Northrop Grumman begins testing X-47B UCAS-D software
Posted on: Mon Nov 26th, 2007 | Flight Global

Northrop Grumman has begun installing systems in the first X-47B under the $635 million US Navy unmanned combat air system demonstrator (UCAS-D) contract won in August. The aircraft is scheduled to fly in 2009 and make its first autonomous carrier landing in 2011.

US obtains Swiss records and flies in British witness in BAE investigation
Posted on: Mon Nov 26th, 2007 | guardian.co.uk

US corruption investigators have gone behind the back of Downing Street to fly a British witness to Washington to testify about Saudi arms deals with the UK arms firm BAE Systems, the Guardian can disclose. In a hitherto secret move, Swiss federal prosecutors have also agreed to hand over to Washing...

Lockheed Selects InterSense for F-35 Lightning Pilot Training Program
Posted on: Mon Nov 26th, 2007 | marketwire.com

BEDFORD, MA--(Marketwire - November 26, 2007) - InterSense, Inc., a market leader in precision motion technology, today announced its IS-900 motion tracking system has been selected by Lockheed Martin for integration into its F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) Pilot Training Program. As th...

Northrop Installs, Begins Flight Testing New Radar Test Units On B-2
Posted on: Mon Nov 26th, 2007 | Northrop Grumman

PALMDALE, Calif., Nov. 26, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) has completed the installation, integration and initial flight testing of the first developmental test units (DTU) of the new radar antenna developed for the B-2 stealth bomber's radar modernization program (...

BAE Systems Awarded Typhoon Repair Contract
Posted on: Mon Nov 26th, 2007 | BAE Systems

RAF Coningsby, Lincoln – BAE Systems has been awarded a contract worth 11.6m GBP to provide a guaranteed repair service for key Typhoon aircraft components.

Boeing and AFRL Demonstrate First-Ever Supersonic Munitions Release
Posted on: Mon Nov 26th, 2007 | Boeing

ST. LOUIS, Nov. 26, 2007 -- Boeing [NYSE: BA] and the U.S. Air Force have successfully demonstrated how an innovative application of a technology called active flow control enables -- for the first time -- munitions to be safely released from a weapons bay at high supersonic speeds.