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An L3 Technologies subsidiary won more than $250 million in contracts during the second half of 2017 to provide electro-optical/infrared products, in-service support equipment and services to military and law enforcement customers. The company said Thursday L3 Wescam will supply a range of MX Series imaging and targeting systems designed for airborne, surveillance and reconnaissance missions. Wescam has sold ISR technology platforms to customers […] More

NASA and Aerojet Rocketdyne have tested the fourth and last engine controller for the first crewed mission of the Orion spacecraft and the Space Launch System rocket, called Exploration Mission-2. Aerojet Rocketdyne said Thursday its RS-25 engine was test fired for 365 seconds to qualify the engine controller, which works to facilitate communications between the engine and SLS as […] More

DynCorp International has received a one-year, $40.4 million contract option to help the U.S. Navy maintain its EA-18G, E-2C, F/A-18, F-16A/B and MH-60S planes currently assigned to a facility in Fallon, Nevada. The company will also provide logistics services to the five aircraft platforms at the Naval Aviation Warfighting Development Center, the Defense Department said Thursday. Work under […] More

A Lockheed Martin business unit has received a one-year, $7.9 million delivery order to update the software product baseline of the Tomahawk Weapons Control Systems for the U.S. Navy and U.K. government. Lockheed Martin Rotary and Mission Systems will also help the service branch manage and sustain TTWCS software through the order awarded under a previously issued basic ordering […] More

The U.S. Navy has announced details on the upcoming commission ceremony of LCS-12, an Independence-class littoral combat ship to be named USS Omaha. The ceremony for the Austal USA-built ship will take place 1:00 p.m. EST, Saturday, at Broadway pier, San Diego, California, the Navy said Thursday. LCS-12 is the eleventh Independence variant of its ship type to join the Navy’s […] More

Elbit Systems‘ U.S. subsidiary has received approval from the Customs and Border Protection to implement an in-fill radar and tower system the company built to help CBP agents protect the country’s borders. CBP certified the system from Elbit Systems of America to support the agency’s air and marine border security operations in Texas, the company said Thursday. […] More

Lockheed Martin has begun construction work at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, Louisiana, on a spacecraft designed to transport astronauts to the moon as part of Exploration Mission-2. The Orion crew capsule will launch aboard the Space Launch System rocket as part of EM-2 mission that is expected to establish the framework for […] More

PowerSecure has received a potential $51.1 million contract modification to help the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers repair and restore Puerto Rico’s electric power grid. The company will perform work under the modified contract in San Juan, Puerto Rico through March 7, the Defense Department said Thursday. DoD noted the full obligated amount at the […] More

A General Dynamics business unit has tested in Texas a remote video surveillance platform designed to support border security operations. General Dynamics Information Technology partnered with Parsons’ government services business to help the Department of Homeland Security’s Customs and Border Protection field six Relocatable-Remote Video Surveillance Systems in McAllen and Laredo, Texas, the company said […] More

L3 Technologies has completed delivery of an HC-130J aircraft equipped with a Minotaur mission system suite to the U.S. Coast Guard as part of a potential five-year contract. The company said Wednesday its aerospace systems business installed and tested the government-furnished MSS+ on the aircraft in an effort to increase the service branch’s long-range surveillance capacity. An aircraft completion ceremony took […] More