Space & Missile Defense Report
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Business/FinancialDeputy Secretary Of Defense Urges Easing U.S. Export Controls; Curbs On Military Hardware Exports Might Carry Expiration Date
Gordon England Says Deals With Australia, U.K., May Be Model For Agreements With Other Nations; Existing Arms Export Law Ill Serves United States Export Rules Still Should Encourage Foreign Investments […]
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Business/Financial
Overseas Firm Buying U.S. Defense Company, But Canada Nixes U.S. Contractor Buying Part Of A Canadian Defense-Related Outfit
An overseas defense contractor announced it will buy outright a U.S. defense-related company, even as a friendly nation vetoed a plan for just a portion of one of its defense- […]
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Business/Financial
Hamas Missile Attack Hits Israel During Bush Visit; Meanwhile, House Panel Cuts U.S. Missile Defense
Franks Sees Chance To Reverse House Funding Cuts In Missile Defense Programs, Including One That Could Protect Israel From Iranian Missile Attack Congressman Notes Israel Predicts Iran May Have Nuclear […]
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CongressUnited States Has Too Few Missile Defense Assets To Counter 26 Nations Wielding Ballistic Missiles, Yet House Panel Cuts Those Programs: Group
Poll Shows 83 Percent Of Americans Back Missile Defense With 26 nations wielding ballistic missiles, the United States has too few ballistic missile defense assets, yet a House panel is […]
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Business/Financial
Budget Woes Could Affect Constellation Program: Half-Year Freeze At Old Funding Levels Manageable, But Full-Year Continuing Resolution Would Be Tough
The Constellation Program now developing the next-generation Orion space capsule and Ares rocket has enough financial cushioning that it probably could finesse a congressional decision to freeze program funding at […]
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[May 19, 2008]
// PDF View- Boeing Bolsters Alabama Economy By $700 Million Yearly, Company States
- Defense Spending To Plunge If Either McCain Or Obama Becomes President, Analyst Says
- Ames Research Center Devises Lightweight Heat Shield
- Advanced Tactical Laser Fires High-Energy Laser Installed On C-130H
- Even As U.S. Economy Slows, Weakens, Aerospace Industry Employment Rises By 0.9 Percent From Yearend 2007
- Contracts
- Launches
- Budget Woes Could Affect Constellation Program: Half-Year Freeze At Old Funding Levels Manageable, But Full-Year Continuing Resolution Would Be Tough
- United States Has Too Few Missile Defense Assets To Counter 26 Nations Wielding Ballistic Missiles, Yet House Panel Cuts Those Programs: Group
- Hamas Missile Attack Hits Israel During Bush Visit; Meanwhile, House Panel Cuts U.S. Missile Defense
- Overseas Firm Buying U.S. Defense Company, But Canada Nixes U.S. Contractor Buying Part Of A Canadian Defense-Related Outfit
- Deputy Secretary Of Defense Urges Easing U.S. Export Controls; Curbs On Military Hardware Exports Might Carry Expiration Date
- House Panel Backs $1 Billion Extra Authorization To Accelerate Orion-Ares Spaceship Development Program
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InternationalLaunches
NASA Clears Astronaut To Spend Months On Space Station, Rejecting Concerns About Russian Soyuz Vehicle As Emergency Escape Space Shuttle Discovery Gets Clean Review For Launch From Kennedy At 5:02 […]
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Business/Financial
Contracts
Lockheed Martin Wins $1.463 Billion Air Force GPS III Contract The Air Force as expected gave Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] the coveted GPS III next-generation military-civilian navigation-satellites contract, the Department […]
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Business/Financial
Even As U.S. Economy Slows, Weakens, Aerospace Industry Employment Rises By 0.9 Percent From Yearend 2007
But Huge Number Of Aging Workers Poised For Retirement; Engineers, Scientists, Mathematicians Needed Even as the U.S. economy slows, with some economists saying it is in a recession, employment in […]
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Business/Financial
Advanced Tactical Laser Fires High-Energy Laser Installed On C-130H
The Boeing Co. [BA] fired an Advanced Tactical Laser (ATL) weapon — a high-energy chemical laser installed aboard a C-130H aircraft — in ground tests for the first time, the […]