Space & Missile Defense Report

MBDA on Nov. 14 appointed Orbital Sciences Corp. [ORB] co-founder Scott Webster as Chairman of the Board, CEO and Managing Director of MBDA Inc., replacing Jerry Agee who is retiring.  The Board […]

A senior delegation from Poland attended the Nov. 6 tri-national Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS) successful dual intercept of simultaneously attacking air-breathing target and a tactical ballistic missile in […]

The Air Force is debating whether its two remaining Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) spacecraft will be useful by the time they are launched, according to a high-ranking official. “There’s […]

Machine-to-Machine (M2M) solutions provider Orbcomm [ORBC] and satellite communications services provider Inmarsat are teaming to take advantage of what they called the rapidly growing M2M market with a goal of creating a standard satellite-based […]

The Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) Oct. 25 notified Congress of a possible $404 million Foreign Military Sale to South Korea for Patriot Anti-Tactical Missiles and associated equipment, parts, training […]

An F-35A executed the program’s first live-fire launch of a guided air-to-air missile one day after it successfully delivered an unarmed weapon against a ground target, the Defense Department said […]

The major event for the Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS) Proof of Concept–an intercept flight test–is on track for early November, executives said.   “This is one of the key […]

MBDA said a series of successful firings of the Brimstone 2 development program in early October demonstrated “significant progress” in proving the performance of the latest guidance system upgrades being added […]

Satellite communications (SATCOM) provider ViaSat [VSAT] created a new radio frequency (RF) waveform for its VR-12 Ka-band airborne antenna system to transmit information through the rotors of a helicopter, according to a […]

The Army and Northrop Grumman  [NOC] have made substantial progress toward a major integrated air and missile defense (IAMD) demonstration planned to begin Oct. 24 at Redstone Arsenal, Ala.  For the […]