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Northrop Grumman‘s Space Logistics subsidiary will provide an additional mission extension pod to extend the life of an unidentified Intelsat-built commercial communications satellite operating in geosynchronous orbit for at least six years. The MEP jet pack marks Intelsat’s fourth satellite servicing vehicle order with the Northrop business to add life to its GEO satellites, the […] More
A Triumph Group business will deliver environmental cooling systems to Boeing under a multi-year contract for use on the latter’s AH-64 Apache helicopters. Triumph Systems, Electronics and Controls will provide ECS designed to ensure that the Apache AH-64 crew stations have conditioned heating and cooling air and the Extended Forward Avionics Bays have cooling air […] More
A Griffon Aerospace unmanned aerial system equipped with a computing device from Parry Labs has flown at a Huntsville, Alabama, private airfield. The recent flight of Valiant, Griffon’s tactical UAS offering for the U.S. Army’s Future Tactical Unmanned Aircraft System competition, included the Edge Compute Micro technology, Parry Labs said Monday. EC Micro is powered […] More
Haywood Talcove, CEO of the government group at LexisNexis Risk Solutions, said criminals can take advantage of artificial intelligence algorithms, particularly generative AI, to perform fraud across several sectors and that government agencies should acknowledge the threat posed by AI tools to their organizations and entitlement programs. Talcove wrote in an opinion piece published Monday […] More
CesiumAstro, a developer of active phased array communications payloads for airborne and in-orbit platforms, has secured funding from the U.S. Air Force to install a satellite communications terminal onto a General Atomics-built MQ-9A remotely piloted aircraft. The company will use the fund to build a size, weight and power-optimized satcom terminal to demonstrate airborne connectivity […] More
GE Aerospace developed a computational fluid dynamics software that could be paired with the Department of Energy’s supercomputer, Frontier, to support engine development. The company said Saturday it conducted simulations on Frontier using the software to evaluate the performance of a novel open fan engine architecture, which is showing promise in helping reduce carbon emissions […] More
Pratt & Whitney, a subsidiary of Raytheon Technologies— now rebranded as RTX, has increased the number of team members working on the preliminary design review of the F135 jet engine core upgrade and is on schedule to finish the PDR and begin the detailed design phase early next year. The company said Monday that the […] More
Aerojet Rocketdyne and the Air Force Research Laboratory have conducted a qualification static fire test of a large solid rocket engine the company built for the Missile Defense Agency’s medium-range ballistic missile target. The company said Monday its Coleman Aerospace subsidiary developed the eSR-19, a revamped SR-19 variant, to feature a lighter composite case and performance […] More
Spirit AeroSystems has booked a contract to develop a concept for making airframe structures for a project that supports NASA’s Sustainable Flight National Partnership with the aviation sector. NASA awarded the grant under the Hi-Rate Composite Aircraft Manufacturing project involving 14 organizations that will conduct initial development efforts, Spirit said Tuesday. The HiCAM awardees collectively […] More
Lou Von Thaer, president and CEO of Battelle, received his 2023 Wash100 Award from Jim Garrettson, CEO of Executive Mosaic and founder of the elite recognition, during a recent visit to the nonprofit science and technology company’s Washington, D.C. location. Wash100 Award is an annual selection of the top 100 leaders in the government contracting […] More
Raytheon Technologies, now known as RTX following a rebranding effort, will move about 4,700 positions and work related to Joint All-Domain Command and Control to Collins Aerospace, effective July 1, as part of a business realignment initiative, C4ISRNET reported Monday. In January, the defense and aerospace contractor announced plans to restructure its four businesses into […] More
System High has been included in The Washington Post’s list of top workplaces in Washington, D.C. for 2023. The recognition is the fourth year the Chantilly, Virginia-based company was named to the annual list of the best places to work in the area based on an employee survey, System High said Friday. The Washington Post […] More
