Space & Missile Defense Report

The Air Force and the Defense Department’s acquisition team are working on changing the Pentagon’s launch capability contract with incumbent launch provider United Launch Alliance (ULA) in response to competition […]

The Air Force and United Launch Alliance (ULA) successfully launched the service’s ninth Global Positioning System IIF series satellite (GPS IIF-9) March 25 at 2:36 p.m. EDT from Cape Canaveral […]

NASA has 10 months of funded schedule reserve on James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) as the program enters a challenging phase, key stakeholders testified March 24. NASA Associate Administrator for […]

Sequestration is putting missile defense–both homeland and regional defense–in jeopardy, and could lead to future overmatch, the director of the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) told the House Armed Services Committee […]

If sequestration returns in fiscal year 2016, it would impact new programs vital to protecting the nation, the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) director told the Senate Appropriations defense panel March […]

A key lawmaker vowed to maintain a United States heavy launch capability to avoid a gap between the retirement of United Launch Alliance‘s (ULA) Delta IV rocket and the potential […]

Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) “most definitely” responded to NASA’s second Cargo Resupply Services program (CRS-2), company President and CEO Gwynne Shotwell said March 17. According to a request for […]

Rep. Jim Bridenstine (R-Okla.) vowed March 16 to find funding for the Air Force’s commercial satellite communications (COMSATCOM) “Pathfinder 2” program, which he said was not funded in the service’s […]