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An SCRA-managed naval center of excellence has partnered with General Dynamics and Huntington Ingalls Industries to explore new technologies to help improve manufacturing processes at U.S. shipyards. The Center for Naval Shipbuilding Technology in South Carolina and General Dynamics’s Electric Boat subsidiary are studying the potential of new measurement tools to aid submarine construction, SCRA said […] More

A Lockheed Martin subsidiary has chosen North Atlantic Industries to produce flight control equipment for a vertical-takeoff-and-landing unmanned aerial system. NAI will manufacture a navigation technology for the Aerial Reconfigurable Embedded System that is being built by Lockheed’s Skunk Works arm for a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency program, NAI said Thursday. “ARES seeks to demonstrate several key […] More

A Raytheon-developed missile has engaged a target in the U.S. Navy’s long-distance surface-to-air strike demonstration in June. The destroyer USS John Paul Jones launched a set of Standard Missile-6 interceptors to hit over-the-horizon missile targets in a series of three tests, Raytheon said Thursday. SM-6 also destroyed a target moving at supersonic speeds in a […] More

IBM has unveiled a five-year, $3 billion investment to develop nanoscale chip technology as the company aims to improve the performance of cloud computing and big data systems. A team of IBM researchers will aim to scale silicon chips to 7 nanometers or below as well as research carbon nanoelectronics, silicon photonics and other semiconductor materials that […] More

The Air Force National Capital Region is undertaking the second phase in the four-phase deployment of the AFNCR Shared Computing Environment with support from prime contractor Lockheed Martin, GCN reported Tuesday. William Jackson writes the SCE program, which provided AFNCR with a unified IT infrastructure and shared enterprise services, is focused on load balancing during the second deployment phase. […] More