Raytheon Wins AF Global Hawk Logistics Contract; Bob Busey Comments
Raytheon has won a contract to operate and maintain ground components of a U.S. Air Force‘s unmanned aircraft system for an undisclosed amount. The company will perform contractor logistics support work on RQ-4 Global Hawk drones through September 2014, Raytheon said Saturday. Work under the contract includes on-site mission control, launch and recovery support services [...]
Northrop Grumman has handed the U.S. Air Force a second payload to be installed on government-operated satellites that are designed to provide extremely high frequency protected communications in the North Pole region. The payload was developed for the U.S. Air Force‘s Enhanced Polar System and uses components originally designed for advanced EHF military communication satellites, [...]
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Lockheed Intell System Transmits Images During Air Force Exercise; Jim Quinn Comments
June 12, 2013 No Comment
Lockheed Martin helped the Air Force carry out an aerial warfare exercise intended to prepare U.S., NATO and other allied pilots for combat. The company’s Distributed Common Ground Station Imagery mobile test bed received live imagery from manned and unmanned aircraft during the Red Flag exercise, Lockheed said Tuesday. U-2 and Global Hawk aircraft transmitted the data [...]
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Lockheed Martin‘s F-35 variant for the Air Force launched a missile while in flight during a trial run over a Point Mugu, Calif. sea test range Wednesday. This represents the first time the F-35′s conventional takeoff and landing variant carried out a launch-to-eject sequence with the AIM-120 missile , the Air Force said Thursday. “It’s a testament [...]
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Lockheed Team Tests GPS III Comm Equipment, Spacecraft Bus; Keoki Jackson Comments
June 6, 2013 No Comment
A Lockheed Martin-led team has tested the network communications equipment and spacecraft bus of a satellite for an Air Force program. Team members evaluated the first GPS III space vehicle bus’ subsystems and determined they can be integrated into the satellite’s navigation payload, Lockheed said Wednesday. The Air Force intends to have 32 satellites in [...]
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MCR Federal has won a potential three-year $22 million contract to provide program management services to the U.S. Energy Department. The company will support cost analysis, scheduling and earned value management work at the Sandia National Laboratory, MCR said Monday. DOE awarded the contract as a contract purchase agreement and the company will perform work [...]
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A Boeing communications satellite for the U.S. Air Force launched into space Friday and transmitted its first on-orbit signals to controllers in Australia within the first hour of liftoff. The fifth Wideband Global SATCOM satellite is intended to help the Air Force link troops to secure communications worldwide, Boeing said Friday. WGS-5 launched from Cape [...]
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Northrop Marks 8K Intertial Navigation Systems for Customers; Gorik Hossepian Comments
May 24, 2013 No CommentNorthrop Grumman is marking the 8,000th delivery of a GPS system from its Woodland Hills, Calif. facility to customers worldwide for use in manned and unmanned aircraft and ships. More than 70 customers including the U.S. Navy and Air Force use the LN-100 on both tactical and transport aircraft and shipboard platforms, Northrop said Thursday. [...]
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Raytheon Simulates Engine Burn in GPS III Software Test; Ray Kolibaba Comments
April 30, 2013 1 Comment
Raytheon has completed a second launch readiness exercise of its operational control system to help the Air Force prepare to launch a GPS III satellite in 2014. The company simulated a liquid apogee engine burn during the three-day exercise in late February, Raytheon said Monday. Other launch readiness exercise work included evaluating the vehicle’s telemetry, maneuver [...]
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General Atomics Aeronautical Systems has developed a new cockpit ground control station intended to control the company’s Predator C Avenger drone and adapt to other remotely piloted aircraft systems. The company demonstrated the station during a flight test in November 2012 at its Palmdale, Calif. flight operations facility and aimed to use the open systems [...]
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