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  • Lisa Colloredo: Boeing, SpaceX Work to Address NASA ‘LOC’ Safety Requirement for Crew Vehicles - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lisa Colloredo: Boeing, SpaceX Work to Address NASA ‘LOC’ Safety Requirement for Crew Vehicles

    Lisa Colloredo, deputy program manager for NASA’s commercial crew program, has said Boeing and SpaceX should be able to meet the agency’s safety requirements as they prepare to enter the flight testing phase for their commercial crew spacecraft over the next year, Space News reported Monday. Colloredo said at the Wednesday meeting of the NASA Advisory […] More

  • Lockheed PAC-3 Intercepts Ballistic Missile Targets in Flight Test; Scott Arnold Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed PAC-3 Intercepts Ballistic Missile Targets in Flight Test; Scott Arnold Comments

    Five Lockheed Martin-built air defense missile systems have worked to neutralize  tactical ballistic missile targets during a recent U.S. Army-led flight test at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. Lockheed said Tuesday the intercept test involved one Patriot Advanced Capability-3 Missile Segment Enhancement and four PAC-3 Cost Reduction Initiative interceptors. Results of the flight test meet a requirement that will open the […] More

  • Raytheon Demos AN/SPY-6 Radar in 2nd Ballistic Missile Flight Test - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Demos AN/SPY-6 Radar in 2nd Ballistic Missile Flight Test

    Raytheon has demonstrated an air and missile defense radar platform during the second ballistic missile flight test held at the U.S. Navy’s Pacific Missile Range Facility in Hawaii. The Raytheon-built AN/SPY-6(V) radar searched and tracked a long-range ballistic missile test target as well as satellites and aircraft during the live test flight, the company said Tuesday. The […] More

  • Lockheed Demos Surface-Launched Anti-Ship Missile Variant - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Demos Surface-Launched Anti-Ship Missile Variant

    Lockheed Martin conducted an initial flight test of a surface-launch variant of its Long Range Anti-Ship Missile Wednesday at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. The company said Thursday it used a topside canister with an angled launch platform to deploy the surface-launched LRASM and simulate a ship-launched environment. LRASM, booster adapter and the Mk-114 booster […] More

  • Lockheed Taps ViaSat to Provide Navy LRASM Weapon Data Links - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Taps ViaSat to Provide Navy LRASM Weapon Data Links

    Lockheed Martin has awarded ViaSat a contract of an undisclosed value to provide L-band data link communications technology for the integration and testing phase of the U.S. Navy‘s Long Range Anti-Ship Missile program. ViaSat said Wednesday it will deliver Weapon Data Link L-Band units and provide software enhancement and flight test support services under the follow-on contract. LRASM is a key element of the […] More

  • Raytheon SM-6 Missile Moves Toward Full Operational Capability - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon SM-6 Missile Moves Toward Full Operational Capability

    The U.S. Navy has conducted flight tests of the Raytheon-built Standard Missile-6 weapon system to validate whether the missile is ready to obtain full operational capability. Raytheon said Thursday four SM-6 missiles were launched throughout the “graduation” tests to engage shore-launched, sub- or supersonic targets. Mike Campisi, Raytheon SM-6 senior program director, said the Navy started to deploy SM-6s four years ago but the […] More

  • Mercury Systems Unveils Mission Computing Tech Portfolio for Defense and Aerospace Markets - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mercury Systems Unveils Mission Computing Tech Portfolio for Defense and Aerospace Markets

    Mercury Systems has introduced a set of products designed to help address mission computing, avionics and platform management requirements of defense and commercial aerospace organizations. The Mercury Mission Systems product line is comprised of avionics-certified Ethernet and input/output systems, command and control processors, flight test computers, graphics and video processing, mission computers and primary flight control units, the company said Thursday. The portfolio […] More

  • Northrop Helps Army Test-Fly Upgraded Black Hawk Helicopter - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Helps Army Test-Fly Upgraded Black Hawk Helicopter

    Northrop Grumman has collaborated with the U.S. Army and Redstone Defense Systems to conduct the first test flight of a UH-60V Black Hawk helicopter equipped with a digitized cockpit. Northrop said Monday it supplied the Integrated Avionics Suite for the UH-60V modernization program, which seeks to replace the older analog gauges of the Army’s UH-60L Black Hawk fleet with digital electronic instrument displays. Redstone […] More

  • Raytheon's SM-3 Block IIA Missile Accomplishes Initial Intercept Flight Test - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon’s SM-3 Block IIA Missile Accomplishes Initial Intercept Flight Test

    A Raytheon defensive missile has completed the first U.S. Navy and Missile Defense Agency flight test that sought to evaluate its capacity to intercept ballistic missile threats. Raytheon said Saturday the USS John Paul Jones guided missile destroyer launched the Standard Missile-3 Block IIA during the test to intercept a land-launched target. The demonstration sought to evaluate the performance of the SM-3 […] More