Air Force
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Air ForceNorthrop Grumman Wins B-21 Second LRIP Lot Award, Company Positioned for Sixth Generation Aircraft Competitions, CEO Says
Northrop Grumman [NOC] said on Thursday that it received, as expected, a U.S. Air Force contract in the fourth quarter last year for the second low-rate initial production (LRIP) lot […]
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SpaceL3Harris Receives Space Force Software Contract to Meet ATLAS IOC, Planned for September
The U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command has awarded L3Harris Technologies [LHX] a nearly $90 million cost-plus-fixed fee contract through October 2027 with two option periods for the Advanced Tracking […]
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Air ForceFive Teams to Focus on Space Domain Awareness for Space Rapid Capabilities Office
The U.S. Space Force’s Space Rapid Capabilities Office (RCO) at Kirtland AFB, N.M., on Wednesday identified five teams of small businesses and “leading prime integrators to advance integrated satellites” under […]
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SpaceArray Labs Teams with Raytheon and Umbra Space on 3D Imaging
Silicon Valley’s Array Labs, Inc.–a four-year-old startup that aims to field a constellation of low Earth orbit, three dimensional, synthetic aperture radar (SAR) cube satellites with 20 centimeter x 20 […]
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Nuclear ModernizationLos Alamos’ Plutonium Pit Production of 30 Annually for Sentinel May Have to Wait Beyond 2026
As the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) awaits its marching orders from the Trump administration, the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) is now saying it will get […]
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Advanced / Transformational TechnologyGE Aerospace and RTX’s Pratt & Whitney Score Big Prototype Contracts for NGAP
GE Aerospace [GE] and RTX‘s [RTX] Pratt & Whitney on Monday received U.S. Air Force contracts worth up to $3.5 billion each for technology maturation and risk reduction (TMRR) in […]
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Air ForceNo Answers from Pentagon on Deportation Costs Nor Share for DoD/DHS
As the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), its Customs and Border Protection (CBP), and DoD undertake what could be the deportation of up to 13 million persons in the United […]
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Unmanned SystemsEric Schmdit-Backed Foundation Advises New Tech Innovation Budget for DoD
The Special Competitive Studies Project (SCSP) is advising the Trump administration to create a new tech innovation budget for artificial intelligence (AI), software and automation in the Department of Defense–an […]
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Air ForceWork on E-7A Wedgetail for USAF Rapid Prototype to Begin
Boeing‘s [BA] defense systems unit said on Wednesday that the first E-7A Wedgetail fuselage for the U.S. Air Force rapid prototype program has arrived at the Boeing 737 line in […]
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Air ForceStartup With 3D-Printed UAS Gets $100 Million Air Force Award
Firestorm Labs, a startup that uses additive manufacturing to print unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), has received a $100 million Air Force contract for test and development purposes using the company’s […]