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By Jen DiMascio
The Space Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center has awarded two contracts worth up to $500 million each to Raytheon and L3Harris Technologies to develop and produce new, secure modems.
Space Symposium

By Michael Bruno
Avcorp returned to its financial sponsor in early March to significantly increase a credit line, company representatives acknowledged Mar. 31.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Lee Hudson
Over the next three to six months, the Department of the Air Force is transferring 23 missions from the U.S. Air Force to the Space Force, expanding the nascent service’s responsibilities.
Space Symposium

By Lee Hudson
The U.S. Navy has awarded Boeing a $1.5 billion production contract for 18 P-8A Poseidon aircraft.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Graham Warwick
Swedish startup Liquid Wind has announced plans to build a series of commercial-scale, renewable-fuel plants across Scandinavia.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Michael Bruno
Aerospace and defense manufacturers and suppliers looking to tap the U.S. government’s new coronavirus-related treasure trove of loans and guarantees will first have to show they could not find financing elsewhere, and they must not lay off more than 10% of their workforce through September.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Jen DiMascio
Lockheed Martin says it is taking the final steps to ensure that the jam-resistant Military Code (M-Code) signal for GPS satellites is declared operational this year.
Space Symposium

By Lee Hudson
April will serve as a milestone month for the nascent U.S. Space Force. Not only will the new acquisition council meet for the first time, the service will also submit recommendations to the chief on unified missile warning architecture.
Space

By Lee Hudson
The U.S. State Department has green lighted a potential $194 million sale that would allow South Korea to upgrade its F-16 Block 32 aircraft with identification friend-or-foe (IFF) and other advanced systems.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Saab is developing a containerized battle-damage repair system for its Gripen combat aircraft that will use additive manufacturing to get aircraft back in the air.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Michael Bruno
United Technologies and Raytheon said March 30 they received the necessary antitrust and other regulatory approvals to complete their merger, and that their newly combined company should be born April 3.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Lee Hudson
Complying with COVID-19 safety guidelines, the House Armed Services Committee is delaying its previously scheduled markup of the fiscal 2021 defense authorization bill.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Mark Carreau
The water that appears to have once flowed and pooled abundantly on Mars likely came from at least two sources during the Solar System’s early planet-forming epoch, a study says.
Space

By Tony Osborne
The Balkan state of North Macedonia has joined NATO, the 30th nation to come under the alliance’s defensive umbrella. Skopje’s joining was confirmed on March 30, as the country’s flag was raised outside NATO headquarters in Brussels.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Irene Klotz
OneWeb Satellites said March 30 it is temporarily furloughing an undisclosed number of employees at its Titusville, Florida, manufacturing facility, citing slowing supply chains and travel disruptions due to the spread of COVID-19.
Space Symposium

By Thierry Dubois
Safran is facing a drop in production capacity as it struggles to keep factories operating despite the combination of logistics and human resources problems due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Marketplace

By Mark Carreau
Among four astrophysics mission finalists recently selected for potential funding by NASA is the LargE Area burst Polarimeter, a low-cost proposal to observe Gamma Ray Bursts from a spot on the truss of the International Space Station.
Space

By Tony Osborne
Italian aerospace and defense company Leonardo is providing Italian state authorities access to fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters that the company normally uses for flight trials as Italy fights to deal with the novel coronavirus pandemic.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Dornier Seawings has completed the first flight of its new-generation Dornier Seastar amphibious aircraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Lee Hudson
The U.S. Space Force is assisting in the nation’s effort to combat the novel coronavirus by providing additional bandwidth to the USNS Mercy (T-AH-19) hospital ship that arrived in Los Angeles March 27.
Space Symposium

Selected U.S. military contracts for March 23 U.S. ARMY Southwest Valley Constructors, Albuquerque, New Mexico, has been awarded a $524,000,000
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