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Boeing has signed a deal to design and build seven medium earth orbit satellites for SES to deliver data communications services for clients worldwide. O3b mPOWER satellites will feature Boeing’s digital payload technologies along with customized electronics from the 702 satellite platform, the company said Monday. Paul Rusnock, chairman and CEO of Boeing Satellite Systems International, […] More

Lockheed Martin’s Sikorsky subsidiary has found that issues associated with the flight control software caused the Aug. 2 hard landing incident involving the S-97 Raider aircraft prototype, Vertical Magazine reported Monday. The incident occurred as the prototype carried out a vertical take-off operation at the start of the test flight at the company’s flight center […] More

Northrop Grumman‘s Amherst Systems business has received a contract to supply radio frequency signal generation technology in support of the U.S. Navy‘s Next-Generation Electronic Warfare Environment Generator program. The NEWEG program aims to incorporate threat laboratory and free space simulation features into the Navy’s generator, Northrop said Monday. Northrop’s RF generation platform is equipped with an advanced pulse generation […] More

Harris has received a contract from MBDA to supply carriage and release technology for the latter’s SPEAR precision strike missiles. Harris said Tuesday it will deliver four internal bay-compatible SCORPION lightweight ejection rack units for each of the weapon bays of two U.K. F-35 Joint Strike Fighter aircraft. “The MBDA SPEAR weapon, combined with our delivery system, […] More

Huntington Ingalls Industries will help the U.S. Navy procure and manage long lead-time materials for cruiser and destroyer ships under a one-year, $12.8 million contract modification. The Defense Department said Monday the company will help plan yard services for the service branch’s CG-47 cruisers and DD 63 destroyers. HII currently provides engineering, technical, planning, ship configuration, data and […] More

Science Applications International Corp. has secured a $34.6 million contract to help the Missile Defense Agency further develop an analysis technology to support modeling of the Ballistic Missile Defense System‘s expected performance. The Defense Department said Monday SAIC will support analysis efforts by the MDA director for engineering’s quick reaction team and the agency’s BMDS research, development and […] More

Intermap Technologies has secured a $3.3 million task order modification to provide geospatial three-dimensional infrastructure services to the U.S. government. The company said Monday it will update a digital elevation model to help government users collect, edit and provision elevation and image layers into a high-resolution geospatial database. Intermap will use its proprietary airborne sensor and processing […] More

Homeland Security Solutions Inc. has received a $17.1 million contract for program management, human resources and training services to the U.S. Marine Corps. HSSI will also provide non-guard security support to the military branch and is scheduled to complete work under the sole-source contract by March 10, 2018, the Defense Department said Monday. DoD noted that USMC will […] More

Orbital ATK has begun assembly work on an in-space satellite servicing vehicle after the company received approximately 75 percent of payload and platform components through its Virginia-based manufacturing facility. Orbital ATK said Monday it is scheduled to launch the Mission Extension Vehicle-1 in late 2018 to provide satellite extension services to Intelsat by early 2019 […] More

A joint venture of Kratos Defense and Security Solutions‘ Digital Fusion Solutions subsidiary and Vencore has received a task order to help the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command design a laser system for target acquisition, tracking and engagement. QWK Integrated Solutions will support design work on the Army’s future High Energy Laser Tactical Vehicle Demonstrator system under […] More

Raytheon has teamed up with Ducommun to develop fire control platforms for the Naval Strike Missile designed for integration with U.S. Navy frigates and littoral combat ships. Production work on the fire control systems is slated to commence later this year at Ducommun’s facilities in Huntsville and Berryville in Arkansas, Raytheon said Monday. NSM is a long-range, […] More

The U.S. Navy has performed a simultaneous air and ballistic missile defense flight test with a Raytheon-made air and missile defense radar off the coast of Hawaii on Thursday. The AN/SPY-6(V) radar worked to detect and track a short-range ballistic missile target and multiple air-to-surface cruise missile targets during the test, the Navy said Friday. The demonstration […] More