BAE Angles For GPS M-Code Market
"These GPS receivers provide secure and resilient position data that can help our PGMs be more precise," explains BAE spokesperson Mark Daly.
Post-Merger, Raytheon Intel & Space Sees Role Gluing Together JADC2
"We're positioning ourselves where we're going to be agnostic in terms of material solutions," says President Roy Azevedo, instead focusing on architectural solutions to customer problems.
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Pratt & Whitney Enters Incubator Biz To Slash Development Time in Half
As the Pentagon and the defense industry rush to keep up with the shift to great power competition and the fight for tech workers rushing for Silicon Valley, the idea of technology incubators is catching fire.
Northrop Flies, Tests New Sensor, The MS-177 On Global Hawk
ORLANDO: After much rescheduling and years of skepticism, Northrop Grumman took a step toward finally replacing the revered but aging U-2 spy plane with its Global Hawk drone on Feb. 8, when it flew with and tested UTC’s MS-177 multispectral sensor, which is intended to enable the drone to surpass the legendary U-2. The day before the […]
Lockheed Bids $9B For Sikorsky; May Spin Off IT, Tech Services
WASHINGTON: Lockheed Martin’s planned purchase of Sikorsky Aircraft, the biggest U.S. helicopter manufacturer, is a natural fit that will mean a lot more to buyer Lockheed and seller United Technologies Corp. than it will for the military rotorcraft industry, present or future. Here’s why. First, the two companies have worked together on military helicopter programs for decades. […]
Pratt Pleads Guilty To Illegal Weapons Sale To Chinese; UTC Parent Coughs Up $75M
WASHINGTON: Just when United Technologies’s Pratt & Whitney subsidiary seemed to have put the troubles with its F135 engine for the Joint Strike fighter behind it, there comes news that the company violated the so-called Tianamen sanctions and illegally sold engine control software to China for use in an attack helicopter. Perhaps worse than the […]
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Defense Companies Must Do More Than Lobby Against Cuts
This time it’s different. For more than a year, defense companies have taken measured steps to prepare for defense spending budget cuts. Many pruned corporate spending, sending fewer executives to foreign air shows. Some, like Lockheed Martin Corp., even offered sweeping buyouts. Others even sold off headache-causing businesses, as Northrop Grumman Corp. did by spinning […]