Northrop Grumman announced that it has completed the production of first-stage A1000 and second-stage B1000 motors for the U.S. Navy’s Trident II D5 Submarine Launched Ballistic Missile system, bringing the number of solid rocket motors the company manufactured for the program to 2,000. The Trident II D5 SLBM, a three-stage, solid-propellant, inertial-guided missile system with […]
Silvus Technologies will supply StreamCaster Prism antenna radio systems to the U.S. Army under a $5.5 million contract for the Sustainment Transport System Line-of-Sight Program. The company will deliver products integrated with Silvus’ Mobile Networked MIMO waveform technology, which is designed to provide reliable, high-bandwidth, meshed video and data communications. With multiple-input, multiple-output antenna technology, […]
Signal officers belonging to the 1st Theater Sustainment Command Operational Command Post have almost completed establishing a communication system throughout the 1st TSC Alternate Command Post. Located within the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility, the alternate command post is an air base that functions as a secondary location from which the 1st TSC OCP […]
The U.S. Army has awarded network operations software developer CodeMettle a contract to provide software licenses for the Integrated NetOps Battalion and Below program. The software will be used to field and manage disparate and interconnected radio networks. CodeMettle demonstrated its products during the Army Capability Set Operations Demonstration and Adversary Assessment. The radio network […]
Leidos subsidiary Dynetics has concluded the first launch test for the Multi-Service Advanced Capability Hypersonic Test Bed program. MACH-TB is designed to increase the speed at which commercially available hypersonic systems are tested. The program also calls on Dynetics to create an experimental glide body for data gathering and performance validation for hypersonic glide body […]
Pittsburg, Pennsylvania-based Arconic Corp. has secured a $45.5 million agreement with the Department of Defense’s Office for the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Industrial Base Policy to boost high-purity aluminum production. The DOD will use Defense Production Act Title III authorities and funding to enhance HPA production infrastructure at Arconic’s Iowa facility. The funding would […]
AFWERX has awarded CesiumAstro a $3.6 million contract to equip a General Atomics MQ-9A Reaper remotely piloted aircraft with a satellite communications terminal and demonstrate the equipment’s capability to enable high-throughput connectivity for defense applications. The award was secured after introducing a new multibeam active electronically steered array antenna that can link with satellites in […]
General Dynamics Information Technology has received a potential five-year, $383 million U.S. Navy contract for simulation and classroom training support. GDIT is expected to provide instructors, curriculum development, training aids and other services to U.S. and allied sailors. Brian Sheridan, senior vice president for defense at GDIT, noted his company’s three decades of support for […]
The Defense Information Systems Agency has opened the Orion Cyber Operations Center-Hill, a facility designed to support the agency’s command and control modernization efforts. The center will serve as a hub where Department of Defense IT network requests are load-balanced across active data centers. Since its conception, the center has helped DISA replace aging infrastructure […]
A project team investigating quantum constructs with the aim of revolutionizing precision weapons won the 2024 Applied Research for Advancement of Science and Technology Priorities program award. The Army Research Laboratory-led project team’s proposal was one of the nine submissions received by the committee for this year’s ARAP award competition. ARAP is a three-year, $45 […]
