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Delegates from eight foreign countries observed a recent U.S. Army-led demonstration of Raytheon‘s updated air and missile defense system. A team of Army soldiers engaged two tactical ballistic missile targets using Global Patriot interceptors with the Post Deployment Build 8 configuration during a live-fire test,  Raytheon said Monday. Global Patriot uses radar and command-and-control technologies to guide multiple interceptor […] More

The U.S. Army and Lockheed Martin have demonstrated the capacity of two company-built PAC-3 Cost Reduction Initiative interceptors to counter tactical ballistic missile targets. Lockheed said Tuesday its PAC-3 CRI interceptors engaged two ballistic missiles during an Army-led flight test that supported the service branch’s Field Surveillance Program. FSP aims to ensure the readiness and reliability of fielded missile defense systems. Some Army officials […] More

Devine Consulting, EOIR Technologies and ThermoAnalytics have won spots on a potential $48.5 million contract to support the U.S. Navy‘s Signature Technology Office. All three companies are eligible to vie for scientific, engineering, programmatic, research and development support task orders under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, the Defense Department said Tuesday. The Navy intends to obligate $2,500 in fiscal year 2018 working […] More

Charles River Analytics has secured a two-year, $2 million contract to update the features of a game-based maintenance training environment for the U.S. Air Force. The company said Wednesday its Maintenance Training based on an Adaptive Game-Based Environment using a Pedagogic Interpretation Engine works to simulate the avionics maintenance functions and helps train students to maintain F-15E aircraft. Users of the system […] More

NASA is exploring ways to create more opportunities for commercial entities to use the International Space Station, Space.com reported Monday. Robyn Gatens, ISS deputy director at NASA, said during an agency presentation that NASA has begun to develop policy and study the required legal or programmatic changes to expand the commercial use of ISS. The space […] More

Lockheed Martin CEO Marillyn Hewson has said the company continues to work with industry partners to lower the F-35A aircraft’s price to $80 million per fighter jet by 2020. Hewson said in her speech delivered Monday at Lockheed’s media day event in Arlington, Virginia, that the company delivered 66 F-35s in 2017 and is on schedule to deliver at least 90 […] More

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will conduct a Proposers Day through webcast on March 20 to discuss a program that aims to give first responders a longer window of opportunity to treat severely injured service members. DARPA said Thursday the Biostasis program will use molecular biology to slow down biochemical reactions and delay system collapse following a traumatic injury […] More

A U.S. Air Force team has obtained an award from the Office of the Secretary of Defense for its management of a Raytheon-led contract to maintain, sustain and repair the ground-based Cobra Dane radar system. The Air Force said Friday its Cobra Dane System Sustainment Team received the 2017 Secretary of Defense Performance Based Logistics Award at […] More

A BAE Systems subsidiary has landed a contract worth potentially $775 million to modernize the Australian military’s over-the-horizon radar platform, Defence Connect reported Monday. The report said BAE’s Australian subsidiary will aim to extend the operational life of the Jindalee Operational Radar Network beyond 2042 as part of the 10-year Project Air 2025 Phase 6 mission. JORN was built in the […] More

Israel’s defense forces plans to recommend the Boeing-built Chinook offering as a potential replacement to the Israeli air force’s current heavy-lift helicopter platform, The Jerusalem Post reported Monday. IAF has maintained a fleet of Sikorsky-built Yasur helicopters since 1969 to support military personnel transport efforts. JPost identified Boeing’s CH-47 and Sikorsky’s CH-53K as the competing platforms to modernize IAF’s […] More