Yearly Archive: 2022

SEOUL — South Korea’s Army has received the first batch of new homegrown 120-mm self-propelled mortar systems to replace existing decades-old mortars, the state arms procurement agency said Friday.

The latest systems will supplant the Army’s aging 4.2-inch mortars that have been in service for …

The National Security Space Launch (NSSL) is a U.S. government program that acquires launch services, aimed at ensuring continued access to space for critical national security missions.

The U.S. Air Force oversaw NSSL’s predecessor program, the Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV), and awar…

MELBOURNE, Fla. — L3Harris Technologies has been selected by the U.S. Space Force to continue efforts to upgrade and modernize its space domain awareness, which is used to help combat anti-satellite threats.

The U.S. Air Force began work in 2018 to replace the Space Defense Operations Center (…

SAN DIEGO — General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) successfully tested advanced datalink capability as part of a U.S. Army-funded development effort to upgrade the MQ-1C Gray Eagle Extended Range (GE-ER) Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS).

During the December tests, the joint U.S. Army…

ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md.—- The Materials in Extreme Dynamic Environments Collaborative Research Alliance, or MEDE CRA, culminated its 10-year program with a virtual capstone event, co-hosted by the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command, known as DEVCOM, Army Research Laboratory and…

EVENDALE, Ohio — GE Aviation has selected Boeing to support flight tests of its hybrid electric propulsion system using a modified Saab 340B aircraft and CT7-9B turboprop engines.

Boeing and its subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences will provide GE Aviation with airplane modification, system integr…