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Rolls-Royce expects to start altitude testing in February 2025 for the F130 engine after completing its critical design review, or CDR, as the new platform of the U.S. Air Force’s upgraded Boeing B-52J Stratofortress bomber. The CDR completion advances the engine program toward final development and production, Rolls-Royce said Friday. Candice Bineyard, Rolls-Royce director of early life […] More

The U.S. Army has conducted a limited user test of Lockheed Martin‘s Precision Strike Missile, or PrSM, at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. Lockheed Martin said the demonstrations were performed entirely by soldiers.  Soldier-Led Demo During the flight test, soldiers from the 1-14 Field Artillery Regiment launched two PrSM Increment 1 missiles from […] More

HII, a global engineering and defense technologies company, has christened the Virginia-class attack submarine USS Arkansas at its Newport News Shipbuilding division. The Newport News, Virginia-based company said Saturday the event honors the ship’s sponsors, the first six African American female students to attend Central High School, a previously all-white school in Little Rock, Arkansas, during […] More

Software company Palantir Technologies and federal defense contractor Booz Allen Hamilton have created a partnership to accelerate the development of defense solutions to support U.S. dominance on the battlefield.  According to a joint statement released by the two companies on Friday, their collaboration’s initial focus will be modernizing information infrastructure to improve U.S. forces’ interoperability […] More