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SpacePentagon Says SDA Meeting Minimum Viable Product, But GAO Notes Problems
DoD says that the U.S. Space Force’s Space Development Agency (SDA) has met the “minimum viable product” (MVP) standard for the agency’s Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture Tranche 0 Transport Layer […]
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Unmanned SystemsNavy Issues RFI Survey For More Counter-Uncrewed Systems
The Navy on Wednesday issued a Request for Information (RFI) survey to find a wider range of low collateral defeat (LCD) Counter Uncrewed Systems (C-UXS) solutions. According to the notice, […]
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Business/FinancialKratos And RAFAEL Partner To Join Growing Field Of Rocket Motor Makers
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions [KTOS] and Israel’s RAFAEL Defense Systems on Wednesday said they have formed a joint venture to become a U.S.-based merchant supplier of solid rocket motors […]
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Air ForceUSAF Force Structure to Achieve Air Superiority ‘In Multiple Ways’
The Department of the Air Force’s future force structure will not be one that relies wholly on standoff and will achieve air superiority “in multiple ways,” a service official said […]
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Air ForceIs There a Need for New ICBM Siloes for Sentinel?
Will the U.S. Air Force need to build new ICBM “launch facilities”–siloes–to accommodate the LGM-35A Sentinel? “Looks to me like they’re going to have to,” says Sen. Angus King (I-Me.), […]
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UncategorizedFleischmann Cites ‘Workforce Shortage’ in NNSA, but Oak Ridge Unaffected By Firings
Rep. Chuck Fleischmann (R-Tenn.), whose district abuts Y-12 National Security Complex and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, said Tuesday the nuclear enterprise was facing a “workforce shortage.” Fleischmann, who chairs a […]
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UncategorizedActing NNSA Head Says Unfired Employees Have Been Contacted, Returned to Work
Teresa Robbins, acting administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration, told sister publication The Exchange Monitor Tuesday that everyone whose firing was rescinded at the agency was successfully contacted and has […]
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GeneralBWXT Earnings Buoyed By Weapons Complex Wins, Nuclear Power
Earnings rose at BWX Technologies [BWXT] in the fourth quarter, and 2024 as a whole, which the company chalked up partly to Department of Energy contracts and rising interest in […]
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Air ForceRTX’s Collins Aerospace Gets Award for ACES II for F-15EX
RTX‘s [RTX] Collins Aerospace said on Tuesday that it has received an award from Boeing [BA] for Advanced Concept Ejection Seat IIs (ACES IIs) for the U.S. Air Force’s two-seat […]
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CongressGive Large, Non-Defense U.S. Manufacturers ‘A Shot’ at New Programs, Feinberg Says
Simplifying DoD program requirements as part of an effort to spur more companies to make defense systems is a priority for Stephen Feinberg, the co-founder of Cerberus Capital Management and […]
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