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Air ForceAFRL Bandit Adversary Air Program Ground Tests New Propulsion System by Blue Force Technologies
North Carolina’s Blue Force Technologies said on Jan. 25 that it has ground tested a “novel carbon fiber composite propulsion flowpath system” for the small business’ Fury unmanned fighter under […]
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Navy/USMCDOT&E Warns Super Hornet Sensor Pod Schedule Does Not Allow Time For Deficiency Resolution Before Testing
The Navy’s top weapons tester warned the service’s proposed schedule for operational testing of the new F/A-18E/F Super Hornet centerline pod sensor with a fire control system does not allow […]
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Nuclear ModernizationSRS Planning Efforts Underway For Transfer to NNSA
Feds at the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina are busy planning to transfer responsibility for the complex to DoE’s nuclear weapons office from the cleanup branch […]
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Business/FinancialCommercial Aerospace Boosts Raytheon Technologies In Second Quarter; Realigning Defense Business
Raytheon Technologies [RTX] on Tuesday posted higher earnings and sales in its fourth quarter and full-year driven largely by gains in its business segments supporting the commercial aerospace market while […]
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Air ForceConversion of Minuteman III Silos to Sentinel to Take Lessons from Promontory, Utah Work
The conversion of 450 LGM-30 Minuteman III ICBM silos to accomodate the Northrop Grumman [NOC] LGM-35A Sentinel is to draw lessons from recent work done by the Northrop Grumman team […]
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SpaceSDA Renames LEO Constellation to Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture
The Space Development Agency (SDA) has renamed its proliferated Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) constellation as the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture, or PWSA. SDA announced the change on Monday, changing the name from the […]
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Air ForceAt Least Three-Year Delay Foreseen in Fielding of Smart Fuze for GBU-57
The U.S. Air Force has delayed by at least three years the fielding date of a smart fuze for the Boeing [BA] GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP)–a 20-foot, 30,000-pound munition […]
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Navy/USMCCNO: Next-Gen Navy Programs Order To Be New Fighters, Destroyers, Then Attack Subs
The Navy is sequencing its next-generation acquisition programs in the 2030s as the Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) new fighter, DDG(X) new destroyer, then the SSN(X) new attack submarine, the […]
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Business/FinancialAfter FLRAA Win, Textron Shifts Atherton To New COO Role At Bell; Hammoor To Lead Systems
Following Textron’s [TXT] win in December of a marquis next-generation Army aircraft program, the company on Thursday named Lisa Atherton as the chief operating officer of the company’s Bell segment, […]
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Navy/USMCNavy Experiments Put MUSVs On Firmer Setting
Experiments with Medium Unmanned Surface Vessels (MUSVs) have helped push the Navy to more securely see the value in the vessels as “advantageous” going forward, a service officer said last […]
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