Naomi Cooper

Northrop Grumman is cleared to start producing the U.S. Space Force’s next-generation early warning missile system following the completion of the program’s preliminary design review. The phase validated the technical approach for integrating the Next Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared Polar payloads into Northrop’s Eagle-3 spacecraft, the company said Wednesday, the company said Wednesday. NGP includes […] More

The Ohio Aerospace Institute is inviting members of the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory’s Digital Research Innovation, Validation and Research Consortium to submit proposals for a planned risk reduction and integration pilot project. The proposed Manufacturing at Speed initiative aims to accelerate acquisition cycles for system modifications and new technology development by accelerating design to […] More

BWX Technologies is expecting to deliver a working version of a Department of Defense-funded mobile nuclear reactor to Idaho National Laboratory in the next two years, Bloomberg reported Monday. DOD awarded BWXT a $280 million contract in 2022 to design, build and demonstrate a transportable microreactor prototype that can be used to power remote military […] More

Cubic‘s mission and performance solutions division is demonstrating its portfolio of full-motion video and geospatial product offerings designed to provide actionable intelligence to warfighters. Among the featured tools at the 2023 Geospatial Intelligence Symposium are Unified Video+, a next-generation full-motion video data dissemination and analysis tool, and Anubis, a fully immersive FMV processing, exploitation and […] More

IBM is investing $100 million in a new initiative to develop a 100,000-qubit quantum-centric supercomputer intended to support research in areas including climate change and clean energy The University of Tokyo and the University of Chicago will work with IBM over the next decade to design and build the quantum systems’ components and underlying technologies, […] More

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has launched a program that aims to develop novel electrode materials that can be used for a magnetohydrodynamic propulsion system for military undersea platforms. The Principles of Undersea Magnetohydrodynamic Pumps program will run for three and a half years and will validate modeling and simulation tools, including electrochemistry, hydrodynamics […] More

Lockheed Martin has adopted GitLab‘s DevSecOps platform, which runs workloads on Amazon Web Services, to accelerate its 1LMX mission-driven business and digital transformation initiative. GitLab said Tuesday it has collaborated with AWS to help Lockheed automate and optimize its code deployment and enable rapid development and continuous deployment of software for mission-critical defense programs. AWS […] More