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Simulating the high heat and speed of hypersonic systems is key for Massachusetts’ Draper Laboratory in its work on the Air Force Research Laboratory’s (AFRL) Mayhem program. A Leidos [LDOS] team won a $334 million, 51-month AFRL contract f…
U.S. Space Force (USSF) said that a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket lofted the Boeing [BA] Continuous Broadcast Augmenting SATCOM (CBAS)-2 and Northrop Grumman [NOC] Long Duration Propulsive ESPA (LDPE)-3A communications satellites into orbit on Jan. 15 fro…
The head of U.S. Space Force said this week that the war in Ukraine has emphasized the “criticality of space in modern warfare” and said that commercial systems will continue to play a significant role in conflicts as U.S. forces seek speed…
The U.S. Space Force this week issued a solicitation to sustain the Raytheon Technologies [RTX] AN/FPS-108 Cobra Dane radar. The chosen contractor will aid the program office at Peterson Space Force Base, Colo. for life-cycle management of Cobra Dane, …
Northrop Grumman [NOC] said on Jan. 11 that it is developing the AN/APG-85 Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) radar for Lot 17 and beyond of the Lockheed Martin [LMT] F-35 fighter. The APG-85 will be the follow-on to the F-35’s current AN…
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. (GA-ASI) said on Jan. 11 that a company-owned MQ-20 Avenger drone advanced the company’s internally funded work on Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) in three autonomous missions last month. On Dec. 14, …
A developmental test team from the 461st Flight Test Squadron at Edwards AFB, Calif., flew the Technology Refresh-3 (TR-3) configuration of the Lockheed Martin [LMT] F-35 fighter for the first time on Jan. 6, the F-35 Joint Program Office (JPO) said on…
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. [KTOS] is to help oversee the System Requirements Review for Leidos‘ [LDOS] Mayhem air-breathing hypersonic aircraft proposal for the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), Kratos said on Jan. 10. Leid…
Canada has finalized a deal to buy 88 Lockheed Martin [LMT] F-35As to replace 76 Boeing [BA] CF-18 Hornet fighters for the Royal Canadian Air Force. More than nine months ago, Canada said it had begun negotiations with Lockheed Martin and the U.S. gove…
U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command (SSC) has awarded Raytheon Techologies’ [RTX] Intelligence & Space and Boeing’s [BA] Millennium Space Systems $605 million to design, build and deliver the first two prototype Missile Track Custody spa…