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    Austal USA Hosts Christening of Navy’s 10th Expeditionary Fast Transport Ship

    The 10th expeditionary fast transport ship Austal USA is constructing for the U.S. Navy was christened Saturday at the company’s shipbuilding facility in Alabama. Austal said Saturday the future USNS Burlington is part of a 12-ship contract worth potentially $1.9 billion. The EPF 10 christening ceremony featured Rear Adm. Dee Mewbourne, commander of the Military Sealift Command, as well as Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) and […] More

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    Air Force Seeks Space Tech R&D Proposals

    The U.S. Air Force has requested proposals from small businesses that can research and develop technologies to optimize the U.S. military’s space systems. The Air Force said Friday in a FedBizOpps notice that the Spacecraft Object Tracking and Characterization program will cover space systems such as launch platforms, payload adapters, on-orbit systems, communications links, ground systems and […] More

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    Report: New Lockheed Missile Aims to Target UAVs, Mortars

    Lockheed Martin has begun to develop a new missile designed to target and destroy incoming projectiles through the use of a radar system and kinetic energy, the New York Post reported Friday. The company has recently tested in New Mexico the Miniature Hit to Kill Missile platform, which is based on the technology used in the […] More

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    Navy Taps Cubic, Lockheed to Develop Combined Arms Evaluation Methods

    The U.S. Navy has awarded potential three-year contracts to business units of Cubic and Lockheed Martin to develop quantitative methods to assess and explore combined arms concepts for urban military operations. Cubic’s defense applications business and Lockheed’s rotary and mission systems unit are two of the five selected contractors for a project that will revolve around human capacities, systems, plans, software […] More

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    General Dynamics NASSCO Delivers 2nd Expeditionary Sea Base to Navy

    General Dynamics‘ NASSCO subsidiary has officially transferred a second Expeditionary Sea Base platform to the U.S. Navy. The Military Sealift Command will operate the USNS Hershel “Woody” Williams (ESB 4) ship that NASSCO constructed at a San Diego shipyard, the Naval Sea Systems Command said Thursday. ESB 4 is named after a U.S. Marine Corps veteran who received the […] More

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    Reports: UTC, Rockwell Collins Pick Florida for ‘Collins Aerospace’ Exec Office

    Rockwell Collins has released a proposed organizational structure for a new entity that would be formed once United Technologies Corp. completes its acquisition of the Cedar Rapids, Iowa-based avionics contractor, The Gazette reported Thursday. Farmington, Connecticut-based UTC agreed to buy Rockwell Collins in September 2017 for approximately $30 billion and will combine the latter company with the […] More

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    Report: US Aerospace Firms Eye Rocket Launches From Brazil

    U.S. aerospace companies have shown interest in launching rockets from Brazil during a visit to the country’s Alcantara military base in December, Reuters reported Friday. Representatives from Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Microcosm, SpaceX and Vector Space Systems participated in the trip that was organized by Rubens Barbosa, a former Brazilian ambassador to U.S. Raul Jungmann, Brazil’s defense […] More

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    Textron’s Bell Helicopter Subsidiary Renamed as ‘Bell’

    Textron‘s Bell Helicopter subsidiary has changed its name to “Bell” and adopted a new logo to reflect the company’s focus on innovation and customer experience. Bell said Thursday it collaborated with brand and design consultancy FutureBrand to complete the rebranding, which will be carried out over the next year. The two companies started the project in the […] More

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    Lockheed Martin, Fincantieri Lay Keel on USS Minneapolis-Saint Paul

    Lockheed Martin and Fincantieri have performed the keel-laying for the USS Minneapolis-Saint Paul littoral combat ship at latter company’s Marinette Marine site in Wisconsin. The companies are currently conducting the Freedom-class LCS’ full-rate production, having delivered five of them to the U.S. Navy, Lockheed said Thursday. During the keel-laying ceremony, Jodi Greene, the ship’s sponsor, had her initials welded […] More

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    Survey Highlights Data Sharing Opportunity in Federal IT Modernization Efforts; Red Hat’s David Egts Comments

    A new report by MeriTalk has found that 73 percent of federal information technology leaders said that deriving data from legacy applications is vital in efforts to advance government reform and use of shared services. The publication said Thursday it conducted an online survey of 275 federal IT leaders in January for the report, which was […] More

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    Orbital ATK Celebrates 5,000th F-35 Aircraft Composite Parts

    Orbital ATK celebrates manufacturing 5,000 total composite parts for the F-35 aircraft. The company said Wednesday its Clearfield, Utah facility is responsible for manufacturing nearly 90 percent of the F-35’s wing skins, fixed skins, engine nacelles and access covers, using automated fiber placement machines. Janicki Industries furnishes the parts for further engineering viability before the final delivery to Lockheed […] More

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    Red Hat’s David Egts: Microservices Tech Could Help Simplify App Deployment

    David Egts, chief technologist for Red Hat’s public sector, told MeriTalk in an interview published Wednesday that the microservices technology works to help the developer split complex, large applications into small components and share them with other members of the DevOps team. “Instead of one big hulking team working on one big hulking application, you can have […] More