Lockheed Martin and EADS Astrium recently concluded they could work together to ensure interoperability between the US Global Positioning System III satellites and the European Galileo navigation satellite program. The two companies will perform systems engineering and technical assistance tasks for each other covering interoperability, integrity, and optimization of joint constellation performance. They also plan to offer reciprocal bids on hardware and software within policy and export constraints.
The Pentagon fulfilled Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's promise to slash the number of Religious Affiliation Codes used by the military to track the volume of members adhering to different religions and to shape the chaplain corps to support them. The change reduces the number of religions counted for such purposes…