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Business/FinancialFirst UH-1Y Detachment Reports To Miramar For Training, AH-1Z Faces Two-Year Delay
By Geoff Fein Although the Navy’s efforts to develop the AH-1Z helicopter are now facing a two-year schedule slip, service officials point out that the UH-1Y just achieved its initial […]
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Homeland Security
DHS S&T Plans Standoff Technology Explosives Demo Programs
The Explosives Branch within Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Science and Technology (S&T) Directorate plans to conduct operational field demonstrations of remotely- operated and standoff explosive countermeasure technologies to address […]
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Business/Financial
Ballistic Missile Defense Programs Comprise 10 Percent Of Lockheed Revenues
Sales of ballistic missile defense systems and components have grown to make up 10 percent of the revenues in Lockheed Martin [LMT], the largest defense contractor, a senior official said […]
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Business/Financial
Launches
Space Shuttles For Hubble Mission, Standby, Unharmed By Storm; Shuttle Atlantis Still Set For Liftoff At 1:34 A.M. ET Oct. 8 Tropical Storm Fay, despite its drenching deluge that flooded […]
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Business/Financial
Contracts
Lockheed Gains $357 Million Hellfire II Production Contract The Army gave Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] a $357 million deal to produce more Hellfire missiles, the company announced today. They will […]
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SpaceTests Completed On Key Part For J-2X Engine In Ares Rocket
Engineers finished testing the workhorse gas generator in the J-2X engine, in the upper stage of the next-generation Ares I rocket, NASA announced. The Ares will loft the future U.S. […]
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Business/Financial
NASA Terminates Flight of ATK Experimental Rocket At Wallops
By Calvin Biesecker NASA on Friday destroyed an Alliant Techsystems [ATK] suborbital rocket carrying two experimental payloads moments after liftoff from Wallops Island, Va., after the launch vehicle veered off […]
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Interoperability Seen As Key To Future Fighter Platforms
By Marina Malenic Network integration of fighter aircraft is fast becoming the central effort of the fighter defense industrial base, a top Air Force official on the Joint Strike Fighter […]
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Defense Watch
The Latest Word On Trends And Developments In Aerospace And Defense Accepted. InSurv has recommended the Navy take delivery of Lockheed Martin’s LCS-1. "We will determine what corrections are required […]