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Raytheon has secured a potential $36.7 million contract option from the U.S. Navy for design agent and engineering services for the military branch’s ship self-defense weapon modernization initiative. The Defense Department said Monday Raytheon’s missile systems business will support the Navy’s efforts to update the Rolling Airframe Missile MK-31 guided missile weapon system. The company will provide design, systems, software […] More

Lockheed Martin plans to unveil a $9.8 million research laboratory in Melbourne, Australia, to focus on the development of software platforms that will work to direct attacks against hostile targets, The Age reported Monday. Daniel Flitton writes the company will open the research center by late 2016 and expects the facility to advance technology development […] More

Sierra Nevada Corp. has completed updates and initial hardware tests on the Dream Chaser flight test vehicle as part of the company’s Commercial Resupply Services 2 contract with NASA. The company said Thursday it will ship the test vehicle to NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center to undergo a second phase of flight tests that will involve tow-tests, pre-flight ground evaluations and free-flight tests in coordination […] More