Boeing Promoting Phantom Eye Drone as Comm Relay Hub; Keith Monteith Comments
April 9, 2013 No Comment
Boeing is rebranding a hydrogen-powered drone it unveiled in 2010 as a relay station intended to support remote communications between U.S. Navy ships. The company built Phantom Eye with 150-foot wingspan, 10,000 pounds total takeoff weight, 450-pound payload capacity and two four-cylinder engines producing 150 horsepower each, Wired reported Tuesday. Spencer Ackerman writes the company is [...]
Continue reading …
Raytheon has developed a fuel tank and delivery system for a U.S. Navy weapon system intended to attack maritime targets and still land targets during anti-surface warfare missions. The company integrated a fuel tank into the Joint Standoff Weapon for a test to evaluate the weapon’s end-to-end operations and flight range, Raytheon said Tuesday. According [...]
Continue reading …
Boeing Completes Design Review of NASA Crew Capsule Launch Adapter; John Mulholland Comments
April 8, 2013 No CommentThe Boeing Company has completed the preliminary design review of the CST-100‘s launch vehicle adapter, according to a NASA statement. The adapter would connect Boeing’s CST-100 crew capsule to its rocket. The launch vehicle adapter was designed by the United Launch Alliance and connected to the ULA’s Atlas V rocket that will launch the CST-100. John [...]
Continue reading …
Kratos Subsidiary Rolling Out New Command, Control Software; John Monahan Comments
April 5, 2013 No Comment
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions subsidiary RT Logic has unveiled new front-end processor and gateway products intended as new hardware for satellite control facilities. The software-only products will be on exhibit at the National Space Symposium in Colorado Springs, Colo. and are intended to consolidate space, Kratos said Thursday. Kratos says legacy systems use physical [...]
Continue reading …
Lockheed Martin is holding a series of tests to evaluate an updated missile defense system the company is building for the U.S. Navy. Four additional live firing exercises will be completed aboard the USS Chancellorsville will host four live firing exercises before the ship starts combat system qualification trials later this year, Lockheed said Thursday. [...]
Continue reading …
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions has won an $11.5 million contract to manufacture products for an unmanned aerial systems program. The company’s unmanned systems solutions division will process the “specialty product orders” for an unidentified customer at its facilities, Kratos said Wednesday. Primary end customers are national security-related agencies and the USS division focuses on [...]
Continue reading …
Lockheed Martin has won a $6.6 million contract extension from the U.S. Defense Department to continue helping operate two K-Max unmanned aircraft systems, AviationToday.com reported Monday. Work on the project will occur through September outside the continental U.S. and at the Naval Air Systems Command’s base in Patuxent River, Md., according to the report. The [...]
Continue reading …
Lockheed Martin has completed a series of surveillance tests on gyro-based optical sensors with the U.S. Navy as the company and branch aim to deploy the sensors for all military operations. Sailors at the Navy’s Expeditionary Combat Command sailors evaluated the abilities of both the Gyrocam 15-inch dual sensor and 15-inch triple sensor to track [...]
Continue reading …
Raytheon has won $38.9 million in contracts to provide support and munitions to the Department of Defense, according to an article published on Saturday. The contracts include a $7.5 million firm-fixed-price modification to Raytheon’s previous deal on integrated defense systems unit and a $31.4 million order for guided bomb units, Rich Smith writes. The company [...]
Continue reading …
Lockheed Martin has completed the first guided test flight of a missile interceptor intended to counter adversarial rocket, artillery and mortars by using a radar to track the threat while in flight. The Extended Area Protection and Survivability Program test on Friday at White Sands Missile Range, N.M. was intended to evaluate the interceptor’s seeker, [...]
Continue reading …