under a potential $70 million foreign military sales agreement. Boeing will act as the principal contractor for the sale that covers JDAM GBU-31(V)1, GBU-31(V)3, GBU-38, GBU-54 JDAM laser kits, FMU-152A/B fuzes and BLU-109 hard target […] More