Space & Missile Defense Report

The Air Force gave Raytheon Co. [RTN] a contract to upgrade guidance and control sections for the air-to-ground Maverick missile. "The military is successfully employing laser-guided Mavericks against moving targets […]

Raytheon Co. [RTN] will use the relatively low cost of the Network Centric Airborne Defense Element (NCADE) to help sell it to the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) and Congress in […]

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) criticized several space programs on cost and other criteria. They were among many defense procurement programs that have run a combined total $296 billion over […]

Soyuz Lands Wednesday With Crew Space Shuttle Atlantis has arrived at Launch Pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center, Fla., poised for a May 12 liftoff on the STS-125 Mission to […]

Arctic sea ice continues to shrink, according to NASA. The latest Arctic sea ice data from NASA and the National Snow and Ice Data Center show that the decade-long trend […]

NASA needs sufficient funding, and the financial support must be stable rather than riding a volatile roller coaster of peaks and valleys, an industry leader said. Otherwise, the American space […]

Sino Secret Ballistic Missile May Be ‘Kill Weapon’ Targeting American Aircraft Carriers Obama Meets With Hu, Seeks Friendly Relations While a few observers still wonder why China is arming itself […]

President Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev remain divided over a U.S. plan to construct a European Missile Defense system to protect Europe and the United States against missile attack […]

Relations between the United States and Russia soured in part because the Americans wanted to build the European Missile Defense system, Russian President Demitry A. Medvedev wrote in a letter […]

Northrop Grumman White Paper Says New Situation Has Evolved, Cold War Strategy No Longer Viable Rogue states now acquiring nuclear weapons capability and missile delivery systems can’t be deterred from […]