NAVSYS has been awarded a contract under the Air Force Research Lab’s (AFRL) Commercial Alternative Positioning, Navigation and Timing for RAPID (CAPR) program to develop and mature key elements of […]
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Leidos milestone in hypersonic system development + completes key reviews
Leidos (NYSE:LDOS) has successfully completed two key reviews for the Air Force Research Laboratory’s (AFRL) cutting-edge air-breathing hypersonic system, Mayhem. Completion of the two reviews—conceptual design review and system requirements […]
U.S. Space Force awards $14.49 million contract to Rocket Lab for Space Test Program-30
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) announces its award of a $14.49 million task order from the U.S. Space Force (USSF) to launch an Electron mission from Launch Complex 2. […]
Parsons to continue R&D U.S.A.F support via a million$$ task order
Parsons Corporation (NYSE: PSN) has been awarded a $28 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to provide intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) command and control (C&C) and space software baselines for the Air […]
Viasat wins Northrop Grumman contract for U.S.A.F. commercial space internet experiments
Viasat, Inc. (NASDAQ: VSAT) was recently awarded a contract from Northrop Grumman to support the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) initiative, called the Defense Experimentation Using Commercial Space Internet […]
GA-ASI completes the 1st flight of the XQ-67A OBSS
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) flew the XQ-67A Off-Board Sensing Station (OBSS) for the first time on February 28, 2024 — OBSS is an Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) program […]
Hughes to support SES Space & Defense’s + AFRL’s DEUCSI program
Hughes Network Systems, LLC (HUGHES), an EchoStar company (Nasdaq: SATS), has been awarded by SES Space & Defense, a wholly owned subsidiary of SES, a contract to provide a flexible, software-defined, […]
Advanced Aircraft Company receives million$+ AFRL + AFWERX contract for tactical UAS testing
Advanced Aircraft Company has been selected by AFRL and AFWERX for a Direct-to-Phase II contract in the amount of $1.25 million to focus on the company’s Hybrid Advanced Multirotor Unmanned […]
AFWERX + Department of Air Force award Qrypt with STTR Phase 1 Contract
Qrypt has been selected by AFWERX for an STTR Phase 1 contract that is focused on the company’s quantum-secure encryption solution to address the most pressing challenges in the Department […]
AFRL’s Oracle systems family developing nation’s 1st cislunar SSA capabilities
Over the last several years, the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) unveiled two programs — Defense Deep Space Sentinel (D2S2) and Oracle to develop cislunar space situational awareness (SSA) capabilities. […]