TUCSON, Ariz., Feb. 4, 2012. The U.S. Navy completed developmental testing (DT) of the Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) Joint Standoff Weapon C-1. Developmental testing finished when the JSOW C-1 struck a moving ship target during the weapon's second flight test.

ST. LOUIS, Feb. 3, 2012. Boeing [NYSE: BA] announced that it has started production of the new Distributed Targeting System (DTS) for the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet strike fighter.

NASHUA, N.H., Feb. 3, 2012. BAE Systems has been selected by the U.S. Army as one of two contractors to develop the next generation Common Infrared Countermeasure (CIRCM) solution – a directed infrared countermeasure system for Army, Navy, and Marine rotary-wing aircraft.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., Feb. 2, 2012. General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems and BAE Systems have teamed up to develop, demonstrate and produce the 81mm Roll Controlled Guided Mortar (RCGM), an 81mm precision mortar round.

CHARLOTTE, N.C., Feb. 2, 2012. General Dynamics Armament and Technical Products, a business unit of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD), was awarded a $23.6 million contract by Lockheed Martin Corp. for production of more than two dozen GAU-22/A gun systems for the F-35 Lightning II.

MANASSAS, Va., 2 Feb. 2012. Northrop Grumman Corp. (NYSE:NOC) in Manassas, Va., won a $37 million contract to produce the Consolidated Afloat Networks and Enterprise Services (CANES) system for the U.S. Navy. Northrop Grumman’s official Facebook page reveals: “We were awarded $37M by the U.S. Navy to produce CANES. If all options are exercised, the award [would] have a value of $638M. CANES will consolidate and modernize shipboard network systems to improve operational effectiveness and affordability across the fleet.”

WASHINGTON, D.C., Feb. 1, 2012. Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] and Raytheon Company [NYSE: RTN] are teaming to compete for a U.S. Navy contract that will upgrade the fleet’s capability to electronically attack anti-ship missiles.

SYDNEY, Jan. 31, 2012. Raytheon Company's (NYSE: RTN) Rolling Airframe Missile Block 2 successfully completed two guided test vehicle flights within one week, demonstrating the system's upgraded kinematic performance, guidance system and airframe capabilities.

SAN FRANCISCO, 31 Jan. 2012. U.S. Navy and U.S. Army officials joined forces with aerospace and defense industry leaders, including executives from Lockheed Martin and Rockwell Collins, to help ensure warfighters can benefit from continued software innovations, both more quickly and more affordably, despite anticipated U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) budget cuts. The Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE) Consortium has released the FACE Technical Standard, providing guidelines for creating a common operating environment to support applications across multiple DOD avionics systems.

NASHUA, N.H., Jan. 30, 2012. Skyler Frink reports on possible security breaches facebook can cause, along with the benefits social networking provides soldiers.

GREENVILLE, S.C., 30 Jan. 2012. Lockheed Martin [NYSE:LMT] engineers have delivered the fourth P-3 Orion with new Mid-Life Upgrade (MLU) modifications to U.S. Customs and Border Protection two months ahead of schedule. Engineers at Lockheed Martin's Greenville facility completed the MLU installation and phase depot maintenance (PDM) in 11 months. 

PATUXENT RIVER NAS, Md., 29 Jan. 2012. U.S. Navy anti-submarine warfare experts are buying 50,430 AN/SSQ-53F advanced passive sonobuoys from ERAPSCO Inc. in Columbia City, Ind. under terms of a $38.4 million contract modification announced Friday. In this order, 49,990 sonobuoys are for the Navy and 440 are for the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in Washington, which is the diplomatic representative of Taiwan to the U.S.

NEW YORK, Jan. 27, 2012. L-3 Communications' Global Security & Engineering Solutions (L-3 GS&ES) unit was awarded an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (ID/IQ) contract to support the U.S. Air Force under the fourth installment of the Contracted Advisory and Assistance Services (CAAS IV) program.

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla., Jan. 26, 2012. Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) and the U.S. Navy have completed a series of flight tests to demonstrate technology that could help extend the operating range and flight duration of future carrier-based unmanned systems.

TUCSON, Ariz., Jan. 24, 2012. The U.S. Navy completed developmental and operational testing (DT/OT) of the newest variant of the Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) laser-guided Maverick missile.

THE MIL & AERO VIDEO BLOG, 24 Jan. 2012. The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has a few new anti-submarine warfare (ASW) tricks up its sleeve in the continuing struggle to counter the growing threat to U.S. aircraft carrier battle groups from quiet diesel-electric enemy attack submarines, as John Keller reports this week in the Mil & Aero Video Blog.

SPARKS, Nev., 24 Jan. 2012. Sierra Nevada Corp. (SNC) won a contract from Science and Engineering Services Inc. to fulfill the Degraded Visual Environments (DVE) Operational Needs Statement (ONS) under the U.S. Army Aviation Networks Mission Planning (ANMP) program directorate. The company will deliver 10 Helicopter Autonomous Landing System (HALS) with three-dimensional (3D) imagery and landing guidance symbology in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. HALS combines real-time 3D radar imagery with digital terrain map, satellite imagery, and DVE-specific guidance symbology for takeoff, approach, and landing operations in fog, brownout, and other challenging conditions.

ST. LOUIS, Jan. 23, 2012. The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] received a $126 million contract from the U.S. Air Force on Nov. 30 for approximately 5,000 Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) tail kits. Deliveries will begin in June 2013 and continue through May 2014.