Posts from GovConWire for 10/13/2015

Navy Hones ‘Distributed Lethality’ Surface Warfare Concept

The U.S. Navy continues to hone its surface warfare operations based on the Distributed Lethality warfighting concept that the service introduced earlier this year at the Surface Navy Association symposium, Breaking Defense reported Friday…

Lockheed: Army Eyes Competition for Ground Intelligence Platform’s Increment 2

The U.S. Army plans to hold a competition for the Distributed Common Ground System-Army Increment 2 as part of its efforts to update the system. The DCGS-A system is designed to allow uniformed personnel to collect, process and share intelligence through data derived from radio intercepts, infrared images, videos, maritime signals and other sources, Lockheed Martin said Monday…

Raytheon, US Navy Test Tomahawk Block IV Cruise Missile; Dave Adams Comments

Raytheon and the U.S. Navy have demonstrated how a Tomahawk Block IV cruise missile captures reconnaissance photos and performs midflight retargeting of objects. The missile sent the captured battle damage indication imagery to fleet headquarters via its UHF SATCOM datalink following the missile’s launch from USS Gridley, Raytheon said Oct…

Orbital ATK Sends Cygnus Service Module to NASA KSC; Frank Culbertson Comments

Orbital ATK has shipped to NASA a service module for Cygnus OA-4, the company-built cargo spacecraft planned for a Dec. 3launch at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The company saidMonday that Cygnus will undergo final assembly at KSC before the agency launches the spacecraft aboard an Atlas V rocket to deliver crew supplies, technologies and scientific experiments to the International Space Station…