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Navy/USMCMarine Corps Places $256.8 Million Order With BAE Systems For More ACVs
BAE Systems said Monday the company has received a new $256.8 million full-rate production order for delivery of more Amphibious Combat Vehicles (ACV). The latest deal, officially awarded on March […]
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Nuclear ModernizationAir Force Fires First Full-Scale Sentinel Solid Rocket Motor
Northrop Grumman [NOC] recently completed the first full-scale static test of an LGM-35A Sentinel solid rocket motor at its test facility in Promontory, Utah, marking yet another milestone on the […]
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Air ForceGeneral Atomics: AFSOC First U.S. Customer for MQ-9B
U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command has become the first domestic customer for the MQ-9B SkyGuardian–a follow-on to the renowned MQ-9A Reaper, General Atomics said on March 6. Under the […]
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Air ForceFlight Acceptance Testing of F-35 Resumes in Fort Worth
Lockheed Martin [LMT] said on March 6 that it has resumed flight acceptance testing in Fort Worth, Texas of the company’s F-35 fighter. “We resumed F-35 production flight operations today […]
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Air ForceRolls-Royce F130 Engine for B-52 Fleet Begins Testing
Rolls-Royce said on March 1 that it has begun testing its F130 engine for the B-52 bomber at the company’s outdoor testing site at NASA Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. […]
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CyberTech Industry Reps See Thoughtful Approach To Regulations In Cyber Strategy; Liability Will Be Thorny
The Biden administration’s new National Cybersecurity Strategy suggests it will take a thorough approach to understanding what authorities currently exist to regulate critical infrastructure sectors of the economy and what […]
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WeaponsU.S. Expends Most Long-Range Standoff Munitions in Weeks in CSIS Wargames of Hypothetical Conflict with China
Three weeks of a war with China would expend or exceed all or nearly all of the U.S. military’s inventory of long-range standoff munitions, according to recent wargames by the […]
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Air ForceAs Safety Measure, F-35 Program Orders Fleet Retrofit to Mitigate ‘Harmonic Resonance’
The F-35 Joint Program Office (JPO) has directed a fleetwide retrofit for Lockheed Martin [LMT] F-35As, Bs, and Cs to mitigate any future “harmonic resonance,” which may increase stress on […]
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Advanced / Transformational TechnologyRaytheon Technologies Invests In Hyper-Resolution Radar Company
Neural Propulsion Systems (NPS), a small company developing hyper-resolution radar technology for autonomous vehicles and other applications, said on Thursday it has received a strategic investment from Raytheon Technologies [RTX] […]
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CyberRegulation, Liability, National Power Tools Feature In New National Cybersecurity Strategy
The Biden administration on Thursday released a new National Cybersecurity Strategy that builds on work of previous administrations but goes in new directions in several areas including calling for expanding […]
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