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Lockheed Martin test pilot Mark Ward has become the first to fly the T-50A for 100 hours. The company said Wednesday Mark Ward’s T-50A flight was part of the company’s contribution to the U.S. Air Force‘s Advanced Pilot Training competition. Lockheed announced the T-50A’s APT participation in February 2016. The test-flying began November 2016 at the Greenville site. The aircraft was built […] More

Harris has built a digital mission data unit for potential integration into the navigation payload of the U.S. Air Force‘s 11th and succeeding GPS III satellites. The company said Wednesday its MDU technology is designed to increase signal strength and flexibility of the GPS III Space Vehicle 11+ compared with the Harris-made payload on current GPS III satellites built […] More

Raytheon has powered up a new Common Ground System the company built to support an upcoming launch of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration‘s Joint Polar Satellite System. Version 2 of JPSS CGS is designed to transmit observations from 11 future polar-orbiting satellites to NOAA’s National Weather Service agency at a rate 50 percent faster than that of the original […] More

Northrop Grumman has been selected by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to help develop a graph processor chip technology as part of DARPA’s Hierarchical Identify Verify Exploit program. The company said Tuesday it will collaborate with five other parties in efforts to examine the performance of graph algorithms when incorporated into the HIVE chip. HIVE seeks to implement a generic graph […] More

A small satellite built by Maxar Technologies‘ SSL subsidiary for Telesat has been delivered to the Vostochny Cosmodrome launch base in Eastern Russia ahead of its scheduled late November launch aboard a Soyuz-2 rocket. SSL said the satellite will be one of two Phase 1 spacecraft that will help Telesat test the key performance parameters of its future low […] More

Orbital ATK has conducted a structural acceptance test on a motor composite case built to support the company’s Next Generation Launch family of space launch vehicles. The company said Tuesday the test demonstrated the structural loads’ capacity to generate more than 110 percent of the anticipated maximum motor operating pressure as well as operational, flight and […] More

The Defense Department‘s Joint Interoperability Test Command has tested the compatibility of communications technology platforms from Atos‘ Unify subsidiary and T-Metrics. Unify said Tuesday its OpenScape Voice system underwent a joint interoperability test with T-Metrics’ TM-2000 Multi-Purpose ACD Platform and TM-2000 Consolidated Answering System. The OpenScape voice session controller is certified by JITC and employs security tools based […] More

A new survey commissioned by Accenture and Salesforce says 49 percent of U.S. adults prefer to access government services through websites. Accenture said Tuesday 31 percent of respondents cited agency-specific telephone service as the most desired type of access; 25 percent prefer mobile devices without the use of applications; and 21 percent favor a single 311 telephone […] More

The Defense Department has begun to exchange initial price and technical data with Japan on the ground-based Aegis missile defense system to kick-off an acquisition process that could lead to a formal notification to Congress of a potential foreign military sale,  Bloomberg reported Tuesday. Japan aims to purchase two Aegis Ashore systems from the U.S. government and start […] More

Cubic‘s transportation systems business has received a five-year, $3 million contract extension to help the North County Transit District in San Diego, California, maintain automated ticketing machines and platform validators. NCTD serves as a regional partner for the Cubic-designed Compass fare payment system being used throughout San Diego County, the company said Tuesday. The company has supported maintenance […] More

Lockheed Martin has delivered full mission simulators to air forces of international F-35 operators including Israel, Italy, Japan and Norway to support pilot training at operating bases across the four countries. The company said Monday the F-35 FMS units will aid pilot qualification, continuation and mission rehearsal training activities and help cater to the rising […] More

NASA has selected Super Micro Computer to help expand the capacity of computing and data analytics systems at the space agency’s Center for Climate Simulation. Supermicro said Monday it will provide a company-built Rack Scale platform that will offer 1.56 petaflops of additional computing capacity to NCCS. NCCS is located within the Computational and Information Sciences and Technology […] More