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Lockheed Martin has shipped an initial batch of long range anti-ship missiles to the U.S. Air Force after completing integration, flight test, simulation and modeling requirements. The company said Tuesday its LRASM system reached an early operational capability status on the military service’s B-1B bomber aircraft ahead of schedule. The missile is built to detect and counter target ships in […] More

KLX Aerospace Solutions will rename itself “Boeing Distribution Services” in a move slated to take effect Feb. 4. The name change notice, published Tuesday, came two months after Boeing completed its purchase of the Florida-based aviation parts and services provider for $3.2B cash. The Chicago-based aircraft manufacturer said the deal was part of its push to expand offerings […] More

Lockheed Martin and Universal Synaptics have partnered to leverage an automated testing platform in efforts to help the Department of Defense address intermittence in electronics used on military aircraft, ground vehicles and ships. Both companies agreed to utilize Universal Synaptic’s Intermittent Fault Detection tool to identify fault anomalies in multidomain platform electronics and wiring harnesses, Lockheed said […] More

Huntington Ingalls Industries has launched the U.S. Navy‘s 18th Virginia-class nuclear-powered fast attack submarine into the water at a company facility in Newport News, Va. HII said Monday it used a transfer car system in order to put USS Delaware into a floating dry platform that was submerged to discharge the submarine into the James River. Dave Bolcar, vice president of […] More

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will conduct a Proposers Day on Jan. 22 in Arlington, Va., to discuss a new program that aims to build and demonstrate structures designed to address the thermal challenge associated with hypersonic vehicles’ leading edges. “For decades people have studied cooling the hot leading edges of hypersonic vehicles but […] More

Mark Forman, global head of Unisys‘ public sector business, told Government Matters in an interview published Sunday that agency chief information officers should adopt a new approach to monitor federal information technology investments. He cited a Government Accountability Office report indicating that CIOs oversaw nearly 78K IT procurement transactions that accounted for only $14B out […] More

Chris Sambar, a senior vice president at AT&T, has said the company’s efforts to fulfill communications support requests from FirstNet subscribers during 2018 attracted more public safety agencies to adopt the nationwide first-responder network, Urgent Communications reported Friday. He noted the telecommunications firm has resolved 90 requests this year, four to six times higher than the number recorded […] More

A Lockheed Martin-led industry team launched the U.S. Navy‘s 19th littoral combat ship into the Menominee River in Wisconsin during a ceremony held Saturday. Barbara Broadhurst Taylor, the ship’s sponsor and daughter of a decorated pilot during World War II, led the USS St. Louis christening at a Fincantieri Marinette Marine-owned shipyard before the launch, Lockheed said […] More

The Department of Labor has chosen Eaton to receive DOL’s HIRE Vets Medallion Award in recognition of the power management company’s efforts to recruit, employ and retain military veterans. Eaton said Friday the department evaluates award recipients based on criteria such as leadership programming, compensation and tuition assistance programs and availability of resources for the country’s former active-duty service […] More

The Defense Threat Reduction Agency has issued a presolicitation to lay out its technical reachback operational support needs. A FedBizOpps notice posted Thursday says DTRA wants potential contractors that could help develop weapons of mass destruction modeling tools and manage decision support analysis programs related to chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear explosives. Other tasks include configuration management of research-and-development software; […] More

Kratos Defense and Security Solutions and Space Vector have teamed up to design, manufacture and integrate a suborbital launch vehicle under the U.S. Air Force’s Sounding Rocket Program-4. The industry team will build the rocket to support tests of prototype weapons and missile defense systems, Kratos said Wednesday. Space Vector and Northrop Grumman‘s innovation systems segment won positions […] More