ExecutiveBiz News on Video 1/11/2023

The U.S. Air Force flew for the first time a Lockheed Martin-built F-35 fighter aircraft with the Technology Refresh 3 upgrade on Friday, Jan. 6, at Edwards Air Force Base in California. TR-3 updates the fighter jet’s computational core to support Block 4 capabilities, including new sensors, improved electronic warfare functions, data fusion, long-range precision […]

2022 proved to be a milestone year for the Department of Defense’s Joint All-Domain Command and Control initiative, and federal leaders are anticipating even more progress in 2023 as JADC2 begins to take shape across the DOD.  The DOD released its JADC2 strategy in June 2021, laying out goals and marking an important first step in […]

General Dynamics‘ information technology segment has secured a potential seven-year, $152 million contract from the Alabama Supercomputer Authority to operate and support the state-funded agency’s computer and network systems. Work under the contract will include delivering high-performance computing, enterprise network management, cybersecurity, application development and hybrid multi-cloud environment hosting services, General Dynamics Information Technology said […]

L. Neil Thurgood, a retired U.S. Army lieutenant general with almost four decades of military service, has joined the board of advisers of the defense and space-focused company BlueHalo. As a member, Thurgood will be responsible for advising an array of strategic efforts to expand BlueHalo’s presence in the defense and national security markets, the company said Wednesday. […]

Ball Aerospace has completed two phases in the development of the Weather System Follow-on-Microwave satellite for the U.S. Space Force. The finalization of the system’s spacecraft bus and the conclusion of its microwave imager technology’s environmental assessment will propel the project into its final assembly, integration and testing stages, Ball Aerospace announced from Broomfield, Colorado on Tuesday. […]

Northrop Grumman and the Naval Research Laboratory have conducted an at-sea demonstration of key components of an electronic attack prototype system designed to equip smaller naval vessels with anti-ship missile defense capabilities. The Ultra-Lite Electronic Attack system is a size, weight and power-optimized platform designed to integrate Northrop’s transceiver technology into NRL’s expeditionary EA antenna, […]

Satellite manufacturer and Earth observation company Capella Space raised $60 million in fresh capital from the U.S. Innovative Technology Fund as it seeks to meet the growing demand for high-quality synthetic aperture radar imagery and analytics services.  Capella Space said Tuesday the additional equity will support the San Francisco-based company in expanding its satellite imaging […]

The defense and rocket system services division of Kratos Defense & Security Solutions has been given an initial task order to support Leidos in its work on the U.S. Air Force air-breathing hypersonic missile program. Kratos said Tuesday it will perform digitally engineered system requirement and conceptual design reviews of the Expendable Hypersonic Multi-Mission ISR […]

The National Science Foundation and SpaceX have signed a new coordination agreement to mitigate the potential impact of the company’s Starlink satellite constellation on ground-based radio, infrared and optical astronomy facilities operating between the 10.6 and 10.7 GHz band. Under the agreement, SpaceX committed to examining the impact of astronomical facility lasers on satellites, coordinating […]

Charles River Analytics completed a Small Business Innovation Research Phase 1 contract centered on the automation of the Missile Defense Agency’s software compliance evaluation process. The project, which was awarded in December 2021, sought a tool to facilitate compliance with the MDA Assurance Provisions for software products, Charles River said Tuesday. To aid the agency’s […]