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Systems Planning and Analysis has received a Capability Maturity Model Integration level 3 rating from the CMMI Institute for the company’s approach to personnel augmentation services and research and development software. The CMMI maturity level 3 was granted after an independent appraiser evaluated SPA’s more than 20 process areas across program management and technical competencies in […] More

Boeing aims to accelerate its production of the 11th and 12th Wideband Global Satcom satellites as the U.S. military plans to enhance its space assets, SpaceNews reported Wednesday. The Chicago-based aerospace company will conduct the effort using the $600 million fund that Congress added into the Pentagon’s 2018 budget. Rico Attanasio, director of Department of […] More

ICF has been included in Forbes‘ annual list of top companies by industry as determined through client and peer feedback. Forbes has counted ICF among the publication’s list of “America’s Best Management Consulting Firms,” the company said Wednesday. The publication collaborated with Statista to compile the list that includes over 200 companies. Management consulting firms were […] More

A joint venture of Lockheed Martin and Tata Advanced Systems has opened the first metal-to-metal bonding facility at Adibatla, Hyderabad in India. Tata Lockheed Martin Aerostructures inaugurated the 4,700 square-meter facility that will support the complex aerostructures manufacturing requirements of Tata Advanced Systems and the Make in India initiative of the country, Lockheed said Wednesday. […] More

Some industry executives said they believe the U.S. Air Force has initiated measures to expedite the process of awarding space-related contracts in an effort to immediately address gaps, Defense One reported Tuesday. “What I’ve seen in the last year is it’s moved from rhetoric to reality and it’s really impacting this industry,” Bill Gattle, president of […] More

A Kratos Defense & Security Solutions subsidiary will support Dynetics in efforts to further develop a system to facilitate the aerial launch and recovery of multiple unmanned air vehicles under the third phase of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Gremlins program. Kratos Unmanned Aerial Systems will fabricate, assemble and integrate aerial drones as part […] More

A satellite that Orbital ATK built for NASA’s Astrophysics Explorer mission lifted off Wednesday aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite is designed to identify planets nearby host stars to facilitate characterizations of those planets and their atmospheres through the use of four wide-field cameras, […] More

Lt. Gen. Arnold Bunch, military deputy in the office of the assistant U.S. Air Force secretary for acquisition, has said Northrop Grumman has made progress toward developing the service branch’s next bomber aircraft, the Los Angeles Times reported Wednesday. Bunch told a Senate Armed Services subcommittee at a hearing Wednesday the B-21 Long Range Strike Bomber program […] More

Raytheon and the U.S. Navy have finished developmental testing of the Joint Standoff Weapon C warhead for use on the F-35 aircraft’s C variant. The company said Tuesday the 1,000-pound JSOW makes use of a global positioning system-based inertial navigation platform equipped with an infrared seeker made to autonomously detect targets. The air-to-ground weapon system was designed to […] More

The Australian government has selected Lockheed Martin to provide a technology platform designed to help users gain situational awareness of space events. Lockheed said Tuesday it will deploy the iSpace Mission System at the Australian Space Operations Center to collect data from government, commercial and science community sensors. The system works to integrate surveillance data and offers a comprehensive space picture […] More

NASA plans to launch a flight campaign in Galveston, Texas, to explore approaches for the agency to gather community response data as part of its Commercial Supersonic Technology Project. The agency said Thursday it will kick off a series of research flights in November from the Ellington airport and use an F/A-18 aircraft to test supersonic dive […] More

Lockheed Martin’s Sikorsky subsidiary has introduced an industrialization plan that seeks to advance partnership with the German aerospace and defense industry in support of its effort to compete for the European country’s heavy lift helicopter program. Sikorsky and Rheinmetall Group agreed to team up in February to offer the former’s CH-53K King Stallion helicopter for the German air force’s […] More