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Orbital ATK [OA] announced Sept. 11 that it has begun assembling its first robotic satellite-servicing spacecraft, which it plans to launch in 2018. Orbital ATK conducted a critical design review of […]

Northrop Grumman’s [NOC] proposed $7.8 billion acquisition of Orbital ATK [OA] will drive improved affordability for its customers, strengthen its competitiveness in a number of areas such as space and missile defense […]

Responding to customer demands for more affordable, flexible and responsive products, Lockheed Martin [LMT] on Sept. 19 introduced a new family of satellite busses with hundreds of common features able to carry […]

Stratolaunch Systems, which is developing an extra-large airplane to launch small satellites into space, has begun engine testing on the aircraft, the company announced Sept. 19. During the initial tests, […]

UK-based defense manufacturer Cobham has secured a potentially three-year deal to supply its proprietary BRU-61/A small diameter bomb carriage systems for Boeing [BA] fighter and bomber jets and unmanned aircraft. […]

Sweden’s Saab AB said on Sept. 18 that if the Boeing [BA] team wins the U.S. Air Force’s multi-billion dollar contract to develop and build the T-X trainer aircraft, it will open a manufacturing […]

Validating the significant U.S. investment in aircraft and pilot training, the Afghan air force is becoming proficient at supporting its own ground troops in combat with only minimal guidance from […]

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. – Officials from three top rotary aircraft producers said that the acquisition cycle can and should be made shorter to keep up with technological needs, adding that […]

The Navy is deploying a cyber analysis team to investigate the potential role of network vulnerabilities on one of its two destroyers involved in deadly collisions during a three-month span this […]

The Army is taking steps to modernize the security of its endpoint devices with a five-year, $182 million contract to McAfee and InfoReliance to deliver a risk management platform aimed at minimizing the cyber […]