As the Pentagon reviews key weapons programs for possible procurement changes under the Biden administration, Northrop Grumman [NOC] said it is well on its way to meeting milestones ahead of a low-rate initial production (LRIP) decision on the B-21 Raider stealth bomber---two of which are on the ...

Raytheon Technologies [RTX] started installing the first AN/SPY-6(V)1 radar on the Navy’s new Flight III Arleigh Burke-class DDG-51 Aegis destroyer, the future USS Jack H. Lucas (DDG-125), the company said on Feb. 9. The SPY-6, known as the Air and Missile Defense Radar (AMDR), aims to improve ...

The State Department approved a potential $197 million Foreign Military Sale (FMS) to Egypt for 168 RIM-116C Rolling Airframe Missiles (RAM) Block 2 tactical missiles. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) notified Congress of the sale on Tuesday. The sale includes the RAM missiles as ...

F-35A Engines. The U.S. Air Force's Air Combat Command (ACC) said that it is working with the F-35 Joint Program Office and Pratt & Whitney to resolve supply and maintenance issues with Pratt's F135 engine for the F-35A, as such engines have had to enter maintenance earlier than expected due to ...

Huntington Ingalls Industries [HII] on Thursday posted higher net income and sales in its fourth quarter, driven by a pension tailwind, higher operating profits in two of its segments, and an increase in shipbuilding revenue. Net income in the quarter soared 67 percent to $249 million, $6.15 ...

A Boeing [BA] KC-46A tanker for the Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF) had its maiden flight on Feb. 8, Boeing said. The aircraft is to be delivered to JASDF later this year and is one of four tankers for JASDF announced under a $1.9 billion deal approved under the Foreign Military Sales program ...

Win, Lose, Win. After first winning the contract, then losing it following protests by losing bidders, Amentum’s DynCorp International business unit once again has won a potential $1.3 billion contract to provide aviation maintenance and logistics services to Customs and Border Protection. If it ...

The future Arleigh Burke-class Flight IIA destroyer USS Daniel Inouye (DDG-118) finished acceptance trials on Feb. 4 following a day underway off the coast of Maine. The trials on the General Dynamics’ Bath Iron Works [GD] ship included inspections by the Navy’s Board of Inspection and Survey ( ...

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) this week changed its plans to develop a counter-hypersonic missile defense system, ending one program and redirecting it into a nearer-term initiative. The MDA is no longer issuing a final Request for Prototype Proposals (RPP) for the Regional Glide Phase Weapons ...

The Air Force has tapped Lockheed Martin [LMT] and Northrop Grumman [NOC] to compete for task orders to support the Platform One agile software development program. Both companies were selected for the five-year Software Development Security Operations (DevSecOps) Basic Ordering Agreement (BOA) to ...