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Raytheon has opened a new facility in Portsmouth, R.I. that will house collaborative work on radar equipment for the U.S. Navy, WPRI-TV reported Monday. Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., said during the ribbon-cutting ceremony that the new space will enable companies to work together, as well as with foreign partners and the Naval Warfare Center. He […] More
A joint venture of Sparton and Ultra Electronics Holdings has received $64.6M in subcontracts to develop sonobuoys for the U.S. Navy. ERAPSCO will conduct the work in Columbia, Ind. and DeLeon Springs, Fla. through April 2020, Sparton said Monday. The JV will provide subcontracts worth $30.3M to Ultra Electronics and $34.3M to Sparton. “This contract underscores the increased focus […] More
Lockheed Martin has delivered the first GPS III satellite for the U.S. Air Force to Cape Canaveral in Florida to prepare for launch possibly in December. The company said Monday it shipped GPS III Space Vehicle 01 from Buckley Air Force Base in Colorado using a C-17 aircraft. The satellite is designed with three times […] More
Maj. Gen. John Morrison, commander of the U.S. Army Cyber Center of Excellence, has announced that the U.S. Army will launch a drone-mounted electronic warfare technology in 2019, C4ISRNET reported Tuesday. The service has started developing prototypes of the Multi-Function Electronic Warfare Air capability for installation on General Atomics-built MQ-1C Gray Eagle unmanned aircraft system. MFEW includes […] More
The Strategic Capabilities Office and Naval Air Warfare Center Point Mugu have performed two free flight demonstrations of the new variant of a Raytheon-made aerial decoy. The Defense Department said Thursday the Miniature Air Launched Decoy-X platform integrates features from the MALD-Jammer system, as well as helps the U.S. Navy integrate advanced electronic warfare payloads […] More
Science Applications International Corp. has landed a spot on a potential $980M contract to provide support services to the U.S. Navy’s Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division. SAIC said Thursday it will compete with 21 other contractors for task orders to design, develop, analyze, integrate, modify and deliver training platforms through the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. Jim […] More
Lockheed Martin and Fincantieri Marinette Marine have delivered two Freedom-class littoral combat ships to the U.S. Navy. The USS Sioux City and USS Wichita vessels will be based at Naval Station Mayport in Jacksonville, Fla., and commissioned in late 2018, Lockheed said Thursday. LCS 11 and 13 will join the other ships such as USS Milwaukee, […] More
AECOM has secured a position on a potential nine-year, $28B indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract from the Defense Department for technology research and development services. The company said Thursday it will vie for task orders worth over $15M under the unrestricted and open Pool 1 of the Defense Technical Information Center’s Information Analysis Center Multi-Award Contract. DoD awarded […] More
The National Security Agency has approved Viasat‘s handheld Link 16 radio technology for deployment to military customers from the “Five Eyes” alliance composed of U.S, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and U.K. ViaSat said Wednesday it designed the Battlefield Awareness and Targeting System-Dismounted device to help air and ground forces communicate with one another and increase their situational awareness. Ken Peterman, president of […] More
A team of Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory researchers has launched a three-year experiment that aims to determine the state of the thin layer of air near the surface of hypersonic vehicles. APL said Wednesday the Boundary Layer Transition effort seeks to help developers identify materials to produce hypersonic aircraft and missiles, as well […] More
Kratos Defense and Security Solutions has completed the second phase of a nearly three-year, four-phase study that aimed to migrate a military satellite communications ground system to the U.S. Air Force’s Enterprise Ground Services architecture. The company said Wednesday it offered its EPOCH telemetry and command server and TAO-DSI platform, among other things, to automate […] More
A Lockheed Martin-made spacecraft designed to study Mars’ deep interior has traveled halfway towards the red planet. NASA said Tuesday the Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodsey and Heat Transport or InSight spacecraft covered 172M miles since it was launched in May aboard United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. […] More
