Spooky Space Symposium? The annual Space Symposium has been rescheduled to be held Oct. 31-Nov. 2 at the Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs, the foundation said Thursday. The conference was originally scheduled for March 30-April 3, but was postponed due to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. ...

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COVID-19

Navy Awards HII $1.5 billion For LPD-31 Work, Accelerated For Pandemic

04/03/2020 by Rich Abott

The Navy on Friday awarded Huntington Ingalls Industries [HII] a $1.5 billion modification to procure the detail design and construction of Landing Platform Dock (LPD)-31 as it accelerates awards to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic. The contract announcement noted this award covers the detail design ...

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COVID-19

Navy Awards Swiftships $50 Million In LCUs

04/03/2020 by Rich Abott

The Navy awarded Swiftships LLC a $50 million modification to build four more Landing Craft utility (LCU) transportation boats as the service accelerates releasing contracts amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The award is exercising an option to construct LCU boats 1703-1706. The LCU 1700-class boats will ...

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Army

Boeing Pauses Production At Philadelphia-Area Facility Due To Pandemic Impact

04/03/2020 by Matthew Beinart

Boeing [BA] has halted work at its production facility outside of Philadelphia, where it manufactures aircraft such as the H-47 Chinook heavy-lift aircraft, the V-22 Osprey tiltrotor and the MH-139A Grey Wolf helicopter, due to the ongoing impact of the coronavirus pandemic in the area. The plant ...

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Navy/USMC

Boeing Wins $85 Million Mod For Three More MQ-25A Stingrays

04/03/2020 by Rich Abott

Naval Air Systems Command awarded Boeing [BA] an $85 million modification to procure three more MQ-25A Stingray unmanned aerial refueling aircraft. This modification exercises contract options to procure three more MQ-25 “System Demonstration Test Articles.” The Navy plans to use the MQ-25A ...

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Air Force

DoD Faces Avionics Terminal Challenges

04/03/2020 by Frank Wolfe

On March 27, the Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) awarded Raytheon [RTN] and L3Harris [LHX] $500 million each to develop protected tactical waveform capable modems for the next generation Protected Tactical Satcom (PTS), but the applicable wave forms are largely DoD, not commercial, ...

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Congress

Schiff Wants 9/11-Style Commission To Examine COVID-19 Readiness, Response

04/03/2020 by Cal Biesecker

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) last Friday said he has begun circulating a draft bill to create a bipartisan, 9/11-style commission to review the nation’s preparedness for and response to the ongoing pandemic and to provide recommendations to strengthen response ...

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In December, the Navy awarded General Dynamics a contract for the first Columbia-class strategic submarine, which will replace the aging Ohio-class subs in their critical nuclear deterrence mission. All in all, the modernization program is expected ...

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More than 50 million flight hours have been logged with the T-53 turboshaft engine, powering military aircraft including the UH-1 Huey, the AH-1 Cobra, and recently the Kaman K-Max, which the U.S. Marine Corps has used for unmanned cargo delivery ...

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