Stinger Missiles with Proximity Fuzes Destroy UAVs (Learn More, Video)

During a recent Army test, a pair of Raytheon Stinger anti-air missiles equipped with new proximity fuzes intercepted two small unmanned airborne systems—an MQM-170C Outlaw and an unidentified smaller system—for the...

USAF Awards Lockheed Martin $413M for JASSM-ER Production

Lockheed Martin has received a $413.8 million contract from the U.S. Air Force for Lot 15 production of the Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile (JASSM)-Extended Range (ER) version. The Lot 15 contract includes 360...

SAIC Awarded $620M Contract by NASA Goddard (Multi-Video)

NASA has awarded Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) an indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract to provide multidiscipline engineering support services to the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. The single-award contract has a...

AOX Awarded WFIRST Contract from NASA (Learn More, Multi-Video)

Adaptive Optics Associates (AOX), has been awarded a sole-source contract to provide mission-critical optical technology for the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) coronagraph instrument. The AOX team successfully completed the preliminary...

SkyX Systems Deploys First ‘xStation’ (See in Action, Multi-Video)

SkyX, the Canadian leader in long-range unmanned aerial monitoring, has successfully delivered and installed its first production xStation, a unit that remotely recharges SkyX drones during missions - a key milestone in...

APKWS Rockets Meet Growing Precision Weapons Demand (Videos)

The U.S. Navy has awarded BAE Systems a $180.5 million contract to continue producing Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System (APKWSTM) laser-guided rockets to meet the growing U.S. and international demand for...

USAF Selects Engility to Conduct Risk Assessments on Space Sys

Engility has won a $42 million task order from the U.S. Air Force to advise and assist their Space and Missile Systems Engineering Directorate at Los Angeles Air Force Base to...

PivotPoint’s SafetyML Training Safeguards Safety-Critical Systems

PivotPoint Technology, introduces the SafetyML™ (Safety Modeling Language™) and Model-Based Functional Safety (MBFS) training for specifying the analyses, designs and architectures of safety-critical systems. The SafetyML v. 1.0 is an OMG UML™ and...

NASA Team Successfully Tests Orion Launch Abort Motor (See in Action)

Orbital ATK, NASA and Lockheed Martin, have successfully performed a ground firing test of the abort motor for NASA’s Orion spacecraft Launch Abort System (LAS) at Orbital ATK’s facility in Promontory,...

Russians Exposed New Military Satellites: Error or Intention?

IHS Markit has a report identifying what appears to be a previously unknown Russian military satellite program. On 6 June, a delegation headed by Russian Minister of Defense (MoD) Sergei Shoigu visited the...