L3Harris Technologies will develop and deliver systems through which U.S. Air Force personnel would train to operate a new intercontinental ballistic missile, National Defense Magazine reported Tuesday. The company will perform this work as a subcontractor to support the Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent missile under an existing $13.3B contract held by Northrop Grumman.
Read More »Kathy Warden: Northrop Invests in Digital Engineering for Air Force GBSD Missile Program
Kathy Warden, the chairman, president and CEO of Northrop Grumman and a 2020 Wash100 Award recipient, said the company is leveraging digital manufacturing technologies for U.S. Air Force missile programs, Defense News reported Tuesday.
Read More »Kathy Warden: Northrop Optimistic on Nuclear Modernization Initiatives Under New Admin
Kathy Warden, chairman, president and CEO of Northrop Grumman and a 2020 Wash100 award winner, said she “is very confident” that nuclear modernization programs would still get government backing in the event that a new president gets elected, Inside Defense reported Thursday.
Read More »Aerojet Rocketdyne Opens Arkansas Production Facility for Large Solid Rocket Motors
Aerojet Rocketdyne has reached full operations at a 17K-square-foot facility in Camden, Arkansas, for engineering and manufacturing development of large solid rocket motors.
Read More »Textron to Supply Reentry Tech for Air Force’s Next ICBM Weapon System
Textron Systems has been selected to provide a reentry platform for the intercontinental ballistic missile system Northrop Grumman is developing as the prime contractor of the U.S. Air Force's Ground Based Strategic Deterrent program.
Read More »Northrop Grumman Selects Bechtel to Support GBSD Under $13.3B Contract
Bechtel National, the U.S. government contracting subsidiary of Bechtel, has been selected by Northrop Grumman to help deliver the U.S. Ground Based Strategic Deterrent System (GBSD) of intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) and develop infrastructure for the U.S. Air Force, Bechtel reported on Thursday. In support of Northrop Grumman’s 8.5-year, $13.3 billion contract, Bechtel will provide launch infrastructure design and construction.
Read More »CSEngineering-BoxBoat Team Receives DoD DevSecOps Support Task Order
A team comprised of BoxBoat Technologies and CSEngineering secured a task order to help the Department of Defense's DevSecOps enterprise services team manage software applications for the U.S. Air Force's intercontinental ballistic missile system modernization project.
Read More »Northrop’s Kathy Warden: Air Force’s Urgency to Replace ICBM Keeps GBSD Program on Pace
Kathy Warden, chairman, president and CEO of Northrop Grumman and a 2020 Wash100 award winner, said she believes future budget pressures as a result of the coronavirus pandemic will not have an impact on the schedule of the U.S. Air Force’s $85B Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent intercontinental ballistic missile program, the Washington Business Journal reported Wednesday.
Read More »Air Force Concludes Initial Review of Northrop’s GBSD System Design
The U.S. Air Force conducted in late April a three-day preliminary design review of Northrop Grumman’s proposed system for the Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent intercontinental ballistic missile program, the service branch reported Friday.
Read More »Kathy Warden: Northrop Prepares for Air Force GBSD Weapon Dev’t Program
Kathy Warden, CEO of Northrop Grumman and a 2020 Wash100 awardee, said the company has moved to invest in people and facilities in anticipation of receiving a potential $85B contract to build the U.S. Air Force's Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent weapon system.
Read More »Boeing, Northrop Draft Requirements for Next Phase of ICBM Replacement Program
Boeing and Northrop Grumman have started setting the requirements for the next phase of a program that aims to replace the U.S. Air Force’s aging Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile, National Defense Magazine reported Friday. Patricia Dare, team lead for strategic deterrence systems at Boeing, said the firm will provide the Air …
Read More »Boeing Presents Minuteman III ICBM Replacement Designs to Air Force
The U.S. Air Force has received Boeing’s design options for a new Intercontinental Ballistic Missile system envisioned to thwart nuclear threats over the next five decades. Boeing said Friday it completed a system requirements review for the service branch’s Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent program in November, three months after the company won a $349.1 million contract to support GBSD technology …
Read More »Boeing, Northrop Begin Ground-Based ICBM Design Concept Development
Boeing and Northrop Grumman have started to develop designs of the Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent intercontinental ballistic missile for the U.S. Air Force, SpaceNews reported Tuesday. The service branch awarded in August 2017 approximately $678 million in combined contracts to Boeing and Northrop to perform technology maturation and risk reduction work …
Read More »Aerojet Rocketdyne to Support Northrop’s Ground-Based ICBM Risk Reduction Work
Aerojet Rocketdyne will provide propulsion system support to aid Northrop Grumman‘s technology maturation and risk reduction efforts under the U.S. Air Force‘s Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent intercontinentinal ballistic missile program. Sacramento, California-based Aerojet Rocketdyne said Monday it will study propulsion options and develop early designs that meet Northrop’s ICBM configurations. The Air Force …
Read More »Boeing’s Frank McCall: New ICBM Would Cost Less Than Minuteman Service Life Extension
Frank McCall, head of strategic deterrence at Boeing, has said the development of a new intercontinental ballistic missile would be cheaper than another service life extension effort on the Boeing-built Minuteman III ICBM, Breaking Defense reported Wednesday. McCall told reporters that the U.S. Air Force‘s future ICBM dubbed Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent would provide better …
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