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Lockheed Martin has shipped the first Army Tactical Missile System from a manufacturing facility in Camden, Arkansas, to the U.S. Army as part of a contract to produce ATACMS weapons for the service branch and a foreign military customer. Lockheed said Thursday the missile was built at the company’s Precision Fires Production Center of Excellence where the […] More

SpaceX completed Thursday a static fire test on Falcon 9 rocket’s Merlin 1D engines at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida in preparation for the Monday launch of the Dragon spacecraft as part of the company’s 12th commercial resupply mission to the International Space Station, Spaceflight Now reported Thursday. The spacecraft is scheduled to take off […] More

BAE Systems has submitted a proposal to construct nine anti-submarine warfare ships under Australia’s SEA 5000 Future Frigate program. The company said Thursday it proposed the Global Combat Ship-Australia for the program nearly a month after it started construction work on the first Type 26 Global Combat Ship designed to replace the U.K. navy’s Type 23 […] More

CAE has awarded Rockwell Collins a subcontract to provide a new visual display system for Pilatus PC-21 simulators in support of a French training program designed to train future fighter pilots and weapon systems officers in France. Rockwell Collins said Thursday it will build two Spectraview Visual Display Systems at a company facility in Salt Lake City, Utah, and […] More

AAR has received a potential five-year, $43.9 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to supply aviation spare parts to the Defense Logistics Agency. The company said Tuesday its OEM Aftermarket Solutions business will provide total supply chain management services intended to help DLA distribute, procure and manage its inventory of depot and field-level aviation spare parts. “The contract allows AAR […] More

A KBR subsdiary has received a $47.4 million contract modification to maintain, supply, transport and provide logistics support for the U.S. Army‘s Prepositioned Stocks-3 Charleston Afloat Program. KBRwyle will perform work under the modification in Goose Greek, South Carolina through Aug. 14, 2020, the Defense Department said Thursday . The Army Contracting Command obligated $45.6 million from the service branch’s […] More

The U.S. Navy has begun to solicit proposals for a contract to transport the damaged USS Fitzgerald guided-missile destroyer back to U.S., United Press International reported Wednesday. The service branch is currently investigating the collision of USS Fitzgerald with a Philippine-flagged container ship off the coast of Honshu, Japan, in June. The Navy posted a solicitation notice on […] More

Northrop Grumman‘s Astro Aerospace subsidiary has conducted a preliminary design review of L-band reflectors for two communications satellites that Airbus currently develops for Inmarsat. Astro Aerospace will work to mature the reflectors’ design before the Inmarsat-6 satellite program undergoes a critical design review later this year, Northrop said Wednesday. Inmarsat awarded Airbus’ defense and space business a […] More

Executives at Harris‘ space and intelligence systems unit have said the company aims to focus on the development of small satellites in a push to test electronics and other technology aboard larger spacecraft, Space News reported Wednesday. Sid Stewart, manager of the satellite solutions group, told Space News the company’s transition to small satellites from hosted […] More

Hughes Network Systems has selected Space Systems Loral to develop the former’s next-generation ultra high density satellite designed to expand the Hughes Ka-band capacity across the Americas region. The new Jupiter-powered EchoStar XXIV UHDS will help aid the business expansion of Hughes in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Brazil and other countries in South America, the […] More

Huntington Ingalls Industries has signed an agreement to sell its Avondale shipyard near New Orleans to an undisclosed buyer, The Maritime Executive reported Wednesday. HII Chief Financial Officer Chris Kastner said Wednesday during a conference call the company expects to wrap up the sale after the buyer completes a due diligence process. Northrop Grumman had operated Avondale until […] More

Raytheon‘s missile systems business has received a $32.3 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy to obtain long-lead materials needed to build Standard Missile-6 units. The Defense Department said Wednesday the modification will support requirements and  spares for fiscal 2017 SM-6 full-rate production. SM-6 is designed to perform anti-air warfare, anti-surface warfare and sea-based terminal ballistic […] More