Space & Missile Defense Report
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Business/FinancialSenator Orders NASA To Provide Documents About Small Firm Under Investigation
Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.), chairman of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, told NASA to turn over documents relating to a federal probe of a company that […]
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Business/FinancialObama Will Kill European Missile Defense In Deal With Russia That Can’t Work: Analyst
Airborne Laser To Die As Well President Obama will enter a deal with the Russians where the United States will agree to drop or defer indefinitely plans for a European […]
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Business/FinancialNASA Official Indicted For Steering Deals To Clients
Courtney Stadd, a former NASA official who left the agency, was indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly using a temporary NASA post he held later to help steer […]
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Business/FinancialStudy Says Using Aegis Ships Instead Of European Missile Defense Would Cost Twice As Much As EMD
Using sea-based Aegis weapon control systems and Standard Missiles to protect Europe from Iranian missile attacks would cost almost twice as much as the European Missile Defense (EMD) system proposed […]
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Business/FinancialNavy Ship To Be Named For Astronaut Wally Schirra
A Navy logistics ship was named for former NASA astronaut Wally Schirra, with christening ceremonies yesterday in San Diego, General Dynamics Corp. [GD] stated. Schirra was a Navy captain who […]
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Business/FinancialClinton, Lavrov Don’t Reach Agreement On European Missile Defense, But Talks To Continue Between Moscow, Washington
The United States and Russia failed to agree on a plan to resolve a long-running dispute over U.S. plans to build the European Missile Defense (EMD) system against missiles launched […]
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Business/FinancialAir Force Lab Taps Northrop For Wireless Setup Inside Satellites
The Air Force Research Laboratory gave Northrop Grumman Corp. [NOC] a contract to develop lightweight wireless systems inside spacecraft, in place of heavy copper wire systems. Northrop will develop a […]
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Business/FinancialIran Fires New Air-To-Surface Missile Targeting Ships, Threatens To Close Hormuz Strait In Any Attack
A belligerent Iran successfully test-fired a new air-to-surface anti-ship missile, according to a report by the official Iranian Fars News Agency. Iran succeeded in fitting the missiles to jet fighter […]
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Homeland Security
Navy Air And Missile Defense Command To Be Stood Up At Dahlgren, Va.: CNO
A new Navy Air and Missile Defense Command will be stood up next month at the Naval Surface Warfare Center at Dahlgren, Va., Adm. Gary Roughead, chief of naval operations, […]
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Business/FinancialFranks, Republicans, Assail Obama Move To Drop European Missile Defense In Iranian Pressure Deal With Russians
Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.) firmly criticized President Obama for reportedly offering a deal to the Russians, where the United States would back down from its plans to build the European […]