PARIS AIR SHOW—Raytheon [RTN] and Northrop Grumman [NOC] signed a teaming agreement here on June 18 to build hypersonic weapons under the $200 million Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept (HAWC) program for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the U.S. Air Force. The ...

An Army official on Tuesday explained the main principles underpinning the service’s new Intellectual Property (IP) Strategy. Alexis Lasselle Ross, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Strategy and Acquisition Reform, explained previously the service shifted between two divergent approaches: ...

With federal civilian government agencies slow to test and field technologies to mitigate potential threats from small drones, particularly populated urban environments where safety is paramount, several senators suggested on Tuesday that local law enforcement officials throughout the country be ...

  Senate lawmakers want the Army to consider speeding up acquisition of a futuristic replacement for the UH-60 Black Hawk and want a tailored acquisition plan to do so delivered by Oct. 1. In its report on the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act published June 11, the Senate Armed Services ...

Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan has withdrawn his nomination to officially become the Pentagon’s top civilian and will also resign as deputy defense secretary as “a painful and deeply personal family situation from long ago” has come to light, he said June 18. “I would welcome the ...

Raytheon [RTN] on Tuesday said it has teamed with counter-drone technology supplier Black Sage to provide an integrated solution to mitigate threats from unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) for civil, critical infrastructure and military applications worldwide. Raytheon also made two additional ...