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 by James Laporta Washington (UPI) Jun 21, 2018
Lockheed Martin has been awarded a contract for the Defense Department to exercise options to support Aegis combat system. The deal, from Naval Sea Systems Command and announced on Wednesday, is valued at more than $18.9 million under the terms of a cost-plus-incentive-fee, which is a modification to a previous Pentagon award, the Defense Department said. The deal would provide support for the Aegis Baseline 9 combat system, installed on guided-missile destroyers with "capability development, studies, initiatives and support," among other services. Work on the contract will occur in Moorestown, N.J., and is expected to be complete in July 2019. More than $3.2 million will be obligated to Lockheed Martin at time of award -- the funds will be allocated from Navy fiscal 2018 research, development, test & evaluation funds and coupled with funding from operations and maintenance accounts for fiscal year 2018. The obligated funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year.
China Working Toward Next-Gen Quantum Radar to Track Ballistic Missiles Beijing (Sputnik) Jun 18, 2018 The state-owned Chinese company responsible for developing high-end electronics has claimed that the next version of its quantum radar will be even more powerful than previously thought. In 2016, China Electronics Technology Group Corporation (CETC) announced that it had tested a quantum radar with a range of around 62 miles, or 100 kilometers - roughly five times further than the range of its US and German competitors, Popular Science reported. The next generation of the radar will be capable of ... read more
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