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A Cycle World review of the Husqvarna 2021 FX 450 has found that the off-road motorcycle offers good stability on uneven terrain and handles corners well while providing a consistent clutch feel to the rider. The bike is powered by a 450 cc, single-cylinder, liquid-cooled, SOHC engine mated to a five-speed multi-plate transmission system. The downside to the motorcycle is the vibration levels and the trade-off between the suspension’s performance and comfort, according to the review.

Turkey's Meteksan Defence Industry said it has developed a new ground-based laser system designed to disable electro-optical and infrared-guided missiles. The NAZAR system relies on soft-kill capabilities to neutralize targets from long distances and to perform reconnaissance and surveillance. The system can be packed up into a mobile platform and can power itself using a built-in generator. Meteksan Defence will display the NAZAR at the International Defence Industry Fair 2021 in Turkey, Defence Blog reported Tuesday. 

Fairfax, Virginia-based Trident Systems will exhibit its Mini-Secure Communications Controller at the 143rd National Guard Association of the United States General Conference and Exhibition, slated for Aug. 27 to 30 at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center. The handheld tactical voice bridge allows disparate radio networks to communicate with each other regardless of the radio type, frequency or communications security protocol. The solution can improve communications across the National Guard and allow the Department of Defense, first responders and organizations from allied countries to communicate with each other, Trident said Thursday.

Jacobs Solutions (NYSE: J) posted net income of $216.5 million or $1.70 per share for the second quarter of its 2023 fiscal year, compared to the $88.8 million or $0.68 per share from the prior-year period.

Executive Mosaic's GovCon Index ended the month of May in negative territory as U.S. stocks declined ahead of a U.S. House of Representatives vote on the bipartisan deal between President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to suspend the debt limit for two years.

Executive Mosaic's GovCon Index and the major U.S. stock indexes surged as investors watched a bill to suspend the debt ceiling and cap government spending move through Congress on the first trading day of June.

Executive Mosaic's GovCon Index closed in the green Wednesday amid mixed results among U.S. stock indexes as investors take profit ahead of anticipated economic updates. The GCI ended at $137.29, up 1.09 percent, with V2X (NYSE: VVX) leading the daily percentage gainers.

The University of Hawaii at Manoa John A. Burns School of Medicine will capitalize on $430,375 from the National Institutes of Health to conduct research into a protein potentially tied to a form of hereditary spastic paraplegia. Matthew Pitts, a cell and molecular biology researcher at JABSOM and study lead, said his team will seek to understand the role that selenoprotein I plays in neurodevelopment and neurodegenerative diseases. According to Pitts, animal models of selenoprotein I knocked out in their central nervous system recapitulated impaired growth and disrupted myelination of human patients. The NIH-backed research effort will run for two years, the university said Monday.

Lockheed Martin has completed the critical design review for the Space Development Agency's Tranche 1 Transport Layer integrated ground and space system, advancing to the program's production phase. The CDR included validation tests for supplier designs and a system optical communications terminal interoperability test. The program's integration and testing phase now begins at a new small satellite processing facility, Lockheed said Monday.

CodeMettle has received a contract to provide network operation software licenses for National Guard Air Force Special Warfare all-domain command and control systems. According to the company's chief operating officer, Mike Mostow, the new solution will simplify the Air National Guard's increasingly complex hardware and networking requirements at the edge, easing the deployments of communications units at the frontline. The C2 systems will be bundled with the software that enables the management of disparate node components like backhaul, electronic warfare, dismount radio frequency and tactical data link, CodeMettle said Monday.