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Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ Ingalls Shipbuilding division has begun to fabricate the first guided missile destroyer that will employ the U.S. Navy‘s Flight III design upgrade. The company said Tuesday it cut the first 100 tons of steel needed to construct the future Arleigh Burke-class Jack H. Lucas (DDG 125) ship. HII will equip DDG 125 with an Advanced Missile Defense […] More

DXC Technology has launched a platform as a service designed to help organizations speed up the development and deployment of applications across private, public and hybrid environments. The DXC Managed Container PaaS powered by Red Hat OpenShift works to help developers build, manage and field containerized apps through a single platform and can be integrated […] More

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration opened a second round of request for proposals for commercial satellite data to help enhance weather forecast models, SpaceNews reported Monday. The second round of solicitation for NOAA’s Commercial Weather Data Pilot program seeks companies that can provide a minimum of two periods of global positioning system radio occultation data […] More

Orbital ATK produced at its Beltsville, Md.-based facility the heat pipes for a Lockheed Martin-built spacecraft that took off Saturday aboard United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V rocket in support of NASA’s Mars mission. Orbital ATK said Monday that it also produced an ultraflex solar array and diaphragm tanks for the Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and […] More

The U.S. Navy has accepted delivery of a Northrop Grumman-built multispectral test platform designed to prepare the service branch’s F-35 aircraft for complex missions in electromagnetic spectrum environments. Northrop said Tuesday it shipped the Combat Electromagnetic Environment Simulator, Signal Measurement System and the Synchronizer Controller System to the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division in Point Mogu, Calif. CEESIM is designed to […] More

Lockheed Martin has resumed deliveries of F-35 fighter jets to the Defense Department after both parties addressed differences over aircraft repair costs, Reuters reported Tuesday. The Pentagon’s F-35 joint program office told Reuters that DoD stopped accepting F-35s in late March due to a disagreement on who should be financially responsible for a production quality issue that was […] More

Science Applications International Corp. brought together multiple veteran-owned companies at a networking session in an effort to help small businesses identify potential teaming opportunities with the Reston, Va.-based government technology services contractor. Representatives from more than 60 small businesses attended the event and pitched various offerings for the public sector, SAIC said Friday. “SAIC’s partnership with the […] More

SpaceX‘s Dragon capsule splashed down into the Pacific Ocean on Saturday, carrying more than 4,000 pounds’ worth of payload from the International Space Station. The company said Saturday Dragon’s return from ISS marked the completion of its 14th cargo resupply mission. The spacecraft embarked on the mission–its second trip to the space station–aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape […] More

A Lockheed Martin-built spacecraft for NASA‘s Mars mission lifted off Saturday aboard United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport lander is scheduled to reach Mars on Nov. 26 and perform scientific investigations through Nov. 24, 2020, NASA said Saturday. The […] More

Mike Petters, president and CEO of Huntington Ingalls Industries, has said the company had booked contracts for approximately 25 combat ships at the end of the first quarter of fiscal 2018, the National Interest reported Saturday. “By the end of 2020, if all goes as planned, we will see a significant amount of contracting activity […] More