Aussie-Japanese UUVs? The Australian Defense ministry said it signed a bilateral research agreement with Japan focused on undersea autonomy. The agreement is between Australia’s Defense Science and Technology Group and Japan’s Acquisition, Technology and Logistics Agency. The Australian ...

The acting commandant of the Marine Corps on Thursday confirmed the service has kept its fleet of MV-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft grounded due to a deadly November mishap, but he is confident they are a good platform. In December, the Department of the Navy grounded all V-22 Ospreys across the ...

The Navy this month issued a second Request For Information (RFI) seeking market research on interest on the future development and production phases for the Future B-band Radar (FXR). This follow a previous January 2022 RFI notice that said the FXR project seeks to provide horizon search and ...

Summit Technologies Inc., Navarre, Florida, has been awarded a $40,000,000 ceiling, single-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for mission planning support services. This contract provides for continued mission planning support of mission planning systems consisting of ...

Lockheed Martin Corp. Rotary Mission System, Stratford, Connecticut, was awarded a $24,469,490 sole-source, firm-fixed-price contract modification (P00245) to the previously awarded contract FA8629-14-C-2403 for follow-on interim contractor support and it includes requirements for sustainment ...

Japan’s Ministry of Defense said it signed a Letter of Offer and Acceptance (LOA) for RTX [RTX] Tomahawk land attack cruise missiles and related equipment under a Foreign Military Sales (FMS) agreement. Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida signed the LOA with Defense Minister Minoru Kihara and ...

Drone Connectivity. A General Atomics MQ-20 Avenger demonstrated “hardware-agnostic, open standard-based autonomy” for Unmanned Combat Air Vehicles (UCAVs) in a flight test on Nov. 13, the company said this week, through the use of three software-defined radios (SDRs) by L3Harris Technologies ...

Northrop Grumman [NOC] and Mitsubishi Electric Corporation signed a teaming agreement to collaborate on creating a networking solution for Japan’s ground-based integrated air and missile defense systems, the companies said on Jan. 16. In the announcement, the companies said they will “combine ...

The Pentagon is interested in leveraging industry work on concepts for refueling satellites in space, a DoD official said on Jan. 17. The concept of dynamic space operations is "realistic because the commercial sector is developing ways to refuel in space, and this is mostly for the geosynchronous ...

The final Navy Overlord Unmanned Surface Vessel, the Vanguard (OUSV3), was recently launched from shipbuilder Austal USA’s shipyard in Mobile, Ala., the Navy said on Jan. 11. The Vanguard is being built by Austal USA under prime contractor for the Navy L3Harris Technologies [LHX]. While the ...