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The Air Force awarded Lockheed Martin [LMT] two production contracts totaling $449 million for the Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile (JASSM) and the Extended Range (ER) variant, the company said on Jan. 9.  […]

With less than a year before its first unmanned launch, the Orion program will undergo further testing and integration of modules in 2014, prime contractor Lockheed Martin [LMT] said. The launch […]

Northrop Grumman [NOC] said it has entered an agreement to collaborate with the privately held Trex Enterprises Corp. to bring celestial navigation technology to the precision targeting capability for the […]

Language requiring the Air Force secretary to develop a plan to implement a new acquisition strategy for the Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) program made it into the fiscal year […]

A team led by NASA and Ball Aerospace [BLL] seeks to demonstrate and test a high-performance, non-toxic “green” spacecraft propellant on orbit with a goal of launching it into space by October […]

Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) on Jan. 6 successfully launched the Orbital Sciences [ORB]-built Thaicom-6 satellite on one of its Falcon 9 rockets from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. The launch […]

Lockheed Martin [LMT] will continue tracking space debris as part of an Air Force situational awareness contract aimed at protecting satellites and other assets in orbit such as the International Space […]

The Air Force in December issued two contracts worth a combined $78 million for demonstrations of a Medium Class Stage III ICBM motor with technologies applicable to multiple future common […]

The United States is moving quickly to provide the Iraqi government with additional military equipment such as unarmed drones to help Baghdad counter a strengthening al-Qaeda-led insurgency, White House confirmed […]

Airbus Group on Jan. 6 named Allan McArtor to be the new head of its North American division effective March 1, succeeding Sean O’Keefe who is resigning due to ongoing medical […]