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NASA and Orbital ATK have completed the second qualification ground test of a booster for the Space Launch System, which the agency developed with Boeing to send the Lockheed Martin-built Orion crew module on deep-space missions. The test occurred Tuesday at an Orbital ATK facility in Utah and was the final booster evaluation before the scheduled unmanned flight of the Orion […] More

A report by Deloitte predicts economic forces will continue to drive moderate defense commitments globally and will increase the relative parity among military capabilities through 2020. The company’s latest Global Defense Outlook report forecasts that the combined annual defense budget of the 50 countries studied will remain flat at nearly $1.6 trillion  over the next five years, Deloitte said Monday. Those nations account […] More

Orbital ATK has completed the expansion of its facility in Northridge, California, to accommodate the production of the company’s AAR-47 missile warning system and Common Munition Bit Reprogramming Equipment. The company said Monday that it transitioned the AAR-47 and CMBRE product lines from Florida to the updated facility. The Northridge installation also produces the Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile […] More

Rear Adm. Charles Richard, a U.S. Navy official, has said the service branch has begun development work on a prototype of a new Mk 48 torpedo version designed to target hostile weapons, submarines and ships at a longer range, Scout Warrior reported Monday. Richard, director of undersea warfare, told Scout Warrior reporter Kris Osborn in an interview the Navy […] More