Cobham Advanced Electronics Solutions is working with its partners to enhance the U.S. Navy’s surface-ship electronic warfare capability through its work on the Surface Electronic Warfare Improvement Program (Sewip), says Vice President Terry McKnight.
ALCORE INC. has BOEING contract for nonmetallic honeycomb core floor panel bonded assemblies for V-22 tiltrotor program. AGUSTAWESTLAND conducted first flight of first of 16 AW101 helicopters for Norwegian Ministry of Justice and Public Security at company’s Yeovil, U.K., factory on March 21. SYPRIS ELECTRONICS, LLC has subcontract from SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORP. for design and development of modernized Missile Electronic Encryption Device (MEED) for controlling access to U.S. intercontinental ballistic missile silos.
New Jersey-based Stevens Institute of Technology has received a $2.75 million award from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to support a multi-year program to develop and deploy a system of sensors to defeat small and medium unmanned aircraft systems. The DHS Science &Technology Directorate’s Center of Excellence for Maritime Security at Stevens will develop a test bed and demonstrate an acoustic sensor solution for the protection of critical infrastructure and public events.
NASA managers underestimated the complexity of writing ground-system software upgrades for next-generation launchers and spacecraft at Kennedy Space Center (KSC) a decade ago, leading to technical difficulties and cost overruns today, the agency’s Inspector General reported March 28.
Following its demonstrations of delivering car parts in New Zealand and medical supplies in rural Virginia, Australian startup Flirtey has completed the first FAA-approved package delivery by unmanned aircraft to a house.
Five years ago, the FAA forecast the number of small unmanned aerial systems (UAS) operating in U.S. airspace would grow to 25,000 by 2020 and 30,000 by 2030.
The U.S. Navy is developing an extensive set of equipment to test in an F-18 aircraft – including an upgraded oxygen monitor sensor – to address cockpit breathing issues.
India is looking to sign a long-term maintenance agreement with Russian Helicopters to provide after-sales service for the country’s Mi-17 helicopters.
As it pursues plans to build a low-boom supersonic X-plane, NASA is testing an air-data probe that could be used to measure the intensity of shockwaves from aircraft, to improve design tools and reduce sonic boom loudness.
The U.S. Air Force is requesting information from industry on technologies that could produce lower-cost engines for future subsonic “Group 5” unmanned aircraft systems.
EA-18G Growler acquisition costs increased $1.3 billion to $15.7 billion, or about 8.9%, due primarily to a $751.5 million charge for an additional seven aircraft.
U.S. Naval Forces Europe-Africa has established a new command — Commander, Task Force 64 (CTF64) — focused on ballistic missile defense (BMD) in Europe.
U.S. services’ plans to fly the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter for longer than originally intended have pushed up the estimated total program cost, according to the Pentagon’s latest selected acquisition report (SAR).
The U.S. Navy has already started working on ship changes and control station adaptations for the Carrier Based Aerial Refueling System (Cbars), according to a recent U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) report.
The U.S. Army has begun firing different missile interceptors from a ground launcher designed by the service itself under what it says is “the first development of a major acquisition program by the organic government industrial base in 30 years.”
