The U.S. Marine Corps has determined four Tier 1 specifications for the development of a ship-based large unmanned aircraft platform for potential fielding by Marine Air Group Task Forces in 2026, Seapower Magazine reported Thursday....
The Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division used its other transaction authority to award multiple contracts to six companies to develop and test digital and radiofrequency microelectronics as part of the initial phase of the State-of-the-art Heterogeneous Integration Prototype project, Naval Sea Systems Command reported Thursday....
Dedrone has acquired the rights to Battelle’s DroneDefender counter-small unmanned aerial system and established a consultancy business unit to offer sUAS detection and mitigation support to the Department of Defense....
General Atomics' aeronautical systems business will collaborate with NASA to demonstrate a flight mission of an MQ-9B SkyGuardian remotely piloted aircraft in 2020 under a cooperative agreement....
Ellen Pawlikowski, a retired U.S. Air Force general and former head of Air Force Materiel Command, has joined communications satellite services provider Intelsat as an independent member of its board of directors....
Joseph Brendler, a retired U.S. Army major general, has joined the senior advisory board of information technology firm Ultimate Knowledge....
Chemring Group's ordnance business and Ensign-Bickford Industries' aerospace and defense subsidiary have won spots on a five-year, $320M contract to provide explosive line charge systems designed to help U.S. Army personnel breach enemy's minefields and wire obstacles....
A second GPS III satellite that Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) built for the U.S. Air Force has responded to commands and used an internal propulsion system while cruising toward its operational orbit....
Margaret Dean, a 26-year U.S. Navy veteran and formerly strategic adviser for the asymmetric operations sector at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, has assumed new roles as chief government relations officer and secretary of the board of managers at APL....
Chris Bogdan, senior vice president of aerospace business at Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH), told Defense One in an interview published Thursday that the company aims to secure a contract to develop ground data stations for the U.S. Air Force’s new missile warning satellites....
