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Centra Technology has won a potential $61.8 million contract from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency to assess the survivability of U.S. military assets. The Defense Department said Friday the company will evaluate U.S. and allied national/theater mission systems, networks, architectures, infrastructures and assets from DTRA’s headquarters at Fort Belvoir in Virginia through Aug. 11, 2022. The Balanced Survivability […] More

Australia’s defense department accepted its first Hobart-class air warfare destroyer equipped with the Lockheed Martin-built Aegis combat system during a ceremony held Friday in Adelaide. Australia has become the sixth allied country to receive a destroyer ship with the Aegis system, Lockheed said Friday. Vince Di Pietro, CEO of Lockheed’s Australian arm, said the company […] More

Andrew Rodgers, program manager for light tactical vehicles at PEO Land Systems Marine Corps, said the U.S. Marine Corps plans to increase the number of joint light tactical vehicles it intends to buy from 5,500 to 9,092 units, National Defense Magazine reported Thursday. Rodgers told reporters Wednesday at Marine Corps Base Quantico in Virginia that the […] More

Rockwell Collins has delivered the 770th global positioning system receiver built for the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center as part of a contract awarded in 2012. The company said Thursday that the Military-Code GPS receivers were ordered under the Military GPS User Equipment program which works to boost GPS capacities for the military in […] More

An Earth observation platform developed by a Teledyne Technologies subsidiary has been installed on the International Space Station to host imaging, technology demonstration and space qualification payloads. The Multi-User System for Earth Sensing platform from Teledyne Brown Engineering launched with SpaceX‘s Falcon 9 rocket in early June and has completed an initial operational assessment at the space station, Teledyne said Tuesday. MUSES, which orbits approximately 250 miles […] More

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency wants information on current products and services that can help increase the detection rate for weapons of mass destruction via networked sensors. DARPA said in a FedBizOpps notice published Wednesday it aims to explore new technologies to help defend metropolitan- and city-sized environments from radiological and nuclear-based threats under the SIGMA program. The program looks […] More

Orbital ATK has worked with NASA and Lockheed Martin to test-fire a motor technology for the Orion spacecraft’s launch abort system. The Qualification Motor-1 test was conducted at Orbital ATK’s facility in Promontory, Utah, and evaluated if the motor could activate within milliseconds and operate as designed under high temperatures, Orbital ATK said Thursday. Lockheed awarded Orbital ATK a $98 million subcontract […] More

Gryphon Technologies has won a potential seven-year, $57.7 million contract from the Missile Defense Agency to support integration work on the Sea-Based X-Band Radar mission. The Defense Department said Thursday that Gryphon will provide communication operations and support services to MDA’s SBX strategic mission under the cost-plus-incentive-fee contract. SBX Radar is built as part of the country’s Ballistic Missile Defense System and designed to help […] More

Rick Weiss, a spokesperson for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, has said Cape Canaveral in Florida will serve as the site for flight tests and launch operations for a hypersonic aircraft to be developed under DARPA’s Experimental Spaceplane program, Spaceflight Now reported Tuesday. DARPA partnered with Boeing in May to build an unmanned reusable spaceplane – […] More

A team composed of Boeing subsidiaries Tapestry Solutions and Jeppesen has secured a potential five-year, $28 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to provide  executive airlift flight dispatch services to the Air Mobility Command. Tapestry said Wednesday the team will help AMC transport very important persons such as the U.S. president, vice president, first lady, cabinet leaders, Congress members, senior military leaders […] More