Raytheon announced Tuesday that it has tested and validated an upgraded navigation system for its Miniature Air Launched Decoy-Jammer. The system performed as expected in six test flights on B-52 and F-16 aircraft at White Sands Missile Range, N.M., according to a company release. The system upgrade is called GPS Aided Inertial Navigation System (GAINS II), and it improves “navigation performance in a jamming environment,” according to Raytheon. The company is already producing and delivering MALD-Js with GAINS II upgrades. In November 2016, Raytheon was awarded an $76 million option for lot 10 production of the MALD-J program.
DARPA Changing Directors Again in Third Recent Shuffle
Jan. 21, 2021
The Biden administration is reportedly tapping Stefanie Tompkins to run the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, spurring the third leadership change at the secretive Pentagon organization since January 2020. Defense One first reported Tompkins’s “pre-decisional” appointment to the post on Jan. 19. The White House did not respond to a…