Government Technology

Orbital ATK has performed and completed the demonstration of a new missile warhead being developed for use at hyper velocities. The company said Thursday it used real world data as the basis to model the design of a hypersonic missile weapon built for high temperature resistance. Additive manufacturing or 3D printing was used in producing components […] More

Five Iridium NEXT satellites that are scheduled for launch on May 19 have arrived at SpaceX’s launch site in Vandenberg Air Force Base in California to go through pre-launch processing procedures. Iridium Communications said Wednesday each satellite will be mated in the dispenser, fueled, stacked on the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket’s payload adapter and encapsulated […] More

The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory has licensed Pratt & Whitney and parent company United Technologies to use and implement a modeling and simulation software. The FEMORPH platform was built to work with a design application in simulating the performance of aircraft engine parts before production, Wright-Patterson AF Base said Wednesday The system was also designed to form manufacturing deviation […] More

Lockheed Martin will equip its F-16 aircraft with modern technologies similar to those fitted on F-35 planes as part of the firm’s bid for the $15 billion fighter jet order of the Indian Air Force, Bloomberg reported Wednesday. The Md.-based company has also offered to move its F-16 production line to India to compete with […] More

NASA aims to launch a Lockheed Martin-built spacecraft next month on a mission to study the interior and seismic activity of Mars. InSight is scheduled to lift off May 5 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California aboard an Atlas V 401 rocket and built to explore the red planet’s crust, mantle and core, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory said […] More

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has selected Charles River Analytics to conduct tool studies on gray-zone analysis methods under a two-year, $1 million contract. The company said Monday it is developing a new tool suite to support the Defense Department‘s efforts to analyze strategies aiming to address the gray-zone. The gray-zone is an area of conflict between peace […] More

General Atomics‘ electromagnetic systems business has concluded pre-flight and full system tests of a satellite built to host multiple technology payloads for on-orbit demonstration. The company said Monday its Orbital Test Bed will launch onboard the SpaceX-built Falcon Heavy rocket as part of the U.S. Air Force‘s Space Technology Program. OTB will carry a deep-space atomic clock that was produced […] More

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has unveiled a prize competition that aims to shorten the timeline of payload launch operations. The DARPA Launch Challenge will require multiple teams to deploy two different payloads from two different launch sites that will be announced only days before the scheduled space flight missions, DARPA said Wednesday. Participants will compete for the […] More

Raytheon has expressed interest to help the Defense Department meet its weather monitoring needs with its sensor system, SpaceNews reported Monday. Wallis Laughrey, vice president of Raytheon’s space systems segment, told the publication at the Space Symposium that the company is in talks with the U.S. Air Force and DoD about the capability of its […] More

Technica has secured a position on a potential $250 million basic ordering agreement to support the U.S. Army‘s cloud migration and modernization efforts. The company said Tuesday it aims to help the service branch transition information technology systems and applications to an authorized commercial cloud hosting technology or enterprise hosting facility through the Army Cloud Computing Enterprise Transformation contract. […] More