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Lockheed Martin has opened its demonstration center in Ottawa, Canada to help industry and academia in the country collaborate on research-and-development efforts for different types of technologies. The IMPACT Center will feature naval systems as its core focus to fulfill Canada’s Surface Combatant program requirements and respond to international demands, Lockheed said Tuesday. Rosemary Chapdelaine, vice president and […] More

Global airplane maker and defense contractor Airbus will invest an additional $1 million toward a material distribution center the company operates in Ashburn, Virginia that will support a consolidated operations hub with the parent company’s Satair Group subsidiary. Airbus will also add more employees to the facility as the company works to fulfill orders of more than 2,800 Airbus aircraft for customers in the Latin America, North […] More

Huntington Ingalls Industries has added a new structure designed to update the construction workflow on a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier at its Newport News Shipbuilding dry dock facility. HII’s 965-ton “superlift” will work to support the continued development of the U.S. Navy’s future John F. Kennedy carrier, which the company said Tuesday is currently 17 percent complete ahead of its scheduled launch in 2020. […] More

Orbital ATK has announced plans to procure parts of the Defense Department’s Cold War-era intercontinental ballistic missiles and use them for commercial satellite launches, The Washington Post reported Monday. Christian Davenport writes the company’s plan comes ahead of the Tuesday hearing in Congress on a two-decade ban on the sale of DoD’s stockpile of ICBMs for commercial use. “It’s […] More

An amphibious transport dock that Huntington Ingalls Industries designed and built for the U.S. Navy has completed a series of builder’s tests in the Gulf of Mexico. HII said March 7 its Ingalls Shipbuilding division performed more than 200 test events on the USS John P. Murtha (LPD 26) during at-sea trials that lasted for four days. The ship is the 10th […] More