http://www.defensedaily.com Defense Daily en-us 2010 Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:47:28 EDT By Emelie Rutherford Pentagon officials are studying how President Barack Obama's proposal to cancel NASA's Constellation spaceflight program would impact the military's solid-rocket-motor efforts. The White House's fiscal year 2011 NASA budget request calls... http://www.defensedaily.com/publications/smr/9599.html Mon, 15 Mar 2010 0:00:00 EDT Aerojet, a GenCorp [GY] company, and Orbital Sciences Corp. [ORB], along with Aerojet's Russian partner, SNTK, announced today that a series of NK-33 rocket engine tests conducted in Samara, Russia were successfully completed in support of the development of... http://www.defensedaily.com/publications/smr/9600.html Mon, 15 Mar 2010 0:00:00 EDT Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) and Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) have signed an agreement for the launch of an SS/L manufactured satellite aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 as early as 2012. For this mission, Falcon 9 will launch from the SpaceX launch site at... http://www.defensedaily.com/publications/smr/9601.html Mon, 15 Mar 2010 0:00:00 EDT By Marina Malenic Funding for development of the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) should be sustained until a Defense Department requirements review for future weather satellites is completed, Air Force officials... http://www.defensedaily.com/publications/smr/9602.html Mon, 15 Mar 2010 0:00:00 EDT By Geoff Fein GeoEye, Inc. [GEOY] last week said it has selected Lockheed Martin [LMT] to build the geospatial imagery company's next- generation, high-resolution Earth imaging satellite system known as GeoEye-2, according to Lockheed Martin. Additionally... http://www.defensedaily.com/publications/smr/9603.html Mon, 15 Mar 2010 0:00:00 EDT By Calvin Biesecker ATK [ATK] Mar. 11 announced a realignment of its business groups, including the addition of a new one that will serve the law enforcement and sporting markets, naming new leaders for each one month after Mark DeYoung took the helm at the... http://www.defensedaily.com/publications/smr/9604.html Mon, 15 Mar 2010 0:00:00 EDT By Ann Roosevelt Raytheon [RTN] has submitted its average missile unit production price for the Non-Line-of-Sight Launch System (NLOS-LS), coming in at about a third the cost of a government estimate, a company executive said. "The government has shared a... http://www.defensedaily.com/publications/smr/9605.html Mon, 15 Mar 2010 0:00:00 EDT Paradigm, a wholly owned subsidiary of Astrium Services, has signed a contract with the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) to extend and enhance the Skynet 5 private finance initiative (PFI) program. "The Skynet 5 program was a pioneering step in the provision of... http://www.defensedaily.com/publications/smr/9606.html Mon, 15 Mar 2010 0:00:00 EDT By Marina Malenic The German government has launched a reevaluation of air defense alternatives ahead of a major design milestone for the Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS), a next- generation missile defense program it is developing along with Italy... http://www.defensedaily.com/publications/smr/9607.html Mon, 15 Mar 2010 0:00:00 EDT By Calvin Biesecker Orbital Sciences Corp. [ORB] recently said it has agreed to acquire the spacecraft development and manufacturing business of General Dynamics [GD] for $55 million, giving the company an instant entry into the government market for... http://www.defensedaily.com/publications/smr/9608.html Mon, 15 Mar 2010 0:00:00 EDT MBDA announced the re-organization of its U.S.-based subsidiary, MBDA Inc. as a stand-alone national company. MBDA Inc.'s new U.S. headquarters and team are in place in Arlington, Va. The company will now report to its Board of Directors and the MBDA Group as... http://www.defensedaily.com/publications/smr/9609.html Mon, 15 Mar 2010 0:00:00 EDT United Launch Alliance, on behalf of Boeing Launch Services, successfully launched the third of three next-generation Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) missions for NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)... http://www.defensedaily.com/publications/smr/9610.html Mon, 15 Mar 2010 0:00:00 EDT Boeing [BA] announced Mar. 3 that the Air Force accepted control of the third Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) military communications satellite on March 1, after the spacecraft passed several weeks of rigorous on-orbit tests. WGS is the U.S. Department of... http://www.defensedaily.com/publications/smr/9611.html Mon, 15 Mar 2010 0:00:00 EDT By Geoff Fein GeoEye, Inc. [GEOY] yesterday said it has selected Lockheed Martin [LMT] to build the geospatial imagery company's next- generation, high-resolution Earth imaging satellite system known as GeoEye-2, according to Lockheed Martin. Additionally... http://www.defensedaily.com/publications/smr/9591.html Fri, 12 Mar 2010 0:00:00 EST By Calvin Biesecker Orbital Sciences Corp. [ORB] last Thursday said it has agreed to acquire the spacecraft development and manufacturing business of General Dynamics [GD] for $55 million, giving the company an instant entry into the government market for... http://www.defensedaily.com/publications/smr/9558.html Mon, 8 Mar 2010 0:00:00 EST Integral Systems [ISYS] Monday said it successfully completed the Required Asset Available (RAA) milestone for the Rapid Attack Identification, Detection Reporting System (RAIDRS) Block 10 (RB-10) Central Operating Location (COL) and first deployable system... http://www.defensedaily.com/publications/smr/9477.html Mon, 1 Mar 2010 0:00:00 EST By B.C Kessner ATK [ATK] met a major milestone recently as it conducted final testing and prepared to ship the Operational Responsive Space-1 (ORS-1) satellite bus to Goodrich [GR], after building it in just 16 months. "Being able to build these satellites... http://www.defensedaily.com/publications/smr/9478.html Mon, 1 Mar 2010 0:00:00 EST By Emelie Rutherford Lawmakers vexed by President Barack Obama's attempt to cancel the Constellation moon-exploration program grilled NASA's leader Feb. 25 about its plan to help commercial companies build human-spaceflight vehicles. House Science and... http://www.defensedaily.com/publications/smr/9479.html Mon, 1 Mar 2010 0:00:00 EST Alliant Techsystems [ATK] and NASA Feb. 25 successfully performed the final ground test of a reusable solid rocket motor (RSRM) for the Space Shuttle program at ATK's Promontory, Utah facility. The test marks the completion of a 30-year program that... http://www.defensedaily.com/publications/smr/9480.html Mon, 1 Mar 2010 0:00:00 EST By Marina Malenic The Army is laying the groundwork for terminating a next-generation missile defense program being developed by Italy, Germany and the United States to replace the Patriot and other legacy systems, arguing that the system is too costly and no... http://www.defensedaily.com/publications/smr/9481.html Mon, 1 Mar 2010 0:00:00 EST