The Air Force on Tuesday awarded Northrop Grumman [NOC] a $149.6 million contract modification to exercise an option year for the Battlefield Airborne Communications Node (BACN) payload operations and sustainment. BACN is a high-altitude airborne gateway that distributes and translates voice ...

A senior official at the University of California has been picked to lead nuclear weapons programs at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory effective Feb. 4, the Department of Energy facility said Tuesday. Kimberly Budil will be principal associate director for weapons and complex integration: ...

Israel successfully conducted a test of the Arrow-3 ballistic missile defense system on Jan. 22, the U.S. and Israel said on Tuesday. The U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) worked with the Israel Missile Defense Organization (IMDO) of the Directorate of the Defense Research and Development (DDR& ...

Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) yesterday revealed her decision to run for president in 2020, becoming the fourth female lawmaker to seek the Democratic nomination. A member of the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, Harris, 54, made her official announcement Jan. 21 during an ...

After a year-long review of its strategic alternatives and no satisfactory offers, lightweight metals supplier Arconic [ARNC] on Tuesday said it will not sell the business. “Together with management, we have been conducting a rigorous and comprehensive strategy and portfolio review over the past ...

A year after the Navy said it had no plans yet to replace the rounds for the DDG-1000 Zumwalt-class destroyer main guns, an official repeated it was still looking at replacement options at the annual Surface Navy Association symposium. DDG-1000 program manager Capt. Kevin Smith said on Jan. 16 the ...