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BAE Systems has completed the 1,000th vertical landing of a Lockheed Martin-built F-35B as part of an ongoing flight test program. BAE said Friday Peter Wilson – lead test pilot for the short takeoff and vertical landing variant of the F-35 — performed the landing at Naval Air Station Patuxent River six years after BAE pilot Graham Tomlinson conducted the first vertical landing. “Every day, […] More

Mike Petters, president and CEO of Huntington Ingalls Industries, has said HII has secured approximately 20 percent of shipbuilding work on the U.S. Navy’s entire Ohio-class replacement program with General Dynamics as prime contractor. He told Defense News reporter Christoper Cavas in an interview published Sunday that ORP prompts HII to align its design plans as well as […] More

The Energy Department has opted to extend its contract with Battelle for an additional five years to to operate the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and will not hold a competition for a contract to help run PNNL, Tri-City Herald reported Friday. Annette Cary writes that the current contract will expire in September 2017 and DOE looks to continue the five-decade […] More

Eight technology proposals from organizations in the academia, private and public sector have been selected for the second phase of NASA’s aerospace research and development program with up to $500,000 in funds for each submission. Proposers will develop for two years the concepts funded under the first phase of NASA’s Innovative Advanced Concepts program and […] More