NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — Approaching the U.S. Navy’s final planned buy of Boeing [BA] P-8 Poseidons in 2020, 169 of the multimission maritime aircraft have been sold across seven countries. As primary buyer, the Navy contractually accounts for 111 of those planes, according to Capt. Tony ...

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — The business case for Northrop Grumman‘s [NOC] assured position, navigation and timing (A-PNT) solution is tricky, on its face — GPS is better, and as long as you have GPS, you don’t need it. Naveen Joshi, Northrop’s director of A-PNT readily admits that. ...

Textron [TXT] is flight testing a new Block 3 version of its AAI-developed RQ-7 Shadow UAS, which the U.S. Army has been using for 20 years and, according to Textron, plans to use for at least 10 more. Shadow Block 3 is currently about three weeks into testing with two to go, after all of […] ...

Lockheed Martin [LMT] has flight tested its pilotage distributed aperture sensor (PDAS) on a Bell V-280 Valor. PDAS is a multi-function sensor system for vertical lift aircraft that generations and fuses high-resolution, 360-degree real-time imagery with a goal reminiscent of the sensor suite and ...

Raytheon [RTN] and Lockheed Martin [LMT] are teaming up to chase a contract to update U.S. National Airspace infrastructure with new, multipurpose radars. In an attempt to both modernize the national airspace system (NAS) and free up L-band spectrum for the coming 5G data, a joint program office ...

The U.S. Defense Department plans to spend about $6.6 billion on continuous capability development and delivery (C2D2) for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter from 2019 through 2024, according to its just-released fiscal year 2020 budget proposal. Lockheed Martin‘s [LMT] F-35 has been in low-rate ...