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  • Raytheon Secures Navy Contract Option for LPD 17 Shipboard Electronic System Engineering Services
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    Raytheon Secures Navy Contract Option for LPD 17 Shipboard Electronic System Engineering Services

    Raytheon has received a one-year, $34.3 million contract option from the U.S. Navy to provide life cycle engineering and support services for the integrated shipboard electronic systems on San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ships. The Defense Department said Friday the exercised option covers post-delivery planning, homeport technical support, integrated product data environment, data maintenance, equipment management, systems integration, software support and research […] More

  • DOE Announces Addition of AIChE’s RAPID Institute to Manufacturing USA Network
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    DOE Announces Addition of AIChE’s RAPID Institute to Manufacturing USA Network

    The Energy Department has announced that the Manufacturing USA has added the American Institute of Chemical Engineers’ manufacturing organization to its network of institutes. AIChE established the Rapid Advancement in Process Intensification Deployment manufacturing institute in partnership with the Georgia Institute of Technology and Savannah River National Laboratory, AIChE said Friday. AIChE’s RAPID institute has partnered with […] More

  • Northrop Gets $55M Contract Modification to Support USAF’s Airborne Comms Platform
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    Northrop Gets $55M Contract Modification to Support USAF’s Airborne Comms Platform

    Northrop Grumman‘s information systems business has secured a $55.3 million  contract modification to provide comprehensive support services for an airborne communications platform of the U.S. Air Force. The Defense Department said Friday the modification covers aircraft subsystems,  facilities, personnel and support equipment for the Battlefield Airborne Communications Node E-11A system. DoD noted that the Air Force Life Cycle […] More

  • Air Force Selects Orbital ATK-Built Rocket to Launch New NRO Satellite
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    Air Force Selects Orbital ATK-Built Rocket to Launch New NRO Satellite

    The U.S. Air Force has awarded Orbital ATK a potential $29.2 million contract to send a new satellite for the National Reconnaissance Office into space with the company’s Minotaur I launch vehicle. The Air Force said Thursday it expects the company to launch the NRO Launch-111 payload within a 24-month period. The firm-fixed-price contract represents the first awarded under […] More

  • NASA, Orbital ATK to Launch Weather-Monitoring Satellite System Monday
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    NASA, Orbital ATK to Launch Weather-Monitoring Satellite System Monday

    Orbital ATK is scheduled Monday to launch a Pegasus rocket aboard the company’s Stargazer L-1011 airplane to transport a NASA satellite system designed for weather research. NASA’s Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System will lift off Monday from Cape Canaveral, Florida at 8:24 a.m. Eastern time as part of the space agency’s effort to study tropical cyclones and help meteorologists predict the path of a […] More

  • Navy Plans Hawkeye Lots 7-11 Full-Rate Production Contract Award to Northrop
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    Navy Plans Hawkeye Lots 7-11 Full-Rate Production Contract Award to Northrop

    The U.S. Navy plans to award a sole-source contract to Northrop Grumman for the full-rate production of lots 7 to 11 E-2D Advanced Hawkeye aircraft. The fixed-price contract to be awarded by the Naval Air Systems Command covers 20 aircraft and contains a “variation in quantity” option that could bring the total number of planes to 40, […] More

  • Report: Canada Sets 5-Year Timeline for F-18 Aircraft Replacement Selection Process
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    Report: Canada Sets 5-Year Timeline for F-18 Aircraft Replacement Selection Process

    Canadian Defense Minister Harjit Sajjan has said it could take Canada five years to complete an open competition to replace the country’s fleet of CF-18 Hornets, The Hill Times reported Thursday. Sajjan told the publication the procurement process would begin once Canada issues its new defense policy in early 2017, according to the report by Tim Naumetz. […] More

  • DARPA Begins Phase I of Data Link Restoration Platform Devt Program
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    DARPA Begins Phase I of Data Link Restoration Platform Devt Program

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has commenced the first phase of a project that seeks to build a deployable undersea network that would serve as a means to restore disrupted data links, C4ISR & Networks reported Friday. Adam Stone writes the Tactical Undersea Network Architectures program drew various ideas from Harris, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, LGS Innovations and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. […] More

  • First F-35 Test Pilot Jon Beesley Revisits Lockheed
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    First F-35 Test Pilot Jon Beesley Revisits Lockheed

    Jon Beesley, the first pilot to fly the Lockheed Martin-built F-35 fighter jet, has revisited the aerospace company to celebrate the first F-35 test flight that occurred on Dec. 15, 2006, Star-Telegram reported Friday. Max Baker writes the retired pilot flew the F-35 up to nearly 15,000 feet and the inaugural test was cut short to 35 minutes […] More

  • CyrusOne Begins Construction of New Northern Virginia Data Center; Kevin Timmons Comments
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    CyrusOne Begins Construction of New Northern Virginia Data Center; Kevin Timmons Comments

    CyrusOne has kicked off the construction of a new data center in Northern Virginia during a ground-breaking ceremony at the 40-acre Kincora site the company purchased in early 2016. The future 654,000-square-foot Sterling V data center will have access to the fiber hub in Loudoun County and connect with other CyrusOne facilities across the U.S. through the […] More

  • Lockheed Inspects Cheyenne Resources for Potential Air Force ICBM Update Project
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    Lockheed Inspects Cheyenne Resources for Potential Air Force ICBM Update Project

    Lockheed Martin personnel have visited Cheyenne in Wyoming to assess available resources in the area as the company chases an estimated $60 billion missile system renovation project with the U.S. Air Force, Wyoming Tribune Eagle reported Tuesday. Matt Murphy writes the project will cover updates to launch facilities and missile silos at F.E. Warren Air […] More

  • Saab to Produce Torpedo Integration Systems for Swedish Navy Submarines
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    Saab to Produce Torpedo Integration Systems for Swedish Navy Submarines

    Saab has received a contract from Sweden’s defense material administration to develop and produce torpedo integration systems for A26 submarines. The company said Wednesday it will construct, manufacture and verify integration systems for two A26 submarines the agency ordered for the Swedish navy last year. Saab will also update current systems on Visby-class corvettes and Gotland-class submarines under the contract. “With […] More