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  • Saudi Crown Prince Tours Lockheed’s Sunnyvale, Calif. Facility; Marillyn Hewson Comments
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    Saudi Crown Prince Tours Lockheed’s Sunnyvale, Calif. Facility; Marillyn Hewson Comments

    Lockheed Martin CEO Marillyn Hewson hosted Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman during his visit Thursday at a company site in Sunnyvale, California. MBS toured the facility where Lockheed currently builds a pair of communications satellites for operator Arabsat and the King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology, the company said Friday. “He also met the Saudi […] More

  • Boeing’s Leanne Caret to Receive Navy League’s Nimitz Award
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    Boeing’s Leanne Caret to Receive Navy League’s Nimitz Award

    Leanne Caret, president and CEO of Boeing’s defense, space and security business, will receive the Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz Award from the Navy League of the United States in recognition of her contribution to the maritime sector and efforts to build up national security, American Security Today reported Thursday. Jack London, executive chairman and […] More

  • Latitia McCane Named Education Director at Huntington Ingalls’ Apprentice School
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    Latitia McCane Named Education Director at Huntington Ingalls’ Apprentice School

    Latitia McCane, formerly dean of instructional services at Bishop State Community College in Alabama, has been appointed director of education at the Apprentice School managed by Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ Newport News Shipbuilding division. She will oversee the Apprentice School’s craft training, academic delivery, student services, accreditation and recruitment functions in her new position, Huntington Ingalls said said Friday. “Latitia comes to […] More

  • Former CIA Deputy Director Avril Haines Named Johns Hopkins APL Senior Fellow
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    Former CIA Deputy Director Avril Haines Named Johns Hopkins APL Senior Fellow

    Avril Haines, who served as deputy director at the CIA and deputy national security adviser during the Obama administration, has been named a senior fellow at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. She will join other national security and space experts who collaborate with the laboratory’s technical professionals to advise U.S. military leaders and senior government officials on […] More

  • NASA Taps Aerospace to Study Earth’s Atmospheric, Ionospheric Changes
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    NASA Taps Aerospace to Study Earth’s Atmospheric, Ionospheric Changes

    Aerospace has received a $2.85 million NASA grant to study the gradual changes occurring in the atmosphere and ionosphere of earth. The research effort will make use of six CubeSat units that will compose the Daily Atmospheric Ionospheric Limb Imager, the company said Thursday. DAILI will be built to provide atmospheric data needed for orbital calculations and studies on radio […] More

  • Drive System Design Unveils New Facility to Aid Defense Vehicle Development
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    Drive System Design Unveils New Facility to Aid Defense Vehicle Development

    Drive System Design‘s North American subsidiary has established a new facility in Michigan to support the design, test and development of defense vehicles. The facility is meant to help the defense industry build vehicles that consume less fuel without compromising lethality or passenger safety, the engineering consultancy said Friday. “Improving fuel consumption has a direct impact on the safety […] More

  • MBDA Tests Compact Missile Using Lockheed Standalone Launcher
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    MBDA Tests Compact Missile Using Lockheed Standalone Launcher

    Lockheed Martin and MBDA have wrapped up qualification tests of the latter’s Common Anti-air Modular Missile from Lockheed’s Extensible Launching System three-cell standalone launcher. MBDA said Thursday the ExLS launcher works to integrate new missiles and munitions into naval surface warships that are equipped with Lockheed’s Mk 41 vertical launching system. The 3-cell ExLS is designed to fit into Mk […] More

  • General Atomics’ Avenger RPA Conducts Nearly 24-Hour Continuous Flight
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    General Atomics’ Avenger RPA Conducts Nearly 24-Hour Continuous Flight

    General Atomics‘ aeronautical systems business has flown an extended-range version of its Avenger remotely piloted aircraft for 23.4 hours continuously. The Avenger Extended Range RPA set a new endurance record and surpassed a flight test goal of 20 hours, General Atomics said Thursday. During the test, the Avenger ER operated in an intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance configuration while performing a simulated […] More

  • Lockheed to Implement SAS Analytics Tech in Aircraft Programs
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    Lockheed to Implement SAS Analytics Tech in Aircraft Programs

    Lockheed Martin has partnered with SAS to integrate analytics technology into the Bethesda, Maryland-based company’s F-35, C-130J and LM-100J aircraft programs. Lockheed said Thursday it will implement SAS’ Viya-powered products to increase cross-platform collaboration among aircraft sustainment professionals and help them obtain insights with the use of artificial intelligence tools. Bruce Litchfield, vice president of sustainment operations at […] More

  • Report: DARPA Plans ViaSat Radio Purchase for Tactical Undersea Network Architectures Program
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    Report: DARPA Plans ViaSat Radio Purchase for Tactical Undersea Network Architectures Program

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency announced Wednesday plans for a sole-source purchase of a handheld Link 16 radio terminal from ViaSat in support of the agency’s Tactical Undersea Network Architectures program, Military & Aerospace Electronics reported Thursday. ViaSat’s Battlefield Awareness & Targeting System-Dismounted AN/PRC-161 will be part of the second phase of DARPA’s TUNA program […] More

  • National Strategic Research Institute Lands $92M R&D Contract With Air Force
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    National Strategic Research Institute Lands $92M R&D Contract With Air Force

    The University of Nebraska’s National Strategic Research Institute has received a $92 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to provide research, development and engineering services. NSRI will also conduct mission-related research efforts such as test, evaluation and systems analysis of U. S. Strategic Command-related topics, the Defense Department said Thursday. The institute will perform work at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln […] More

  • EIS Vendors Test Business Support Systems
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    EIS Vendors Test Business Support Systems

    A new General Services Administration report says vendors that won spots on a potential 15-year, $50 billion contract for telecommunications services have made progress in testing back-office systems they will implement in support of that contract, FCW reported Thursday. GSA released an update Wednesday on each company’s effort to perform Business Support Systems tests as […] More