Northrop Grumman begins testing X-47B UCAS-D software

Posted at: Mon Nov 26th, 2007

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 land...

US obtains Swiss records and flies in British witness in BAE investigation

Posted at: Mon Nov 26th, 2007

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 at: Mon Nov 26th, 2007

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 Stri...

Northrop Installs, Begins Flight Testing New Radar Test Units On B-2

Posted at: Mon Nov 26th, 2007

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...

BAE Systems Awarded Typhoon Repair Contract

Posted at: Mon Nov 26th, 2007

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. This contract, awarded by the UK MoD, will enable better equipment plannin...

Boeing and AFRL Demonstrate First-Ever Supersonic Munitions Release

Posted at: Mon Nov 26th, 2007

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.