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Orbital ATK plans to perform two certification flights for its Next Generation Launcher rocket in early 2021 from a launch site at Kennedy Space Center in Florida with plans to conduct operational flights later that year, NASASpaceflight.com reported Friday. The company has completed the initial two phases of the rocket propulsion system development effort and now expects […] More

The Polish government has signed a letter of offer and acceptance agreement to procure an Integrated Air and Missile Defense Battle Command System developed by Northrop Grumman. Northrop said Wednesday the U.S. government can now start the contracting process with the company to produce and deliver IBCS to Poland’s military. IBCS is designed to integrate sensors and interceptors that offer wide […] More

Orbital ATK will expand its production facility in Mesa, Ariz., in an effort to meet the demand for the company’s Bushmaster family of medium-caliber cannons. The expansion project will add 36,000 square feet of space to Orbital ATK’s Mesa operations and will combine warehouse and manufacturing operations into one location, the aerospace and defense contractor […] More

NASA will consider the procurement of more than one power and propulsion module for a lunar outpost that will support future deep space missions, Space News reported Friday. Bill Gerstenmaier, NASA associate administrator for human exploration and operations, said the agency might award more than one contact for the development and in-space testing of the Power and […] More

General Atomics‘ aeronautical systems business has received an $80.9 million U.S. Air Force contract to design, build, integrate and test components in support of the U.K.’s MQ-9B Protector program. The service branch will obligate $33.5 million in FMS funds at the time of award,  the  Defense Department said Friday. The U.K. said it will initially buy 16 units of the Protector […] More

Lockheed Martin has rolled out the first F-35A aircraft built for the South Korean air force at a ceremony held Wednesday at the company’s production facility in Fort Worth, Texas. South Korean fighter pilots and maintainers will train at Luke Air Force Base in Arizona prior to the aircraft’s flight to its operational base in Cheongju sometime in […] More

The U.S. Army plans to have a contract in place by August for mission equipment packages to convert Stryker armored vehicles into short-range air defense systems and expects to have prototypes by the spring of 2019, Defense News reported Wednesday. Col. Chuck Worshim, project manager for cruise missile defense systems at the Army’s program executive […] More

The U.S. Navy launched two updated Lockheed Martin-built missiles from an Ohio-class submarine during a test held Monday off the coast of southern California. Lockheed said Wednesday the test aimed to demonstrate the readiness of USS Nebraska‘s crew and the Trident II D5 Life Extension missile configuration through the  Demonstration and Shakedown Operation-28 test. “Instead of warheads, the missiles carried […] More

The U.S. Customs and Border Protection seeks information on vendors that can provide financial system support services. CBP said Tuesday in a FedBizOpps notice that it plans to award a blanket purchase agreement with a one-year base ordering period and four option years for financial systems business process and business intelligence services. The BPA will cover operations […] More

Boeing‘s Insitu subsidiary has received a $47 million delivery order from the U.S. Navy to provide eight ScanEagle unmanned aircraft systems, spares and support equipment to Afghanistan as part of a Building Partnership Capacity mission. Insitu will also deploy one logistician field service representative, 16 technical support operators and two site surveys and site activation teams to the foreign country, […] More