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Forging Industry Wants DoD And Primes To Know It Has Capacity To Meet Demand
Despite misgivings from the defense industry and the Defense Department about U.S. capacity to produce forged parts for aircraft, ordnance, tanks, and submarines, the domestic supply chain has more than […]
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Nuclear Modernization
Nuclear Weapons Agency, Environmentalists Get More Time to Negotiate Agreement After Government Loses Lawsuit
A judge Monday granted an extension for parties involved in a three year-old lawsuit against the Department of Energy to reach a compromise, a court document shows. The new due […]
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Army
Northrop Grumman To Unveil New Dual-Feed M230 Chain Gun, Eyes Demos In 2025
Northrop Grumman [NOC] will unveil a new dual-feed version of its M230LF Bushmaster chain next week, with plans to conduct initial live-fire demonstrations for potential customers in 2025. John McCollum, […]
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Weapons
Anduril Discloses $250 Million DoD Air Defense Contract For Roadrunner, EW Systems To Defeat UAS
Anduril Industries on Tuesday said it has received a $250 million Defense Department contract to deliver more than 500 munition variants of its Roadrunner autonomous air vehicle (AAV) and an […]
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Business/Financial
Private Equity Firm Acquires Sabre Systems
CM Equity Partners in late September acquired the cybersecurity and digital solutions company Sabre Systems, adding to its portfolio of defense and federal services companies. Terms of the deal were […]
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Space
PDR for FOO Fighter Done, Millennium Says
Boeing‘s [BA] Millennium Space Systems in El Segundo, Calif., said on Monday that it has finished preliminary design review (PDR) of the company’s low Earth orbit Fire-control On Orbit-support-to-the-war Fighter […]
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Business/Financial
Second Front’s Game Warden Available on ICMP, Company Says
Wilmington, Del.-based Second Front Systems said on Monday that its Game Warden DevSecOps platform to approve commercial software up to top secret classification is available on Amazon Web Services‘ [AMZN] […]
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Nuclear Modernization
NNSA ‘Diamond-Stamped’ First Plutonium Pit For W87-1 Warhead
The National Nuclear Security Administration on Tuesday finished its First Production Unit of a plutonium pit for the planned W87-1 warhead, an agency press release said. The National Nuclear Security […]
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Space
ULA’s Second Vulcan Mission a Success, Despite Booster Anomaly
United Launch Alliance (ULA) launched the second Vulcan rocket on Friday morning. While ULA reported the launch was successful, it also reported an “observation” on one of the solid rocket boosters. […]
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Space Development Agency Issues Acquistion Planning Guidance For Tranche 3
The U.S. Space Force’s Space Development Agency (SDA) on Wednesday posted high-level acquisition guidance for its third tranche of communications and missile tracking satellites slated to be launched into low-Earth […]
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