Hubble Uncovers Concentration of Small Black Holes
Astronomers found something they weren't expecting at the heart of the globular cluster NGC 6397: a concentration of smaller black holes lurking there instead of one massive black hole. Globular...
View ArticleNASA's TESS Discovers New Worlds in a River of Young Stars
Using observations from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has discovered a trio of hot worlds larger than Earth orbiting a much younger version...
View ArticleNuclear Propulsion Could Help Get Humans to Mars Faster
As NASA’s Perseverance rover homes in on the Red Planet, engineers on the ground are furthering potential propulsion technologies for the first human missions to Mars. NASA is looking at two types of...
View ArticleRheinmetall Modernizing 27 More Boxer Command Vehicles for the Bundeswehr
Rheinmetall is currently bringing another 27 Boxer command vehicles of the Bundeswehr up to the latest A2 standard. Germany’s Federal Office for Bundeswehr Equipment, Information Technology and...
View ArticleJordan - F-16 Air Combat Training Center
The State Department has made a determination approving a possible Foreign Military Sale to the Government of Jordan of an F-16 Air Combat Training Center and related equipment for an estimated cost of...
View ArticleUSMC Awards BAE $184M for Additional ACVs
BAE Systems has received a $184 million contract option from the U.S. Marine Corps for more Amphibious Combat Vehicles (ACV) under full-rate production. The order demonstrates the Marine Corps’...
View ArticleNGC Demos C2 Success in Multinational NATO Exercise
Northrop Grumman Corporation’s (NYSE: NOC) UK team successfully demonstrated its innovative command and control (C2) system in a denied satellite communications (SATCOM) environment during NATO’s...
View ArticleISS Tests Virus-fighting Surface Coating Developed by Boeing, University of...
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) are conducting experiments with an antimicrobial surface coating designed to fight the spread of bacteria and viruses, including the Earth-bound...
View ArticleBAE Backs Local Tech Company With Global Defence Capability
World leading 3D volumetric display technology developed by South Australian company Voxon Photonics has won new work with BAE Systems’ UK based submarine business and the Australian based Hunter Class...
View ArticleThales and Airbus Selected by DGA to Upgrade France's Joint EW Capabilities
The French defence procurement agency (DGA) has awarded Thales and Airbus a contract for the new joint tactical signals intelligence (SIGINT) system to upgrade the French forces' critical signals...
View ArticleVolaris Taps P&W GTF Engines to Power an Additional 80 Airbus A320neo Family...
Pratt & Whitney, a division of Raytheon Technologies Corp. (NYSE: RTX), and Volaris announced the selection of the Pratt & Whitney GTF engine to power an additional 80 A320neo family aircraft....
View ArticleNorway Upgrades the NASAMS Air Defence System
The upgrade of the NASAMS Sentinel radar’s Identification Friend or Foe (IFF) ensures the system operates in accordance with future NATO standards, further improving the already secure identification...
View ArticleSAS Expands LEAP-powered Fleet with New Engine Order, Services Agreement
Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) has selected CFM International LEAP-1A engines to power 35 additional A320neo family aircraft. The order, which includes eight spare engines and a Rate Per Flight Hour...
View ArticleKBR Wins $92.6M Contract to Reinforce the US Navy's C-UAS, Strengthens...
KBR (NYSE: KBR) won a $92.6 million contract to perform engineering, integration and sustainment services on counter unmanned air systems (C-UAS) for the Combat Integration & Identification Systems...
View ArticleNGC Successfully Conducted Major Milestone for GBSD Program
Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) successfully conducted its first major design review event for the Ground Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD) engineering and manufacturing development (EMD)...
View ArticleUS Army Selects LM to Integrate and Test Combat Vehicle Protection System
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) will soon begin supporting formal integration and testing of the U.S. Army’s combat vehicle protection system intended to keep warfighters safer and more secure from...
View ArticleSEOPS-3 / NG-15 To Launch This Weekend
Spaceflight works with a wide range of launch providers to get our customer satellites on orbit, but the satellites onboard Northrop Grumman’s Antares rocket are one of our more unique deployments. Our...
View ArticleEgypt - Rolling Airframe Missiles (RAM) Block 2 Tactical Missiles
The State Department has made a determination approving a possible Foreign Military Sale to the Government of Egypt of Rolling Airframe Missiles (RAM) Block 2 Tactical Missiles and related equipment...
View ArticleNASA's Next Mars Rover Is Ready for the Most Precise Landing Yet
What to expect when the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover arrives at the Red Planet on Feb. 18, 2021. With about 2.4 million miles (3.9 million kilometers) left to travel in space, NASA’s Mars 2020...
View ArticleDynCorp International Awarded UH-60 Contractor Logistics Support Services...
On Dec. 15, the Army Contracting Command, Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, awarded DynCorp International (DI) a task order to provide UH-60 Contractor Logistics Support (CLS) under the Worldwide Logistics...
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