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Report: Lockheed names 3 industry partners for Navyâ€™s MQ-25 tanker drone program

Lockheed Martin has announced three industry partners for its proposed offering for theÂ U.S. Navyâ€™sÂ MQ-25 carrier-based aerial tanker drone program,Â Defense News reported Monday. Lockheed officials announced Monday that General Electric and United Technologies Corp. will respectively supply the F404 turbofan engine and the F-35C landing gear, while Triumph Aerostructures will produce the droneâ€™s internal structure. Lockheedâ€™sÂ Skunk […] More

by Jane Edwards April 10, 2018, 4:56 am
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USAF seeks potential operations, maintenance support sources for space surveillance tech

The U.S. Air Force has begun its search for potential sources that could provide operations and maintenance support for the serviceâ€™s Ground-Based Electro-Optical Deep Space Surveillance System. A FedBizOpps notice posted Thursday says GEODSS works to detect, identify and monitor all space objects within the coverage area and deliver metric data to joint space operations […] More

by Jane Edwards April 9, 2018, 10:57 am
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Boeing Expands Alabama Facility, Announces Job Openings for PAC-3 Production

Boeing has expanded its facility in Huntsville, Alabama as part of an effort to extend its missile defense system program. Alabama Local News said Saturday Boeing will hire 70 new workers, as well as accelerate the production of the Patriot Advanced Capability-3 missile at the expanded space. â€œTodayâ€™s celebration of this expansion is focused on […] More

by Monica Jackson April 9, 2018, 9:44 am
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NASA’s Solar Probe to Undergo Final Assembly, Tests at Astrotech Facility in Florida

A solar probe Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory designed and built for NASAÂ has arrived at Lockheed Martin‘s Astrotech Space Operations facility in Florida to begin pre-launch tests and preparations. APL said Thursday the Parker Solar ProbeÂ is scheduled to lift off July 31 at the Kennedy Space Center to study the sun’s outer atmosphere over […] More

by Mary-Louise Hoffman April 9, 2018, 9:42 am
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Aerospace Corp.â€™s Randy Kendall: Space Tech Drives Renewed Military Interest in Startups

Randy Kendall, vice president of launch program operations at Aerospace Corp., has said the U.S. military has showed renewed interest in partnering with commercial space startups driven by technological advances and space-based national security threats, SpaceNews reported Sunday. â€œToday feels like 1998, that was the last time we had the same level of enthusiasm with […] More

by Jane Edwards April 9, 2018, 7:20 am
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Report: Boeingâ€™s MQ-25 Tanker Drone Offering Undergoes Tests Ahead of Source Selection Decision

Boeing has already conducted several tests of its proposed unmanned aircraft system for the U.S. Navyâ€™sÂ MQ-25 Stingray carrier-based aerial refueling tanker drone program ahead of the serviceâ€™s contract award decision, National Defense reported Friday. â€œWe have already demonstrated a lot of the functionalityâ€¦ We have done almost everything short of flying,â€ Donald â€œBDâ€ Gaddis, Boeing’s […] More

by Jane Edwards April 9, 2018, 3:41 am
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Saudi Crown Prince Tours Lockheed’s Sunnyvale, Calif. Facility; Marillyn Hewson Comments

Lockheed Martin CEO Marillyn Hewson hostedÂ Saudi ArabianÂ Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman during his visit Thursday at a company site inÂ Sunnyvale, California. MBS toured the facility where Lockheed currently builds a pair of communications satellites for operator Arabsat and the King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology, the company said Friday. “He also met the Saudi […] More

by Mary-Louise Hoffman April 9, 2018, 3:15 am
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NASA Taps Aerospace to Study Earth’s Atmospheric, Ionospheric Changes

Aerospace has received a $2.85 millionÂ NASA grant to studyÂ the gradual changes occurring in theÂ atmosphere and ionosphere of earth. The research effort will make use of sixÂ CubeSat units that will compose theÂ Daily Atmospheric Ionospheric Limb Imager, the company said Thursday. DAILI will be built to provide atmospheric data needed for orbital calculations and studies on radio […] More

by Nichols Martin April 6, 2018, 9:31 am
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Drive System Design Unveils New Facility to Aid Defense Vehicle Development

Drive System Design‘sÂ North American subsidiary has established a new facility inÂ Michigan to support theÂ design, test and development of defense vehicles. The facility is meant to help the defense industry build vehicles that consume less fuel without compromisingÂ lethality or passenger safety, the engineering consultancy said Friday. “Improving fuel consumption has a direct impact on the safety […] More

by Ramona Adams April 6, 2018, 9:24 am
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General Atomics’ Avenger RPA Conducts Nearly 24-Hour Continuous Flight

General Atomics‘ aeronautical systems business has flown an extended-range version of its Avenger remotely piloted aircraft forÂ 23.4 hours continuously. TheÂ Avenger Extended Range RPA set aÂ new endurance record and surpassed aÂ flight test goal of 20 hours, General Atomics said Thursday. During the test, the Avenger ER operated in an intelligence, surveillance andÂ reconnaissance configuration while performing aÂ simulated […] More

by Ramona Adams April 6, 2018, 8:49 am
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National Strategic Research Institute Lands $92M R&D Contract With Air Force

TheÂ University of Nebraska’sÂ National Strategic Research Institute has received aÂ $92 millionÂ contract from the U.S. Air Force to provideÂ research, development and engineering services. NSRI will also conduct mission-related research efforts such as test, evaluation and systems analysis of U. S. Strategic Command-related topics, theÂ Defense Department said Thursday. The institute will perform work at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln […] More

by Nichols Martin April 6, 2018, 7:28 am
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EIS Vendors Test Business Support Systems

A new General Services Administration report says vendors that won spots on a potential 15-year, $50 billion contract for telecommunications services have made progress in testing back-office systems they will implement in support of that contract, FCW reported Thursday. GSA released an update Wednesday on each companyâ€™s effort to perform Business Support Systems tests as […] More

by Jane Edwards April 6, 2018, 7:17 am