Day: November 20, 2017

Lockheed Martin has completed a Critical Design Review (CDR) with the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) for the Long Range Discrimination Radar (LRDR), demonstrating compliance to all technical performance measures and requirements. The radar system will support a layered ballistic missile defence strategy to protect the US homeland from ballistic missile attacks. The MDA awarded the […]

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Raytheon has been awarded a $79 million contract to develop a new advanced telemetry system for the US Navy’s Range Support Aircraft. The high-tech plane will replace the Navy’s aging telemetry test aircraft, which has been in service since the 1970s. Based within the Gulfstream G550 airborne early warning airframe, Raytheon’s advanced telemetry system for […]

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A cutting of the ribbon ceremony has marked the completion of new accommodation for military medics working in Birmingham. The ceremony to open the new mess, known as the Glenart Castle Mess, was attended by the military’s Acting Surgeon General, Major General Martin Bricknell. Service personnel at the Royal Centre for Defence Medicine (RCDM), based at […]

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