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Sierra Nevada Corp. has secured a $48.3 million contract to provide two more sensors-equipped aircraft that would help U.S. Customs and Border Protection detect and track border security threats. The pair of Multi-Role Enforcement Aircraft will support CBP's surveillance across border areas that pose environmental challenges, such as austere weather and terrain obstacles, SNC said Tuesday.

An industry team led by Leidos' Dynetics business has submitted its proposal for a human landing system that will support NASA's Artemis mission to the moon slated for 2024.

The Demonstration and Science Experiments satellite of the Air Force Research Laboratory performed the first space-to-space very low frequency transmission within three months of its launch during a coordinated experiment with the Japanese Space Agency's Arase spacecraft. The DSX satellite launched in June 2019 to study the interactions of space plasma, radiation belts and radio waves in near-Earth space.

SpaceX is slated to launch an updated Dragon space vehicle aboard the Falcon 9 rocket Dec. 5 to the International Space Station as part of NASA's 21st Commercial Resupply Services mission.

The U.S. Customs and Border Protection has ordered two more Sierra Nevada Corp. multimission planes that are based on the Beechcraft King Air 350 twin-turboprop aircraft and equipped with passive and active sensors.

Sierra Nevada Corp. has been selected to advance to the third phase of a U.S. Army competition to develop a system that can help pilots operate in fog, dirt and other limited visibility conditions, National Defense reported Friday.

Sierra Nevada Corp. has received a $12.4M contract to help the U.S. Navy modernize equipment for air traffic control and landing functions aboard aircraft carriers.

Sierra Nevada Corp. has tapped Northrop Grumman to supply a radio frequency countermeasure technology for integration onto the U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command's AC-130J gunship and MC-130J tanker aircraft.

The Defense Innovation Unit has awarded contracts to three companies to study concepts for small, unmanned space stations in low-Earth orbit, SpaceNews reported Sunday.

The Defense Innovation Unit has awarded Sierra Nevada Corp. a contract to create an unmanned orbital outpost prototype based on the company's space transport vehicle design. SNC said Tuesday it will repurpose the 16-foot Shooting Star hardware that was originally designed to function as a Dream Chaser spaceplane attachment under NASA's Commercial Resupply Services 2 program.

General Atomics' aeronautical systems unit has conducted a third demonstration of how the extended-range Gray Eagle unmanned aircraft system could support the U.S. Army in multidomain operations. The company said Monday it used intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance payloads, long-range sensors, command and control systems and air-launched effects from industry partners during monthlong demo event.

Exquadrum has concluded hot-fire tests of a rocket motor technology being developed with Dynetics to support the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's efforts to build and demonstrate ground-launched hypersonic weapon system.

Sierra Nevada Corp. is slated to deliver an A-29 Super Tucano aircraft to the U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command in support of combat aviation adviser missions.

Sierra Nevada Corp. has received and unpacked the Lockheed Martin-built wing units of a spaceplane designed to resupply the International Space Station for NASA.

The U.S. Special Operations Command has launched a new program aimed at providing manned light-attack aircraft to special operations forces, FlightGlobal magazine reported Thursday.