Friday, April 19, 2024
Friday, April 19, 2024
This Wednesday INSIDER Daily Digest has news on Lockheed Martin winning a big missile defense radar contract, Army vehicle sensors, the delayed launch of SpaceX's GPS III satellite and more.
Looks like Lockheed Martin will be building the Missile Defense Agency's Homeland Defense Radar-Hawaii:
MDA taps Lockheed to build new $1 billion Hawaii missile defense radar
The Missile Defense Agency has selected Lockheed Martin to build the Homeland Defense Radar-Hawaii, a planned $1 billion improvement to the U.S. military's intercontinental ballistic missile defense architecture that will add a ground-based sensor on the archipelago state to better defend Hawaii against North Korean long-range rockets.
Inside Defense recently interviewed Don Reago, director of the night vision and electronic sensors directorate under the Communications-Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center:
Army developing intelligent sensors for next-generation vehicles
The Army wants to equip its next generation of combat vehicles with automated target acquisition so soldiers can see farther and faster, according to an official.
The launch of SpaceX's GPS III satellite has been delayed a couple times this week:
SpaceX GPS III launch performance could set the stage for future reusable missions
SpaceX's upcoming GPS III satellite could set the stage for future Air Force reusable launch missions, according to launch officials.
Maj. Gen. Michael Fantini, head of the new Air Force Warfighting Integration Capability, spoke at a Dec. 18 Air Force Association event:
AFWIC wargaming aimed at helping flesh out future force structure needs
The Air Force has yet to reveal much detail on how it will achieve its vision to grow from 312 operational squadrons to 386, but a series of wargaming and planning efforts slated to begin next year should help the service understand its options for addressing near- and long-term threats.
One of the two concepts for the Apache and Black Hawk engine replacement effort will move onto the engineering and manufacturing development phase after the Army's milestone B decision in late January:
ITEP downselect expected in early 2019
Vendors competing in the Army's Improved Turbine Engine Program expect the service to downselect to one design in early 2019.