Space & Missile Defense Report

The House Appropriations Committee (HAC) approved a $140 million cut to the Air Force’s Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) program when it passed its version of the fiscal year 2016 […]

U.S. Strategic Command (STRATCOM) hopes to ramp up installation of its replacement for the Milstar satellite constellation, as reliability problems of the nuclear-survivable legacy system have slowed the follow-on’s procurement […]

The head of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) on June 16 downplayed the potential national security significance of NASA continuing payments to Russia to get astronauts to and from […]

NASA on June 12 issued its final request for proposals (RFP) for what the civil space agency called the smallest class of launch services it has ever procured. NASA plans […]

Under a four-year framework signed between Airbus and Norway’s Defense Logistic Organization (NDLO), the country’s military forces will get access to the Skynet X-band satellites for communications applications, the company […]

The Senate Appropriations Committee (SAC) on June 11 approved 27-3 its version of a fiscal year 2016 spending bill that provides nearly $334 million less for Commercial Crew than NASA […]

Kratos Defense & Security Systems [KTOS] on June 1 said it has agreed to sell its United States and United Kingdom operations of its Electronic Products Division to Britain’s Ultra […]

The Army and Northrop Grumman [NOC] on May 28 destroyed a ballistic missile using the Integrated Air and Missile Defense (IAMD) Battle Command System (IBCS) in its first flight test, […]

Concerns about the military’s waning technological dominance have fueled a $200 million boost to directed energy research in the Senate Armed Service Committee’s (SASC) defense authorization bill. The committee’s version […]