Industry News

Raytheon‘s Standard Missile-6 has set a record for the U.S. Navy‘s longest range surface-to-air intercept after the missile engaged an over-the-horizon target. The company said Friday the SM-6 was deployed from the Navy’s USS Princeton cruiser that features an Aegis baseline 9 combat system. The missile also broke its own record in January after SM-6 surpassed its June 2014 milestone when […] More

FCI Federal has established a new headquarters in Ashburn, Virginia, in support of the company’s plans to expand across government agencies. The company said Friday its new office at Lakeview Center Plaza has triple the work space than its previous office. Scott Miller, FCi CEO and president, said the expanded headquarters serves to aid the company’s growth efforts in immigration pre-adjudication support services and […] More

Capstone has secured a prime contract to support a U.S. Army-run laboratory that conducts wargames and experiments through constructive and live experiment environments for the military branch. The company said Wednesday it aims to help the Army Combined Arms Support Command’s Sustainment Battle Lab to examine Doctrine, Organizations, Training, Leader Development, Materiel, Personnel and Facilities changes to […] More

The U.K. defense ministry has committed an estimated $1.7 billion in funds to support a BAE Systems-led effort to replace the British navy’s Vanguard-class submarines. BAE said Saturday the funds will cover initial manufacturing work on the first of four submarines under the Successor program as well as long lead item procurement and redevelopment of facilities and infrastructure at […] More

InDyne has received a $71.5 contract modification from the U.S. Air Force to continue the company’s infrastructure operations and maintenance services at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The Defense Department said Friday InDyne will continue to help the military branch manage the facilities, systems, equipment, utilities and infrastructure that support the 45th Space Wing and its mission […] More

The General Services Administration and Dun & Bradstreet have renegotiated their data collection contract to expand the use of federal government spending information. Kevin Youel Page, acting assistant commissioner of GSA’s Integrated Award Environment, wrote in a blog post posted Saturday that rights to proprietary D&B data stored in IAE systems have been expanded in efforts to help users conduct historical […] More

Airbus‘ defense and space business unit has signed an initial payload agreement with Neumann Space to develop a future Bartolomeo platform for International Space Station. Airbus said Thursday the Bartolomeo platform will give private and institutional users access to the ISS on commercial terms with a payload mission service designed to support clients in areas such as Earth observation, technology […] More

The Connecticut General Assembly has approved a $220 million incentive package to keep the factory of Lockheed Martin’s Sikorsky subsidiary in the state and increase the helicopter business’ workforce to more than 8,000 by 2032, Connecticut Post reported Wednesday. Ken Dixon writes Sikorsky will build 200 CH-53K King Stallion helicopters at its Stratford, Connecticut-based manufacturing facility as […] More

Leonardo-Finmeccanica, Airbus and Dassault Aviation have received a contract to conduct a two-year definition study of a program that seeks to develop a medium-altitude, long-endurance remotely piloted aircraft system for European countries. Germany, France, Spain and Italy participated in the launch of the contract for the European MALE RPAS program through a meeting led by the […] More

SAE Industry Technologies Consortia has established a nonprofit consortium of commercial automotive manufacturers and suppliers that will work to help the U.S. Army adopt new automotive technologies. SAE ITC said Tuesday the Defense Automotive Technologies Consortium will address technology areas such as automotive cybersecurity, vehicle safety and lightweighting, autonomous and connected vehicles, intelligent systems and advanced energy storage technologies. “Headquartered […] More

Lockheed Martin‘s Australia-based subsidiary has been awarded a contract install combat systems on 12 future ­submarines for that country’s navy, The Australian newspaper reported Friday. Brendan Nicholson writes Lockheed will integrate the combat systems in partnership with Australia’s defense department and France-based company DCNS. DCNS was chosen for the potential $38.7 billion contract in April to help design 12 submarines that will replace Australia’s fleet of Collins-class […] More

The U.S. Navy will sponsor a two-day conference that will kick off Oct. 12 in Bloomington, Indiana, in an effort to promote technology research collaboration among defense, industry and academic institutions. The Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division, will host the “Innovation Crossover: The Shape of Things to Come” conference and organizers expect the event […] More