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HII demonstrated coordinated operations of manned and unmanned maritime vehicles as part of an internal research and development initiative meant to advance mission-critical technology platforms to support national security clients. The launch and recovery demonstration held on June 8 in the Pascagoula River in Mississippi involved the use of HII’s Pharos prototype platform and the […] More
Radar developer Echodyne has raised $135 million in a round of funding and will use the capital to ramp up radar production and distribution and broaden its product lines for defense, autonomous machine and security applications. Northrop Grumman, Madrona Ventures, NEA, Vanedge Capital and Vulcan Capital participated in the financing round co-led by investment management […] More
Michael Magrath, a 20-year security industry veteran, has joined Kuma as managing director of the company’s digital identity practice. He will bring to the role decades of experience as a technology leader in digital transformation, security systems and policy and help deliver digital identity platforms and services to government and private sector clients, Kuma said […] More
The U.S. Air Force and Northrop Grumman have equipped the Air National Guard’s F-16 fighter jets with fifth-generation radar capabilities through the installation of the AN/APG-83 Scalable Agile Beam Radar system. The Northrop-built APG-83 SABR active electronically scanned array radar provides greater bandwidth that could enable F-16 pilots to detect, identify and track targets at […] More
The U.S. Army has released a draft solicitation for a potential five-year, $610 million recompete contract to provide mission support services for the military branch’s Training Support Systems Enterprise. TSS-E is a system of systems that delivers interoperable, integrated and networked training support capabilities to active duty personnel, national guard and reserve soldiers, commands, units […] More
Northrop Grumman will continue to evaluate its stand-in attack weapon missile offering using digital engineering capabilities under a three-month contract with the U.S. Air Force. The company said Thursday its missile design for the SiAW program comes with open architecture to facilitate future upgrades and is expected to launch later in 2022. Northrop, Lockheed Martin […] More
Northrop Grumman has received a potential $2 billion contract from United Launch Alliance to ramp up production of Graphite Epoxy Motor and extended length variation solid rocket boosters for ULA’s Atlas and Vulcan Centaur launch vehicles. The multiyear contract with ULA will also allow Northrop to modernize and expand tooling and existing facilities, Northrop said […] More
The U.S. Air Force has awarded three-month contracts to Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin and L3Harris Technologies to support the initial phase of a program meant to build a stand-in attack weapon that could be used by the F-35 fighter aircraft to counter hostile air defenses, Defense News reported Wednesday. Lena Lopez, a spokeswoman for the […] More
A new Federal Trade Commission analysis has found that consumers said they lost more than $1 billion in cryptocurrency to fraud between January 2021 and March 2022. FTC said Friday bogus investment opportunities have accounted for $575 million of all reported fraud losses involving cryptocurrencies since 2021. After investment scams, romance scams represented $185 million […] More
Northrop Grumman will work with Aeronix to build a Space End Crypto Unit prototype that will link across common architecture weapons systems and other platforms in low-Earth orbit under a Department of Defense contract to support DOD’s goal of connecting the joint force. “Our open architecture space mesh networking prototype enables new capabilities in Space […] More
Inmarsat and Honeywell have introduced a new satellite communications service for government and business airborne users. SwiftJet is backed by Inmarsat’s ELERA satellite network and is set to become commercially available in the first half of 2023 to deliver inflight connectivity over L-band, Inmarsat said Monday. SwiftJet uses Honeywell-built hardware that can be installed on […] More
BAE Systems has moved to increase the level of GPS jamming protection for aircraft operating in contested environments by broadening the beamforming capabilities of its Digital GPS Anti-Jam Receiver. The company said Monday it enabled beamforming with Trimble receivers to expand its DIGAR system’s capabilities. BAE engineers in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, developed software to broaden […] More
