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The reorg eliminates the company's Aviation Systems segment, which is responsible commercial aviation solutions, systems, networks and pilot training.

Software-defined technology developer L3Harris Technologies under the terms of a new contract the two organizations announced July 15. L3Technologies represents a new customer for Innoflight. Innoflight will deliver key avionics for four satellites produced by L3Harris Technologies under the U.S. Space Development Agency‘s (SDA) Tracking Layer Tranche 0, consisting of eight space vehicles total. This program will be the first generation of SDA’s Tracking Layer, an important step towards th...

By   Theresa Hitchens on February 11, 2021 at 5:24 PM WASHINGTON: The Space Development Agency (SDA) plans to issue a request for proposals this summer for some 150 satellites to provide “initial warfighting capability” for communications and missile tracking, says SDA Director Derek Tournear. The new satellites, to be launched in September 2024, will comprise what SDA calls “Tranche 1” of its planned seven-layer National Defense Space Architecture. They will follow-on the 20 Transpo...

Perspecta announces financial results for third quarter of fiscal year 2021 - Revenue of $1.13 billion - Operating cash flow of $117 million - Bookings of $0.9 billion (Q3 book-to-bill ratio of 0.8x; trailing-twelve-month book-to-bill ratio excluding NGEN SMIT impact of 1.2x) News provided by Share this article Share this article CHANTILLY, Va., Feb. 5, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Perspecta Inc. (NYSE:PRSP), a leading U.S. government services provider, today announced financial results for the third ...

In this story, we dive in deep, going point by point throughout the flight path of a hypersonic boost-glide weapon and comparing the UCS analysis with its critiques. In essence, the critics argue the Union of Concerned Scientists got something wrong at every step of their analysis, from the technical details to the strategic implications. DARPA’s Project Falcon hypersonic testbed, HTV-2 UCS based their model on decade-old flight tests of an experimental DARPA design, HTV-2, which never comple...

"Information gathered up to and through Tracking Layer Tranche 0 will help inform decisions about future tranches, including how many and which types of sensors should be flown to provide the warfighter a complete advanced missile threat solution," SDA spokeswoman Jennifer Elzea says. By   Theresa Hitchens on January 29, 2021 at 1:01 PM

CLARIFICATION/UPDATE: To reflect that the SDA Tracking Layer satellites will be able to directly tip and queue other OPIR satellites in future; and the resumption of the program. WASHINGTON: The $4.9 billion contract to produce three Next-Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared (Next-Gen OPIR) missile warning satellites seems to fly in the face of loudly touted Air and Space Force efforts to embrace open standards and cut the number of ground stations, receivers and antennas, experts said. Inst...

​SpaceX and L3Harris to develop satellites for system to provide global indications, warning, tracking, and targeting of advanced missile threats, including hypersonic missile systems.

SpaceX wins US military satellite constellation launch contract to close out 2020 January 1, 2021 SpaceX’s Falcon 9 workhorse rocket has secured a new US military launch contract worth $150 million, closing out a spectacularly successful year. Announced by the Department of Defence’s (DoD) Space Development Agency (SDA) on December 31st, the contract stipulates that SpaceX will launch as many as 28 Transport and Tracking Layer (TTL) satellites on two Falcon 9 rockets in the seven months bet...