Northrop Grumman said Thursday it had lined up Computer Sciences Corp.’s Australian subsidiary and a Turkish defense electronics firm to provide avionics components and test equipment for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. Australia and Turkey are two of the nine partner countries developing the new strike fighter. Northrop already has contracts with several other defense firms in Australia and Turkey.
The Space Force is playing midwife to a new ecosystem of commercial satellite constellations providing alternatives to the service’s own Global Positioning Service from much closer to the Earth, making their signals more accurate and harder to jam.