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Lockheed Martin has started the construction of a training center focused on the C-130J Super Hercules airlifter and LM-100J commercial freighter at a site in Marietta, Georgia. The Hercules Training Center will work to train future air mobility pilots and crews for the C-130J and LM-100J and feature classroom space, training devices and a reconfigurable C-130J/LM-100J full-mission simulator, Lockheed said Tuesday. Sandy Samuel, […] More

Orbital ATK‘s Cygnus spacecraft re-entered Earth’s atmosphere Wednesday at 9:30 a.m. Eastern Time after it performed three in-orbit scientific missions and delivered approximately 7,900 pounds of scientific experiments and crew supplies to the International Space Station. The atmospheric re-entry of the space vehicle, also known as S.S. Rick Husband, loaded with 4,087 pounds of items for disposal marks the company’s […] More

Smiths Detection has received a $40.9 million follow-on task order from the Department of Homeland Security to supply a handheld radiation detection and identification system to DHS’ Domestic Nuclear Detection Office. The company said Tuesday it will provide its RadSeeker technology for department  personnel to detect, locate and identify the source of radiological materials. “RadSeeker technology was developed in cooperation with […] More

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will conduct a workshop in Southbridge, Massachusetts, on June 29 to discuss a program that seeks to develop medicines designed to retain potency for long periods of time amid exposure to extreme conditions on the battlefield. DARPA said Tuesday researchers under the Fold F(x) program aim to design biotherapeutics and […] More

Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory has developed a sensor technology under an independent research-and-development project that aims to help  submariners gather, examine and access data on their surroundings. Johns Hopkins APL said Monday the Pelagos environmental data collection system works to measure air and sea parameters as well as employs customized algorithms designed to analyze and disseminate information to tactical users. […] More

The U.S. Navy has introduced a Raytheon-built network-enabled weapon to its fleet of air wings deployed worldwide. The Joint Standoff Weapon C-1 was added to the fleet after the weapon recently completed operational testing against land and sea targets, the Navy said Monday. JSOW C-1 achieved initial operational capability in early June. “As our mission’s […] More

Aerojet Rocketdyne has completed another milestone in the company’s AR1 rocket engine development program following completion of preburner tests at NASA’s Stennis Space Center. The tests aimed to verify design parameters of the preburner injector built for Aerojet Rocketdyne’s new engine technology, the company said Friday. Aerojet Rocketdyne announced its milestone plan for AR1 engine in 2014 […] More

California-based biotechnology firm Lpath has secured a two-year, $1.45 million grant from the Defense Department to examine the use of a monoclonal antibody drug as a potential treatment for neuropathic pain associated with traumatic brain injury. Lpath said Monday it will conduct preclinical studies to assess the effect of the company’s experimental drug Lpathomab on pain that follows neurotrauma as the company seeks to validate the findings […] More

Charles River Analytics has partnered with Systems and Technology Research and Raytheon in an effort to help the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency  produce decision support tools for military command-and-control operators to manage complex missions. STR and Charles River will collaborate to design and build a distributed planning and assessment suite under DARPA’s Resilient Synchronized Planning and Assessment for the Contested Environment program as part […] More

A team comprised of Fluor, Meridiam Infrastructure Purple Line and Star America Purple Line has achieved financial close on Maryland’s $5.6 billion Purple Line Light Rail project. The Fluor-led Purple Line Transit Partners will finance, design, build, operate and maintain the project for Maryland’s transportation department and transit administration through a 36-year period, Fluor said Monday. The company added the team received financing […] More

Mellanox Technologies and the Energy Department‘s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have entered into a partnership agreement to design and architect exascale computing technologies. PNNL and Mellanox seek to explore advanced functions of the company’s Interconnect platform as well as develop a new in-network computing architecture,  Mellanox said Monday. The partnership will also support efforts of Mellanox and DOE’s Center for Advance Technology Evaluation to […] More