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12 September

Rojoef Manuel

Bell Textron Taps GE Aerospace to Develop US Army Valor Aircraft Avionics

Bell Textron has selected GE Aerospace to develop avionics for the US Army’s V-280 Valor tiltrotor aircraft.

11 September

The 179th Airlift Wing, an Ohio Air National Guard unit, is redesignated as the 179th Cyberspace Wing during a ceremony held Sept. 9, 2023, at Mansfield-Lahm Air National Guard Base, Mansfield, Ohio. The redesignation is historically significant as the first Air National Guard base in the nation to become a cyberspace wing. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Tech Sgt. Alexis Wade)

Rojoef Manuel

US Air National Guard Gets First Cyberspace Wing

The US Air Force has reassigned the 179th Airlift Wing from a flying transport unit into the Air National Guard’s first Cyberspace Wing.

11 September

Inder Singh Bisht

Pentagon Selects Airborne Power Beaming Project Contenders

DARPA has selected three firms for the first round of an airborne wireless energy transmission development program announced last year.

11 September

1st Lt. Anton King, 75th Fighter Squadron pilot, poses for a photo wearing an HGU-55/P helmet fitted with Hybrid Optical-based Inertial Tracker and day visor Feb. 11, 2020, at Moody Air Force Base, Georgia. The helmet provides A-10C Thunderbolt II pilots a central interface for everything they need, from oxygen supply to communications to flight instruments. (U.S. Air Force photo illustration by Airman 1st Class Hayden Legg) (This image was manipulated by merging two photos in Adobe Photoshop.)

Rojoef Manuel

Collins Elbit Vision Systems to Develop Helmet-Mounted Display for US Navy

Collins Elbit Vision System has received a contract to produce and test Improved Joint Helmet Mounted Cueing Systems for the US Navy.

11 September

Joe Saballa

Boeing Wins ‘Glide Breaker’ Hypersonic Missile Interceptor Phase II Deal

The Defense Advanced Research Project Agency has selected Boeing to move to the second phase of the “Glide Breaker” hypersonic missile interceptor program.

10 September

USS Higgins conducted a Taiwan Strait transit on Sept. 20

Staff Writer With AFP

China on ‘High Alert’ After US, Canadian Ships Transit Taiwan Strait

China said its troops were "on high alert" after two ships belonging to the United States and Canada transited through the Taiwan Strait.

9 September

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz speaks with a serviceman as he stands aboard the frigate Mecklenburg-Vorpommern during his visit of the German Navy during a military maneuver in the Baltic Sea near Rostock-Warnemünde, northeastern Germany

Staff Writer With AFP

Western Allies Begin Major Baltic Sea Naval Drills

Western allies kicked off a major naval exercise in the Baltic Sea amid rising tensions with Russia over the conflict in Ukraine.

9 September

Staff Writer With AFP

General Warns China Seeking to ‘Exploit’ US Military Knowledge

US Air Force officer General Brown warned that China wants to "exploit" American and NATO military knowledge to improve its armed forces.

8 September

Staff Writer With AFP

US Conducting ‘Precautionary’ Repositioning of Forces in Niger

The United States is moving some of its troops from a base in Niger's capital Niamey — where rebel officers seized power in a July coup.

8 September

Los Angeles-class attack submarine USS City of Corpus Christi

Rojoef Manuel

ATI to Construct Florida Metal 3D Printing Facility for US Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program

Bechtel Plant Machinery has awarded Allegheny Technologies Incorporated a contract to support metal 3D-printed solutions for the US Navy.

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