Yearly Archive: 2020

ST. LOUIS — The U.S. Air Force is one step closer to receiving its next-generation trainer as Boeing started producing the T-7A Red Hawk’s “real-as-it-gets” ground-based training system (GBTS).

Boeing teams are currently assembling the first two weapons systems trainers and an operational fligh…

First demonstrated sixty years ago, the laser has become an essential technology in today’s world. It has transformed diverse fields including communications, sensing, manufacturing, and medicine. More recently, innovations in integrated photonics have allowed the miniaturization of key optical comp…

Every day, the operators of the Air Parachute Commando (CPA) 10, armed wing of the Air Force Special Forces, prepare for their missions. Recently, the arrival of new vehicles, the Special Patrol Vehicles 2 (VPS2) and the Polaris Quad, will optimize their operations and training.

“The added value …

The crews of the Black Sea Fleet ships in the Mediterranean have begun the new training year, performing tasks as part of a permanent grouping of ships of the Navy in the Mediterranean. The sailors took part in celebrations marking the beginning of a new training period.

In total, more than 10 …

LONDON — Northrop Grumman Corporation’s Joint Threat Emitter (JTE) was recently deployed to assist Royal Air Force (RAF), Royal Navy (RN) and U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) F-35B aircrew training as a component of Exercise Joint Warrior, the largest military exercise in Europe.

JTE is a mobile air de…

ARLINGTON, Virginia — Raytheon Intelligence & Space, a Raytheon Technologies business, was awarded a multi-year $70 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract by the Naval Undersea Warfare Center to provide for test, inspection, evaluation and restoration of Submarine High-Data Rate …