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The U.S. Air Force has agreed to share a runway at North Dakota-based Grand Forks Air Force Base with Northrop Grumman and General Atomics for the service branch and companies to test unmanned aerial vehicles. Sen. John Hoeven’s office (R-N.D.) said Wednesday the service branch signed a joint use agreement with Grand Sky Business and Technology Park to allow Northrop […] More

A unit of the U.S. Marine Corps has expanded unmanned aircraft system flight operations over airspace that regularly accommodates military and commercial air traffic. During the flight, Marine Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Squadron 2 integrated RQ-21A Blackjack operations with manned aircraft in the Class D airspace at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, the Marine Corps said March […] More

General Dynamics has been awarded a $644.3 million contract modification to build an additional Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer for the U.S. Navy. Fred Harris, president of General Dynamics unit Bath Iron Works, said Thursday  the company will use the money for the planning and construction of DDG 124. The modification comes under a potential five-ship, $3.4 billion contract that the company won […] More

A new report by IHS says India has posted a 13.1 percent rise in its military budget for 2016 to 2017 due to the launch of the One Rank, One Pension program and salary increases to service personnel. The increase in India’s defense budget has made it the world’s top four defense spender, IHS said Wednesday. “Growth in […] More

The U.S. Navy has awarded Huntington Ingalls Industries a $618 million contract modification for work on DDG 123, the fourth Arleigh Burke-class that the company will build under a five-ship contract it won in June 2013. HII said Wednesday its received about $55 million in funds from the Navy prior to the award of the modification that will extend the […] More

A joint venture of Lockheed Martin, Serco Group and Jacobs Engineering Group has received an updated contract to manage operations of the U.K. defense ministry’s atomic weapons establishment after a completed a review of the program. AWE Management Ltd. will operate the AWE sites built to develop, maintain and produce warheads in support of the U.K. government’s nuclear […] More

Tom Bussing, Raytheon’s head of advanced missile systems, has said the company is looking at the additive manufacturing process method for its plan to increase the size of weapon systems, Breaking Defense reported Wednesday. Bussing told several defense journalists in a briefing the company already invested in a machine that is designed to build “big structures,” Sydney Freedberg […] More

General Dynamics and Huntington Ingalls Industries have received additional  funds from the U.S. Navy to help build two more Arleigh Burke-class missile guided destroyers, USNI News reported Wednesday. Megan Eckstein writes the obligated funds are for the seventh and eighth DDG 51 ships under two separate contracts the military service awarded to General Dynamics unit Bath Iron Works and HII division Ingalls Shipbuilding in […] More

Interoperable communications systems provider Mutualink has named PMC Associates as a distribution partner for New Jersey in an interoperability and multimedia collaboration for public safety efforts. Mutualink said Wednesday its technology is used for the state government-funded public safety network JerseyNet, under which PMC serves as a prime contractor. PMC offers wireless two-way communications integration and radio systems for […] More

Recon Instruments has teamed up with Mutualink to introduce a wearable device designed to allow users to communicate with other first responders and law enforcement personnel during emergencies. Recon Jet is an eyewear with a heads-up display that works to capture and transmit videos, GPS location and other data through a network, Intel‘s Christopher Croteau wrote in […] More