Ramona Adams

The U.S. Air Force has amended its solicitation for the Three-Dimensional Expeditionary Long-Range Radar program to include options for full-rate production following a series of protests and legal action. The service branch said Monday the 3DELRR contract is now comprised of engineering and manufacturing development, low-rate initial production, interim contractor support and full rate production phases. Lockheed Martin, Northrop […] More

Sierra Nevada Corp. has completed updates and initial hardware tests on the Dream Chaser flight test vehicle as part of the company’s Commercial Resupply Services 2 contract with NASA. The company said Thursday it will ship the test vehicle to NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center to undergo a second phase of flight tests that will involve tow-tests, pre-flight ground evaluations and free-flight tests in coordination […] More

United Launch Alliance has launched a national security payload into space Thursday as part of the National Reconnaissance Office‘s NROL-61 mission. The Boeing and Lockheed Martin joint venture said Thursday it launched the NROL-61 payload aboard the company-built Atlas V Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The Atlas V EELV 421 configuration was built to […] More

Saab has received a $5.4 million order from the Defense Department to supply a company-built man-portable weapon system to U.S. military agencies. The defense and security company said Thursday the order for Saab’s Carl-Gustaf was issued under a previously awarded DoD contract for 84-millimeter recoilless rifle systems. Michael Andersson, president and CEO of Saab’s North American business, said Carl-Gustaf features […] More

Lockheed Martin has installed a company-built vehicle optical sensor system on the U.S. Navy‘s USNS Grapple rescue and salvage ship to support NATO‘s patrol operations in the Aegean Sea. The company and the military branch chose a first-generation Gyrocam VOSS from the U.S. government’s inventory and completed system installation over a two-week period, Lockheed said Wednesday. “To support NATO’s security mission quickly, the U.S. Navy needed […] More

Jim Reuter, deputy associate administrator for programs at NASA’s space technology mission directorate, has said SpaceX proposed to invest 10 times the funds NASA plans to allocate for an uncrewed Mars landing mission, Space News reported Thursday. Jeff Foust writes Reuter said at a NASA Advisory Council meeting in Cleveland that the agency could spend $32 million on […] More