James Taiclet, president and CEO of Lockheed Martin, said acquiring Aerojet Rocketdyne will bring in propulsion systems for potential integration with Lockheed-built missile and rocket offerings, Via Satellite reported Monday. Taiclet told analysts Monday during a conference call he expects the transaction to support upfront design, production planning and engineering integration efforts at the Bethesda, Maryland-based aerospace and defense company.
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 »Air Force Tests ABMS With Anduril’s Missile Defense Sentry Towers; Christian Brose Quoted
The U.S. Air Force has conducted a test of its Advanced Battle Management System along with Anduril-built missile defense towers and command-and-control technology at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico.
Read More »Raytheon Technologies’ Wallis Laughrey, Bryan Rosselli on Future Missile Defense Priorities
Wallis Laughrey, vice president of space and command and control systems at Raytheon Technologies’ intelligence and space business, has said the company is working on radar technologies for future space architectures built on hybrid sensors.
Read More »SAIC Wins $171.5M Contract to Support Navy Training Platforms; Jim Scanlon Quoted
Science Applications International Corp. has been awarded a $171.5 million single-award contract by the U.S. Navy to continue its support of training systems, including virtual and synthetic training environments, as part of the Fleet Deployment Training Program supporting U.S. Navy Fleet Forces (USFF) and associated Fleet commands and activities, the company announced Thursday.
Read More »Army Conducts 2nd Live-Fire Test of Northrop-Built IBCS Missile Defense Platform
The U.S. Army has completed the second live-fire test of the Integrated Battle Command System built by Northrop Grumman as part of the service branch’s efforts to modernize its air and missile defense arsenal.
Read More »Army Completes 1st Operational Testing of Northrop-Built Integrated Battle Command System
The U.S. Army has demonstrated a Northrop Grumman-built battle management system’s capacity to ingest sensor data and continuously track targets in contested environments during an operational flight test in New Mexico.
Read More »Orolia to Provide Frequency Tech for Missile Defense Radar Program; Hironori Sasaki Quoted
Orolia has been selected by Raytheon Technologies to support the U.S. Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensor (LTAMDS) radar program with its low size, weight and power, rugged time and frequency system, Oriola said Wednesday.
Read More »Kratos Books Missile Defense C5ISR Tech Support Contracts
Kratos Defense and Security Solutions has reported multiple contract awards worth $30M combined to support command, control, computing, communication, combat, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance systems for a national security program. The company said Thursday it will provide C5ISR technologies for missile defense-related combat equipment.
Read More »MDA Issues RFI on SM-3 Block IIA Missile Interceptor Production, Integration Services
The Missile Defense Agency is looking for a potential contractor to provide Standard Missile-3 ballistic missile interceptor rounds and support the technology's integration into U.S. Navy vessels and Aegis Ashore combat facilities in Europe.
Read More »Navy Exercises $59M Option on General Dynamics Aegis Control System Parts Supply Contract
General Dynamics has received a $58.6M contract modification exercising the first option year of a previously issued award for the supply of Aegis Weapon System components to the U.S. Navy and international customers.
Read More »Navy Deploys Johns Hopkins APL-Built Tool for Ship Performance Assessments
Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory has developed a tool designed to make combat system assessments for U.S. Navy operators aboard the USS Bunker Hill guided-missile cruiser.
Read More »Raytheon-Kongsberg Team Eyes Flight Test for Joint Strike Missile on F-35A This Year
A team consisting of Raytheon and Norwegian aerospace and defense firm Kongsberg expect to conduct a flight test for its Joint Strike Missile on an F-35A fighter jet this year, Breaking Defense reported Wednesday.
Read More »Raytheon’s Scott Spence, Lockheed’s Paul Lemmo Talk Support for Navy’s Next-Gen Radar Needs
Raytheon and the U.S. Navy are working to integrate the former’s AN/SPY-6 missile defense radar into the Lockheed Martin-built Aegis combat system to be installed on the service’s guided-missile destroyers, National Defense Magazine reported Friday.
Read More »Bruce Jette, Army Assistant Secretary, Named to 2020 Wash100 for Driving Service Acquisition, Logistics and Technology
Executive Mosaic is pleased to announce Bruce Jette, assistant secretary of the U.S. Army for acquisition, logistics and technology, as an inductee into the 2020 edition of the Wash100 for leading innovation and the service branch’s modernization initiatives.
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