RTX Receives Nearly $408 Million for HACM Experiment with Australia
The U.S. Air Force has awarded RTX [RTX]’s missiles and defense business in Tucson, Ariz., a nearly $408 million contract for the Hypersonic Attack Cruise Missile Southern Cross Integrated Flight […]
View ArticleFederal Government Should Financially Protect Commercial Space Systems,...
A former official at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) recently said that the federal government should offer a degree of financial protection for commercial space systems. “We have to...
View ArticleU.S. Space Force Launches Seventh X-37B Mission
The United States Space Force (USSF) launched the USSF-52 mission at 8:07 pm on Dec. 28 from Kennedy Space Center, Fla., in what marked the seventh flight for the Boeing […]
View ArticleRTX Says USAF Award for Company’s StormBreaker Munition Next Step in Weapon’s...
RTX [RTX] said on Jan. 3 that the U.S. Air Force’s Dec. 29 award to the company’s Tucson, Ariz. site for GBU-53B Small Diameter Bomb IIs (SDB IIs)–so called “StormBreakers”–represents […]
View ArticlePentagon Inspector General Outlines 83 Planned Projects, Including Evaluation...
The Pentagon Inspector General (IG) has outlined 83 projects–54 audits and 29 evaluations–that it plans to undertake in fiscal 2024. Among the projects are a DoD/National Reconnaissance Office space...
View ArticleTexas Federal Court Finds No ‘Irreparable Harm’ to F-35 Deliveries in Ongoing...
A Texas federal judge ruled on Dec. 29 that Pittsburgh’s Howmet Aerospace [HWM] likely broke its contract to supply titanium mill products to Lockheed Martin [LMT] for the F-35 fighter, […]
View ArticleSDA Awards Rocket Lab Up to $515 Million Contract for Transport Layer
The U.S. Space Force’s Space Development Agency (SDA) on Jan. 8 announced an up to $515 million award to Rocket Lab for 18 Tranche 2 Transport Layer (T2TL)-Beta satellites that […]
View Article18 Rocket Lab Satellites for SDA to Carry Standard Tactical SATCOM Radios, As...
The 18 Rocket Lab USA [RKLB] satellites for the U.S. Space Force Space Development Agency’s Tranche 2, Transport Layer (T2TL)-Beta are to have standard tactical satellite communications (SATCOM) links,...
View ArticleFirehawk Aerospace Nabs Army, Air Force SBIR Awards To Further Rocket Motor,...
Firehawk Aerospace, a Texas-based startup that bills itself as a propulsion solutions company, in the past two weeks has announced two separate awards from the Army and Air Force to […]
View ArticleSpace Development Agency Plans Award Fees for Future Ground Segment...
The U.S. Space Force’s Space Development Agency (SDA) wants a ground segment integrator for the agency’s future Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA)–a network of optically-linked...
View ArticleNorthrop Grumman Heralds Expected International Collaboration on DARC Radar
Northrop Grumman’s [NOC] on Jan. 11 heralded last September’s signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) by the Australia, United Kingdom, U.S. (AUKUS) alliance on the company’s Deep Space Advanced...
View ArticleFormer DTRA Official Argues for Some Sentinels to Be Mobile
Robert Peters, the former chief of strategic trends and effects for the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) from 2019 to 2022, argues that some of the future Northrop Grumman [NOC] […]
View ArticleNASA and Lockheed Martin Debut X-59 ‘Quiet’ Supersonic Demonstrator
NASA and Lockheed Martin‘s [LMT] Skunk Works division on Jan. 12 rolled out the X-59 “quiet” supersonic demonstrator aircraft in Palmdale, Calif. “The ceremony marked a significant milestone in...
View ArticleUp to $2.5 Billion Awarded for SDA Tranche 2, Tracking Layer Satellites
The U.S. Space Force’s Space Development Agency (SDA) said on Jan. 16 that it has awarded contracts worth up to $2.5 billion to three companies for 54 infrared sensor-equipped satellites […]
View ArticleNorthrop Grumman Announces Test of Sentinel Stage Two Solid Rocket Motor
Northrop Grumman [NOC] said on Jan. 16 that it has conducted a live, static-fire test of a stage-two solid rocket motor (SRM) for the LGM-35A Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile at […]
View ArticlePentagon, Taking Cue from Industry, Examining Satellite Refueling
The Pentagon is interested in leveraging industry work on concepts for refueling satellites in space, a DoD official said on Jan. 17. The concept of dynamic space operations is “realistic […]
View ArticleU.S. Air Force Test Center to Award B-2 IFF Contract for Chase Aircraft
The U.S. Air Force Test Center (AFTC) at Edwards AFB, Calif., said that it plans to award Alexandria, Va.-based Modern Technology Solutions, Inc. a contract to provide an Identification Friend […]
View ArticleGuetlein: ‘Reconstitution’ Can Trip Up Tactically Responsive Space
While the U.S. Space Force is interested in alternate positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) systems to alleviate the risk of an adversary or other disruption of GPS, the service’s tactically […]
View ArticleUSAF Looking Into Night Vision Goggle Training for KC-46A Pegasus
The U.S. Air Force is surveying industry to find companies able to develop Night Vision Goggle (NVG) training and support the latter for the KC-46A Pegasus Aircrew Training System (ATS) […]
View ArticleUSAF Tests ACES 5 Ejection Seat Drogue Parachute Upgrade for T-7A
The U.S. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center’s (AFLCMC) mobility and training directorate at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio said that AFLCMC has tested an escape system drogue parachute for the Advanced...
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