Curtiss-Wright said on September 1 that it had received an approximately $14 million contract from Northrop Grumman to supply sensor-processing equipment for the U.S. Army’s Improved Threat Detection System.
Eighty-one years after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, the lineage of the 509th Composite Group remains part of America’s modern nuclear deterrence mission.
The U.S. Department of War plans an estimated $174 million equity investment in a new gallium production facility at Alcoa’s Wagerup alumina refinery in Australia.
Sandia National Laboratories has completed a sounding rocket test to collect reentry vibration data for the W93 warhead program, giving engineers measured conditions for the design of its nonnuclear components.
The U.S. Army is turning to a FedEx Dataworks-led team and Google’s secure cloud infrastructure to modernize its domestic non-tactical logistics network.
The U.S. Department of War has signed framework agreements with General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems and Lockheed Martin to expand production capacity for two major air and missile defense programs.
U.S., British and Norwegian forces have deployed to Norway’s remote Jan Mayen island for an ongoing test of integrated operations in the High North.
L3Harris Technologies said it demonstrated an integrated mission network that connected threat detection, joint-force communications and coordinated battlefield response during the U.S. Army’s Lightning Surge exercises.
.S. Marine Corps F-35C Lightning II fighters and U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptors operated together against complex air-defense threats during Red Flag-Alaska 26-3.
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Low-observable technology allows the B-2 Spirit to penetrate sophisticated air defences and operate against heavily protected targets.
At the center of the upgrade is the AN/SPY-6(V)1 Air and Missile Defense Radar, paired with the Aegis Baseline 10 combat system.
Air Force Global Strike Command has suspended the use of AN/PRM-10 test oscillator sets after an inventory review found potential residue on six of eight systems.
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