Jane Edwards

Inmarsat’s government business arm concluded cross-country demonstrations of its L-band Tactical Radio service for U.S. government customers at its headquarters in Reston, Virginia, and in two other locations in Colorado and North Carolina. Inmarsat Government said Tuesday it worked with L3Harris Technologies, Collins Aerospace, Thales Defense and Security and Spectra Group to demonstrate the interoperability […] More

A Northrop Grumman-led industry team has secured the National Aeronautic Association’s Robert J. Collier Trophy in recognition of its work on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. The company said Thursday it partnered with L3Harris Technologies, Ball Aerospace, Raytheon Technologies and NeXolve on the space deployable telescope, which launched in December 2021. Northrop led the design, […] More

Juvare has launched a new business unit to advance the delivery of national security and crisis response software offerings to U.S. government customers. President Patrick Lane and Chief Operating Officer Patrick Macfarlane will oversee Juvare Federal & Defense, which will accelerate program delivery through its independent operating framework, the company said Wednesday. JFD offers a […] More

Ramaco Carbon and the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory are partnering on a two-year project to develop a process to facilitate large-scale production of coal-derived graphite, a key component used in manufacturing batteries for electric vehicles. ORNL and Ramaco are jointly funding the project through a field work proposal for the Fossil Energy […] More

Lockheed Martin used the Department of Defense’s 5G network to demonstrate the capability of its analytics tools to improve aircraft readiness by providing maintainers with real-time data to detect aircraft issues and speed up the decision-making process. Lockheed developed and demonstrated its applications before U.S. Air Force and U.S. Army officials as part of the […] More

Northrop Grumman will work with Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works arm, Raytheon Technologies’ intelligence and space business, Long Wave and Crescent Systems as part of a team that will compete for a U.S. Navy program that seeks to replace the service’s fleet of E-6B Mercury aircraft. Henry Cyr, director of multidomain command and control capture programs […] More

The first 10 satellites for the Tranche 0 Transport and Tracking Layer of the Space Development Agency’s Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture launched Sunday aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The second batch of satellites for the Tranche 0 layer, which will demonstrate low-latency military communications to enable warfighters to […] More

Boeing subsidiary Insitu achieved a record duration flight of 25.5 hours with its 150-pound unmanned aircraft system on a multipayload mission. Insitu said Thursday the Integrator UAS enabled the customer to keep persistent eyes on a target without deploying two or more lower endurance platforms. “Customers can focus on the mission and have confidence to […] More

Tony Frazier, executive vice president and general manager of public sector Earth intelligence at Maxar Technologies, said the company is in talks with the U.S. Space Force and other agencies within the Department of Defense on how to use satellite images of objects in orbit to detect malicious activity and other threats in space, SpaceNews […] More