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  • Lockheed Puts New Northrop AESA Radars In F-16V Jet - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Puts New Northrop AESA Radars In F-16V Jet

    Lockheed Martin has completed the integration of Northrop Grumman‘s Scalable Agile Beam Radar into the F-16V aircraft as part of a design review stage in the U.S. Air Force‘s F-16 modernization program. Lockheed said Wednesday that the active electronically scanned array radar meets its requirements and those of the Air Force as they aim to launch the F-16V variant in Taiwan. Other updates to Taiwan’s fleet […] More

  • BAE Systems Completes Aircraft Survivability Tool Design Review; Bill Staib Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Systems Completes Aircraft Survivability Tool Design Review; Bill Staib Comments

    BAE Systems has completed the design review for its aircraft survivability equipment intended to help detect missile threats. The tool has been updated to work with other survivability technologies by obtaining data from radar and laser warning receivers, BAE Systems said Wednesday. BAE Systems intends for the equipment to help minimize workloads for U.S. Army […] More

  • Lockheed to Start Asteroid Explorer Spacecraft Construction; Rich Kuhns Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Start Asteroid Explorer Spacecraft Construction; Rich Kuhns Comments

    Lockheed Martin will start building a spacecraft that NASA will use to collect particles from a near-Earth asteroid and return those samples to the planet for analysis. An independent review panel has validated Lockheed’s design plan for the spacecraft, instruments and ground system under NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer program, Lockheed said […] More

  • Larry Trager: Aerojet Rocketdyne to Test Space Station Lithium-Ion Batteries - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Larry Trager: Aerojet Rocketdyne to Test Space Station Lithium-Ion Batteries

    Aeroject Rocketdyne has reviewed its design of new lithium-ion batteries that are built to power the International Space Station‘s electrical system. The batteries are designed to replace the current nickel hydrogen batteries onboard the ISS and to provide electricity for ISS crew members to perform scientific experiments, Aerojet Rocketdyne said Monday. Larry Trager, director of advanced […] More

  • Northrop, NASA Move Webb Telescope Spacecraft Through Design Review - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop, NASA Move Webb Telescope Spacecraft Through Design Review

    An independent panel of experts has completed the critical design review on the spacecraft for the James Webb Space Telescope, which Northrop Grumman is building for NASA. The review finished five months ahead of schedule and took place after 76 preceding reviews of the telescope’s spacecraft, Northrop announced Friday. Northrop is building the spacecraft to point the […] More