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General Atomics will supply the U.S. Air Force with an additional eight production configuration MQ-9 Reaper Block 5 unmanned aerial vehicles under a $72 million contract modification. The Defense Department said Wednesday the company’s aeronautical systems business will perform contract work in Poway, California, through Dec. 31, 2017. DoD noted that the full obligated amount is from fiscal 2014 […] More
SpaceX President and COO Gwynne Shotwell has told Defense News that the company continues to work with the U.S. Air Force as it seeks certification for military space launches by June. Shotwell told Aaron Mehta in an interview published Monday that SpaceX has worked to address cultural challenges during the certification process and reached a new understanding with the service on the […] More
Raytheon is set to kick off low rate initial production of small diameter bombs after the company completed a decision briefing for the weapon system in coordination with the U.S. Air Force. The company conducted the Milestone C briefing after performing functional configuration audit, production readiness review and system verification on the Small Diameter Bomb II […] More
Raytheon has shipped the initial hardware it built for the operational control technology of the U.S. Air Force’s global positioning system. The company said Thursday GPS OCX is designed to oversee the movements and capabilities of GPS satellites during ground, naval and aerial missions and safeguard the equipment from potential cyber threats. The Colorado-based Schriver […] More
The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory wants industry proposals for a program to build and demonstrate a munition system that would hit targets at a hypersonic speed, Military & Aerospace Electronics reported Thursday. John Keller writes AFRL’s munition directorate issued a broad agency announcement to solicit ideas about possible enabling technologies for the High Speed […] More
Cubic‘s global defense business segment has secured a $1.7 million subcontract from Support Systems Associates Inc. to help secure communications in civil and combat search-and-rescue missions for the U.S. Air Force Sustainment Center. Cubic said Thursday SSAI will install the second-generation AN/ARS-6 Lightweight Airborne Recovery System into the weapons system platform of the Air Force’s Lockheed Martin-built HC-130J aircraft. Bill Toti, president […] More
Michael Niggel serves as CEO of Advanced Concepts and Technologies International, where he oversees the analysis and development of business models for all major F-35 contractors. Niggel performs business management, business case analyses, and cost estimating services for foreign military sales case managers for the JSF program office. He also helps U.S. and international partners, […] More
The U.S. Air Force has chosen Array Information Technology to upgrade the data systems that back the supply chain platform the military branch uses to support its aerial combat missions. The company said Tuesday it will work with NTT Data, PracTrans and TSRI to make enhancements to the Air Force Integrated Logistics System-Supply, which delivers mission-related equipment for the Air National […] More
Lockheed Martin has completed development and integration work on the Space-Based Infrared System‘s Increment 2 ground station and will move forward to certification tests for the U.S. Air Force space program. The company said Monday Increment 2 will command the combined infrared surveillance operations of the Defense Support Program, SBIRS geosynchronous orbit satellites and highly elliptical orbit payloads. “The transition […] More
LinQuest has secured a five-year, $42 million task order to provide consulting, systems engineering, intelligence gathering and technical acquisition services for the space situational awareness and advanced systems units of the U.S. Air Force’s Space Superiority Systems Directorate. The company will also perform baseline management, improvement planning, testing and assessment work for the military branch […] More
Northrop Grumman will perform independent testing and evaluation of software and hardware for Minuteman III nuclear safety under a $99.1 million contract from the U.S. Air Force. The Defense Department said Thursday the contract covers nuclear safety cross-check analysis, performance analysis, technical evaluation and independent validation and verification. The tests will aim to ensure that the software […] More
NASA will seek to build on its materials science research efforts with a flight of the Materials Exposure and Technology Innovation in Space experiment on a Boeing-built X-37B spacecraft owned by the U.S. Air Force. The space agency said Wednesday the experiment will expose 100 quarter-size materials samples, including polymers and composites, to the space environment at the International Space Station for […] More
