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The Department of Commerce on Monday said it has selected BAE Systems for $35 million in potential funding to modernize the company’s defense-focused Microelectronics Center (MEC) as part of the […]

The Defense Business Board, in a space acquisition report last month, recommends significant improvements to the Joint Capabilities Integration and Development System (JCIDS) in order to help scale up the […]

The U.S. Missile Defense Agency and Boeing [BA] said that a Dec. 11 test of the Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD) demonstrated the possibility of engaging adversary ballistic missiles more rapidly. […]

Signaling a potential successor to Boeing [BA] President and CEO Dave Calhoun, the company on Monday named Stephanie Pope to the newly created position of chief operating officer (COO), overseeing […]

The Army has officially accepted delivery of the first Lockheed Martin [LMT]-built Precision Strike Missiles (PrSM), the service said on Friday.  Delivery of the PrSM Inc. 1 Early Operational Capability […]

Congressional defense authorizers want insights from the Department of the Air Force on future hybrid satellite communications (SATCOM) terminals able to use commercial and military signals. U.S. Space Force has […]

Responding to customer demands for faster paced innovation and more production capacity, Northrop Grumman [NOC] on Thursday conducted a full-scale static hot fire test of a new solid rocket motor […]

The U.S. Space Force’s Space Development Agency (SDA) has awarded contracts to Northrop Grumman [NOC] and Lockheed Martin [LMT] for 72 Tranche 2, Transport Layer-Beta satellites and expects to award […]

The defense authorization committees propose limiting U.S. Air Force retirements of Boeing [BA] F-15E fighters. In addition to divesting the service’s aged F-15Cs and Ds, the Air Force has been […]

The agreed-upon conference report on the 2024 must-pass defense policy bill includes a requirement for the Defense Department and National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) to develop a nuclear-armed sea-launched cruise […]