The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) on Friday awarded Northrop Grumman [NOC] $155 million for the second prototype award for the Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor (HBTSS) Phase IIa effort. Under this award, the company will provide the MDA’s HBTSS an on-orbit prototype demonstration, ...

The Navy has stopped accepting delivery of Freedom-variant Littoral Combat Ships (LCSs) after finding a problem with the combining gear on the ships. The government investigated a “material defect with the combining gear” on the Freedom-variant LCSs, Navy spokesman Alan Baribeau told Defense ...

On Dec. 31, the U.S. Air Force ended its Launch Services Agreements (LSAs) with Northrop Grumman [NOC] and Blue Origin and paid out $787.2 million to the companies–$531.7 million to Northrop Grumman and $255.5 million to Blue Origin, the Air Force said on Jan. 22. The service said that the ...

The Department of State has selected CGI [GIB], General Dynamics [GD] and PAE [PAE] to compete for task orders on its potential 10-year, $3.3 billion contract to provide consular support services worldwide. Under the Global Support Strategy for Overseas Consular Support Services 2.0 contract, the ...

After being confirmed in a nearly unanimous vote by the Senate, Lloyd Austin was quickly sworn in and working at the Pentagon Friday afternoon as President Biden’s Secretary of Defense. Austin, the retired Army four-star that once headed U.S. Central Command, received a 93-2 vote in favor of his ...

The U.S. Air Force awarded Northrop Grumman [NOC] a potentially $3.6 billion operations and sustainment contract for the company’s  Battlefield Airborne Communications Node (BACN) on Jan. 21. “This contract provides for research, development, test, and evaluation, integration and ...