Yearly Archive: 2020

Norway Plugs into Global F135 Engine MRO Network

Norway Plugs into Global F135 Engine MRO Network

Norway-based Kongsberg Aviation Maintenance Services (KAMS) has officially opened its F135 engine maintenance depot in Rygge, after signing a contract with Pratt & Whitney.

The depot is now in the activation and training stage, in advance of initial depot operating capability which is planned for…

Northrop Supports US Missile Defense Agency Flight Test

Northrop Supports US Missile Defense Agency Flight Test

CHANDLER, Ariz. — The Missile Defense Agency successfully intercepted a Northrop Grumman Corporation built Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) target that was launched during a flight test from the Reagan Test Site in the Kwajalein Atoll.

FTM-44 satisfies a Congressional mandate to demons…

Russian Cosmodrome Works Up for New Angara Space Launcher

Russian Cosmodrome Works Up for New Angara Space Launcher

During a working trip to the Plesetsk cosmodrome, the Minister of Defence of the Russian Federation General of the Army Sergei Shoigu noted that from 2025 the cosmodrome will be able to perform up to 20 launches of the Angara launch vehicle per year. This will ensure guaranteed independent access an…
Leonardo and Lacroix to Cooperate on Naval Countermeasures

Leonardo and Lacroix to Cooperate on Naval Countermeasures

ROME — Leonardo and Lacroix have signed a strategic agreement which will see the partners working together to develop and integrate solutions in the naval countermeasures sector. The collaboration, which will look towards new technologies as well as new business opportunities, initially provides f…
Raytheon Awarded Phase 2 Contract Under DARPA’s ACK Program

Raytheon Awarded Phase 2 Contract Under DARPA’s ACK Program

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Raytheon Intelligence & Space, a Raytheon Technologies business, has been awarded a $4 million Phase 2 contract under the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency’s Adapting Cross-Domain Kill-Webs, or ACK, program after a successful Phase 1 demonstration.

Under ACK Phase 1, …

BAE Wins Certification for F-22’s IFF Transponder

BAE Wins Certification for F-22’s IFF Transponder

BAE Systems has received certification for its Identification Friend-or-Foe (IFF) transponder for the F-22 Raptor from the Department of Defense AIMS program office. The IFF transponder waveform integration is part of a U.S. Navy contract to upgrade the Multifunctional Information Distribution Syste…
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