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RTX, previously known as Raytheon Technologies, has announced that the U.S. Air Force successfully completed the first flight test of the AIM-120C-8 missile – the latest international variant of AMRAAM developed under the Form, Fit, Function (F3R) refr…
The U.S. Department of Defense has awarded Raytheon a contract worth $192 million to purchase AIM-120 missiles. According to a press release from the Department of Defense, this contract provides for Raytheon to purchase fielded AIM-120 weapons from va…
Washington and Tokyo hope to nail down co-funding details for the Glide Phase Interceptor by next year, according to a Pentagon spokesperson.
The Air Force fired another all-up round test of the Lockheed Martin-made ARRW, but like a previous test that a top official later admitted fell short of its goals, the service won’t claim that this test met all its objectives.
“What we don’t know yet from directed energy systems, necessarily, is… how to fight [with] lasers on the battlefield, how to integrate kinetic and non-kinetic effectors,” said Lt. Gen. Robert Rasch.
With the increasing complexity of cyber threats and the global shortage of cybersecurity experts, organizations are looking for creative approaches to recruiting and retaining top talent. In this Help Net Security interview, Jon Check, Executive Direct…
“This will be a great thing for the Medium Range Intercept Capability program and for the USMC, if this occurs,” Don Kelley, the Marine Corps Program Executive Officer Land Systems Ground-Based Air Defense program manager, said of a US production facil…
“The defense industry was historically constrained by a mindset that time in the job was the only way to obtain competence,” writes Jennifer Brummund of Raytheon. “While we value and are proud to retain our longtime employees, we also…
While key executives tell Breaking Defense they have adjusted to the new normal, experts worry IT supply chain vulnerabilities could be exploited in the future by adversarial nations.
“We have to try to work on accelerating our build timelines,” Kremer said of fast-tracking critical defense articles. “But I think [governments] have to also take on the challenge of, how do you get the industry under contracts quicke…