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Lockheed Martin has issued a request for information as it considers whether to recompete the F-35 aircraft’s communications, navigation and identification equipment and electronic warfare platform in order to reduce the systems’ lifecycle costs, Defense News reported July 10. “We’re evaluating right now the RFI responses and determining if it’s a good time to go do […] More

Boeing and the U.S. Air Force have completed all flight tests required for the company to deliver the first KC-46 tanker aircraft to the service branch in October. The aircraft’s military type and receiver certification tests with the KC-135, F-16 and C-17 aircraft platforms concluded last week, Boeing said Friday. KC-46 receiver testing activity kicked off in […] More

The U.S. Navy has tested an updated version of a surface-to-air missile system Raytheon developed under NATO’s Seasparrow program. Raytheon said Sunday its Block 2 Evolved Seasparrow Missile worked to neutralize an aerial target after the service branch launched the weapon from a self-defense test ship during the guided flight test that occurred off the coast of southern California. The […] More

Executives of Comprehensive Health Services met with a company-formed advisory panel last month to discuss Defense Department business opportunities, partnerships, online presence and portfolio expansion efforts. The DoD Advisory Board Meeting took place June 28 at CHS’ headquarters in Cape Canaveral, Fla., and featured a discussion on current and future bids, potential customers and services and recent internal […] More

Northrop Grumman exhibited the MQ-8C Fire Scout unmanned helicopter with anti-submarine warfare equipment at the Royal International Air Tattoo in Fairford, U.K., Flightglobal reported Monday. The aircraft featured a sonobuoy mission pod developed by U.K.-based firm Ultra Electronics. The event comes in a week after the helicopter’s completion of operational testing on the USS Coronado. […] More

Leidos has received a potential five-year, $27 million contract to help the U.S. Army  dispose of munitions and hazardous, toxic and radioactive waste materials. The Army Corps of Engineers received 14 bids for the firm-fixed-price contract and will determine funds and work locations for each individual order under the project slated for completion by July 10, 2023, the Defense […] More

Five companies have won separate 12-month other transaction agreements to develop automatic rifle prototypes for the U.S. Army. The OTAs announced Thursday in a FedBizOpps notice will cover the development and production of a system demonstrator representative of level 6 technology and manufacturing readiness under the Next Generation Squad Automatic Rifle program. The Army seeks an NGSAR […] More

Lockheed Martin‘s Skunk Works business unit and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency conducted flight tests that aimed to demonstrate integrated operation between air, space, land, sea and cyber platforms in austere environments. The company said Friday the system of systems-based demonstrations took place in China Lake, Calif., and consisted of C-12 and flight test […] More

A General Atomics business unit has received a contract of an undisclosed value to update a portable cryofracture system prototype for future installation at Crane Army Ammunition Activity in Crane, Ind. General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems will also conduct design and procurement efforts to integrate the system with a rotary kiln incinerator under the contract from Army Armament Research, Development and Engineering […] More

Federal contract obligations reached $512 billion in fiscal 2017, hitting the highest level since agencies spent $522 billion in fiscal 2012, Bloomberg Government reported Thursday. The 2018 BGOV200 report showed that contract obligations received by the top 200 government contractors in fiscal 2017 accounted for 64 percent, or approximately $327 billion, of the total contract spending […] More