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Business/FinancialJoint Forces Command Plans $478 Million Directorate Contract Competition
By Ann Roosevelt U.S. Joint Forces Command (JFCOM) intends multiple contracts to replace the current single $478 million contract for the Joint Concept Development and Experimentation Directorate (J9), a command […]
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Editor’s Note
The Hon. Donald Winter, Secretary of the Navy, will give the luncheon keynote address at Defense Daily‘s Open Architecture Summit on Nov. 18 in Washington, D.C. Register at https://www.defensedaily.com/events/OAsummit.html before […]
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Business/Financial
Boeing Launches New IDS Division
Boeing [BA] yesterday launched the Defense & Government Services division within its Integrated Defense Systems (IDS) business designed to better serve customers in the vast services market. Defense & Government […]
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CongressObama Targets Government Contracting, Private Hill Meetings
By Emelie Rutherford Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) outlined a government reform plan yesterday that calls for slashing government spending on contractors and requiring that congressional bill-writing sessions […]
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Business/Financial
Japan Uses PAC-3 To Kill Target Missile In Test; But U.S. THAAD Test Is Blocked By Weak Target
Japan succeeded in using a Patriot Advanced Capability (PAC-3) interceptor to take out a target tactical ballistic missile, but a U.S. test of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, or […]
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Business/Financial
Senate Approves Amendment Providing $89 Million For Ballistic Missile Defense AN/TPY-2 Radar
Provision Doesn’t Specify Which Nation Is Site The Senate voted out a defense authorization bill for the soon-to-begin fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 2009, approving an amendment that would provide […]
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Homeland Security
General Cool To Expanding Missile Defense System To Protect Space Assets From Attack
The United States shouldn’t leap to expand its missile defense system to protect U.S. military and civilian space assets from enemy attack, Gen. C. Robert Kehler, commander of the Air […]
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Business/Financial
Launches
Chinese Rocket Rolled Out To Launch Pad, As Taikonauts Arrive For Manned Mission Chinese space workers finished rolling out the Long-March II-F rocket topped by a spaceship, moving the system […]
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Business/Financial
Contracts
NASA Extends Information Technology Contract For $214.4 Million NASA extended the Unified NASA Information Technology Services, or UNITeS, contract with Science Applications International Corp. [SAI] of San Diego. This extension […]
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Business/Financial
NASA, Air Force, Seek Industry And University Partners To Establish Hypersonic Centers; Broad Agency Announcement Is Released; Up To $30 Million Fund
NASA and the Air Force are looking for university and industry partners to advance hypersonic research. The NASA Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate in Washington and the Air Force Research Laboratory’s […]