By Editor on Saturday, April 19th, 2014

Lockheed Martin (LMT) successfully conducted the fifth and final Production Qualification Test (PQT) for the recent Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System (GMLRS) Alternative Warhead recently at White Sands Missile Range, N.M. During the long-range test, four rockets were fired from a HIMARS launcher and destroyed their respective targets approximately 65 kilometers away. The test is the general milestone before the Developmental Test/Operational Test (DT/OT) phase, in order to incorporate soldiers into the system testing. The DT/OT phase will begin this summer and should conclude with the Initial Operational Test & Evaluation exercise within the fall of 2014. “This next phase... Read More »

By RIA Novosti on Thursday, December 5th, 2013

Northrop Grumman Corporation’s (NOC) Moss Point, Miss., Unmanned Systems Center started production of the primary NATO Alliance Ground Surveillance (AGS) Block 40 Global Hawk aircraft, enhanced to fulfill NATO operational requirements. NATO representatives, state dignitaries, community leaders and Northrop Grumman employees gathered to celebrate the beginning of production for the primary of 5 aircraft. The system will provide NATO with unprecedented near real-time terrestrial and maritime situational awareness information in the course of the full range of NATO military and civil-military missions, including peacekeeping and humanitarian relief operations. The NATO AGS system might be a main contribution to NATO’s joint... Read More »

Soldiers whose eyes are injured during combat have a more robust chance of returning to duty with their vision intact because of some revisions within the Army’s first-aid kit. The rigid eye shield was added as an element to the Army’s “Individual First-Aid Kit II,” which was distributed to the primary Army units within the fall of 2013. When properly worn, the shields can protect a service member’s eye from further damage after an initial eye injury is continued during combat operations. “We’ve learned so much about eye injuries within the field during the last decade,” said Lt. Col. Jeffrey... Read More »