Northrop Grumman [NOC] on Friday publicly unveiled the new B-21 Raider, the Air Force’s new stealth bomber and the first sixth-generation aircraft. The ceremony in Palmdale, California at the Air Force’s Plant 42 follows years of secrecy around the B-21 to protect sensitive program details, ...
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Following Norway’s move to become the first international customer for Lockheed Martin’s [LMT] new TPY-4 long-range radar, the company said it has seen a “significant amount” of interest from potential international and domestic customers in the system. Chandra Marshall, Lockheed Martin’s ...
The U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command (SSC) has conducted two critical design reviews for Missile Track Custody (MTC) Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) Overhead Persistent Infrared Sensor (OPIR) payloads by Raytheon Technologies [RTX] and Boeing‘s [BA] Millenium Space Systems. SSC said ...
The U.S. Air Force has awarded Boeing [BA] a more than $398 million contract for two KC-46A tankers for the Japan Air Self-Defense Force, DoD said on Nov. 29. Work on the two tankers is to be completed in Everett, Wash., by June 30, 2025. Japan has six KC-46A tankers, and Boeing delivered the first ...
Commercial space is becoming key for DoD to detect, analyze and respond to threats, a top official said on Nov. 29. “As of today, we’ve got about 120 commercial mission partners working with us,” Army Gen. James Dickinson, the head of U.S. Space Command (SPACECOM), told a Mitchell ...
Pittsburgh’s Gecko Robotics said on Nov. 29 that the U.S. Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center has awarded the company an 18-month, $1.5 million Phase 2 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract to aid the Air Force in the planned conversion of 450 Minuteman III silos to accommodate the ...