Australia/Black Hawks. Australia on Jan. 18 officially announced it will buy 40 UH-60M Black Hawk helicopters, with the deal estimated around $2 billion. Deliveries for the Sikorsky-built helicopters to the Australian Army are expected to begin this year. “The Black Hawk capability will be a ...
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Caret on RTX Board. Leanne Caret, who retired as Boeing’s defense chief last year, was elected to the board of Raytheon Technologies where she is on the audit and special activities committees. Caret’s term began Jan. 16 and will expire later this year at the company’s annual shareholder ...
Rocket Lab Ready. After having to postpone in December the first launch of its Electron rocket from U.S. soil, Rocket Lab USA has opened a new launch window that begins Jan. 23 with back-up dates extending into early February. The upcoming launch from the company’s Launch Complex 2 at NASA’s ...
USSF-67. The U.S. Space Force (USSF) may launch its USSF-67 mission from Kennedy Space Center, Fla., on Jan. 12 aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket. Payloads will include Boeing’s Continuous Broadcast Augmenting SATCOM 2 (CBAS 2) communications satellite and the Northrop Grumman Long Duration ...
In a majority opinion, a panel of judges for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit found President Biden overstepped his authority by using the Procurement Act to require virtually all federal contract workers be vaccinated against COVID-19. “The President asks this Court to ratify an ...