Space & Missile Defense Report

Air Force Space Command (AFSPC) has developed plans to absorb $508 million in reductions to its fiscal year 2013 operations and maintenance (O&M) budget due to sequestration-related budget cuts and […]

The Air Force Tuesday successfully launched its second Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS) Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (GEO-2) satellite from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., according to an Air Force statement. […]

The Defense Department’s next-generation Wideband Global Satcom (WGS) and Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AHEF) communications satellites will expand businesses involved in satellite-based communications, according to a CEO. “Anybody in any […]

The Navy is about a month away from releasing its request for proposals (RFP) for the aircraft carrier-based unmanned aerial vehicle designed for surveillance and strike, Adm. Jonathan Greenert, the […]

Northrop Grumman [NOC] in February completed a successful exchange of radar data during a flight test involving the Air Force’s E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (Joint STARS, JSTARS) […]

The United States and Japan recently in Tokyo held their first meeting of the Comprehensive Dialogue on Space, according to a Defense Department statement. DoD said the convening of this […]

A joint French and Italian crew recently operating two French Air Force Surface-To-Air-Missile Platform/Terrain (SAMP/T) units successfully scored in a test against a ballistic missile threat, for the first time […]