Woodstock Wire: Defense Dispatch

U.S. News -- Ellsworth Air Force Base to receive first B-21 Raider planes 14 years after being removed from the Department of Defense's closure list.

Business Wire -- Announcing $212 million contract awarded to Harris Corporation for Navy F/A-18 electronic warfare system.

U.S. News -- The U.S. Air Force will conduct a large training exercise and a weapons evaluation in northern Utah in coming weeks.

SupplyChain -- U.S. Dept. of Defense Contracts - DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCYSea Box,* Cinnaminson, New Jersey, (SPRD11-19-D-0100, $471,828,000); W&K

SupplyChain -- U.S. Dept. of Defense Contracts - ARMYGeneral Dynamics - Ordnance and Tactical Systems, Garland, Texas, was awarded a $125,000,000

SupplyChain -- U.S. Dept. of Defense Contracts - AIR FORCELockheed Martin Space, King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, has been awarded an $879,000,000

Business Wire -- Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS) has received an $84 million contract to produce Navigation Technology Satellite-3 (NTS-3)

Globe Newswire -- ManTech (Nasdaq: MANT) today announced that it has been selected as one of three companies to continue collaborative development of a prototype...

Globe Newswire -- Patriot One Technologies Inc. (TSX.V: PAT) (OTCQX: PTOTF) (FRANKFURT: 0PL) makers of the award-winning PATSCAN threat detection system today...

Military -- Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) is developing a new version of the Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar that flies on the U-2 Dragon Lady aircraft under a...

Ars Technica -- Late out of the gates, the SB-1 Defiant is a (mostly) all-new kind of helicopter.

Media -- Evertiq - Teledyne Advanced Electronic Solutions (AES), a business unit of Teledyne Technologies Incorporated was awarded a contract worth approximately...

gizmag -- The US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has given the green light to start building a new hypersonic rocket capable of flying at eight times...

Tech -- Digital Trends - American astronaut Anne McClain has welcomed SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule to the ISS following its historic maiden docking over...

FastCompany -- Airbus thinks so.



We all know that sitting in an economy class seat on an airplane is murder on your back, your legs, and your sanity. But...

Globe Newswire -- CPI Aerostructures, Inc. ("CPI Aero") (NYSE American: CVU) today announced that it has been awarded a multi-year contract by Lockheed Martin...

Media -- Fox - Tech - As the Navy commissions its second Zumwalt-class stealthy new destroyer, the service is expanding the strategic scope for the attack...

Tech -- BGR - Bigger isn't always better, at least when it comes to air travel. In an announcement that will surely be a bummer for fans of colossal...

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U.S. News -- A Vermont GE Aviation facility is going to benefit from a $517 million contract from the U.S. Army to build parts for Blackhawk and Apache helicopter...

Globe Newswire -- CPI Aerostructures, Inc. ("CPI Aero") (NYSE American: CVU) announced today that it has been awarded an approximate $1 million program from Sikorsky,...

Tech -- GeekWire - Boeing employees, military personnel and VIPs gather at Boeing's assembly plant in Everett, Wash., for the handover of the first KC-46...

Tech -- Digital Trends - Boeing has completed the first test flight for its very own vertical takeoff and landing electric air taxi. The flying demo...

Business Wire -- The U.S. Air Force has accepted the first Boeing KC-46A Pegasus tanker aircraft, setting the stage for the aircraft's delivery to McConnell Air...

PR Newswire -- Boeing [NYSE:BA] today delivered the first of ten 787 Dreamliners to WestJet, marking the start of the airline's global expansion. Having long...

Enterprise -- Digital Colorado - The CEO of aerospace company Maxar Technologies Ltd. has been replaced a year after he brought the company's headquarters...

U.S. News -- Connecticut-based submarine maker Electric Boat says employment will remain stable for next several years, but it will likely ramp up by the...

PR Newswire -- The U.S. Navy commissioned USS Wichita (LCS 13) - the nation's seventh Freedom-variant Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) - at Naval Station Mayport...

Business Wire -- Comtech Telecommunications Corp. ("Comtech") (Nasdaq: CMTL) announced today it has agreed to acquire Solacom Technologies Inc....

Military -- SpaceX News - On Friday, January 11 at 7:31 a.m. PST, 15:31 UTC, SpaceX successfully launched the eighth and final set of satellites in a series...

Tech -- The Verge - When your satellite breaks in space, as DigitalGlobe's did on Monday, there isn't an easy way to repair it. Technology that's currently...

Defense Tech -- The U.S. Navy is on track to reach critical milestones and declare its F-35 Joint Strike Fighters ready for combat next month.

Tech -- GeekWire - An artist's conception shows a nanosatellite equipped with Deep Space Industries' non-toxic, water-based Comet thruster system. (DSI...

SupplyChain -- U.S. Dept. of Defense Contracts - NAVYOceaneering International Inc., Chesapeake, Virginia (N64498-19-D-0001); Huntington Ingalls

Military -- Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems, Marlborough, Massachusetts, is awarded a $114,065,820 cost-plus-fixed fee, firm-fixed-price, cost only contract...

U.S. News -- Lockheed Martin Corp has been awarded a $585 million U.S. defense contract for a Homeland Defense Radar in Hawaii,...

Think -- MIT Technology Review - And in the next few years it plans to launch the world's biggest space telescope, the world's heaviest rocket, and a...

SupplyChain -- U.S. Dept. of Defense Contracts - MISSILE DEFENSE AGENCY Lockheed Martin Corp., Moorestown, New Jersey, is being awarded a

PR Newswire -- Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) was awarded a $585 million contract by the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) to design, develop and deliver its Homeland...

Business Wire -- The U.S. Army has awarded BAE Systems a contract worth up to $376 million for the EMD phase of the MPF program and rapid prototyping effort.

Enterprise -- SiliconANGLE - A report from April that was published for the first time by the U.S. Department of Defense last week has found that cybersecurity...

Tech -- GeekWire - Boeing's board of directors has approved an increase in the company's quarterly dividend.

Tech -- GeekWire - Blue Origin's New Shepard suborbital spaceship sits on its West Texas launch pad in preparation for a launch in July 2018. (Blue Origin...

PR Newswire -- General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT) today announced it will support the U.S. Navy through a new contract vehicle known as SeaPort...

ABC - Money -- Boeing is buying a majority stake in Embraer's commercial aircraft and services operations for $4.2 billion

Denver Post -- After months of delays, the U.S. Air Force is about to launch the first of a new generation of GPS satellites, designed to be more accurate,...

PR Newswire -- Boeing [NYSE:BA] today delivered the 787th 787 Dreamliner to come off the production line, marking a special milestone for the super-efficient...

Military -- The Missile Defense Agency completed the third successful intercept of a ballistic missile target by a Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) SM-3(r) Block...

Business Wire -- Comtech Telecommunications Corp. (NASDAQ: CMTL) today reported its operating results for the first fiscal quarter ended October...

Think -- Big Think - U.S. intelligence recorded a Russian rocket deploying a mysterious object during a recent mission.It's possibly an inspector satellite,...