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Northrop Grumman  has completed the integrated baseline review for the U.S. Air Force‘s Enhanced Polar System Control and Planning Communication technology. The company performed production, deployment and initial sustainment evaluation for the communications system the Air Force uses to transmit telemetry and supplies configuration commands and cryptographic planning to polar users, Northrop said Monday. The military’s satellite communications systems directorate […] More

Domingo Urena Raso, executive vice president for military aircraft at Airbus‘ defense and space business, said that international industry cooperation is possible to address demand for technology around the world, Defense News reported Sunday. “Industry knows how to cooperate internationally.. there is not a program that is made only by one company as far as I remember,” Raso […] More

Ball Aerospace & Technologies has supplied four phased array antennas and three cameras for the Lockheed Martin-built Orion spacecraft. Orion’s antenna system is comprised of more than 5,000 components and designed to transmit data and voice communications from the capsule’s liftoff until its splashdown, Ball Aerospace said Friday. The company based its Orion flight test […] More

SAP‘s Australian business plans to invest $150 million over a five-year period in the future SAP Institute of Digital Government and a new data center in Canberra, Inside SAP reported Monday. Freya Purnell reports that the data center will offer SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud services to support citizen services and cloud-first policies at Australian federal government agencies. The SAP Institute of […] More

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has cleared Exelon‘s proposed acquisition of power distribution company Pepco Holdings. “FERC’s approval is another step forward toward completing this transaction,” Chris Crane, president and CEO of Exelon, said Friday. The companies aim to merge their electric and natural gas utility operations in a bid to expand their footprint in […] More

The U.S. Air Force has asked industry to submit information on a directional tactical data links and networks that are designed to work at higher frequencies. A Nov. 18 request for information calls for details on industry offerings and research and development efforts on tactical data links and interoperable networking systems. The service also seeks industry input on waveform agility to create capacity, latency, jam resistance […] More