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The U.S. Navy has tapped Northrop Grumman to explore the feasibility of firing a guided air-launched missile from a ground-based launcher and integrating the weapon system onto the P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol and reconnaissance aircraft, The Drive reported Friday. Northrop is expected to demonstrate a ground-based variant of the AGM-88G Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile Extended […] More
BAE Systems has tested small unmanned aerial systems from Lockheed Martin‘s Skunk Works division on a variant of the Amphibious Combat Vehicle designed to support U.S. Marine Corps reconnaissance missions. The Stalker and Indago platforms were part of verification tests aimed to demonstrate the ACV’s potential to carry out command, control, communication and computers/UAS missions, […] More
Northrop Grumman has performed wind tunnel testing to demonstrate the design maturity of the U.S. Air Force’s next-generation intercontinental ballistic missile system. Scaled models of the LGM-35A Sentinel ICBM underwent seven comprehensive test campaigns to measure how it would respond to conditions simulating missile launch procedures and various flight maneuvers, Northrop said Thursday. Sarah Willoughby, […] More
Nav Singh, a more than 10-year Dell Technologies veteran, has joined zero trust cybersecurity platform developer Fornetix as vice president of federal sales, according to a LinkedIn post published Thursday. He joined the Maryland-headquartered company from real-time data platform provider Aerospike where he served as director. Before joining Aerospike, Singh was an account executive at […] More
Boeing and NASA have jointly unveiled a new manufacturing area at the Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, Louisiana, where it will accommodate the production of exploration upper stage for future flights of the Space Launch System rocket. The EUS Gray Box Assembly Area houses tools and equipment necessary to produce the second stage of […] More
Constellis’ Centerra Group business has secured an $11 million contract to help U.S. Army Europe maintain military vehicles used to support live training exercises at the Joint Multinational Readiness Center in Hohenfels, Germany. Under the three-year contract, Centerra will provide administrative, logistics and maintenance services in support of the prepositioned training fleet located at the […] More
Oracle has selected consultancy firm Accenture to help train Department of Veterans Affairs clinicians on the Cerner-built electronic health record platform, FedScoop reported Tuesday. Under the recently signed contract, Accenture will provide additional training to VA clinicians in support of the next rollout of the Cerner EHR system, according to Ken Glueck, executive vice president […] More
Parsons‘ space-focused integrated center is working to unify government and commercial technologies and services designed to support spacecraft operations. The Parsons Space Operations Center aims to address the demand for integrated and automated capabilities including telemetry processing, data delivery, mission planning, command and control and testing, the company said Tuesday. “PSOC is providing operational support […] More
A subsidiary of Raytheon Technologies has won a contract from the U.S. Navy to deliver a software-based GPS navigation and precision approach landing system to the Japanese navy. Under the foreign military sales contract from Naval Air Traffic Management Systems Program Office, Raytheon Intelligence & Space said Monday it will deploy the Joint Precision Approach […] More
Northrop Grumman has partnered with the U.S. Navy and BAE Systems to test its airborne gateway technology aboard an unmanned aerial system to provide interoperability among disconnected maritime assets. During the flight test, the gateway was installed into the MQ-4C Triton flying test bed to distribute fifth-generation sensor data to ground-based simulators representing various platforms […] More
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has selected Galois to advance to the final phase of the Safe Documents program under which the software company will develop new methods of enhancing the cybersecurity of electronic data formats. Galois said Friday it will partner with Verocel and Real-Time Innovations to create a code generator meant to […] More
NASA has selected Blue Origin‘s New Glenn heavy-lift rocket to send to space a pair of identical small satellites to observe the magnetosphere around Mars. Blue Origin secured a task order under the $300 million Venture-Class Acquisition of Dedicated and Rideshare contract to launch the Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers mission in late […] More
