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An integrated test conducted by the U.S. Army and Navy on Sept. 21 saw the Raytheon JLENS aerostat provide targeting information to a Standard Missile-6, enabling the weapon to successfully engage an anti-ship cruise missile target.
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The majority of the U.S. Navy’s personnel from the Fire Scout detachment in Afghanistan returned to the U.S. last month. The detachment will revert back to a government-owned, contractor-operated unit.
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Northrop Grumman has been awarded a competitive prototyping contract by Boeing to develop an embedded global positioning/inertial navigation system (EGI) for the U.S. Navy’s F/A-18E/F Super Hornet and EA-18G Growler aircraft.
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