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SpaceNASA Picks Four, Rejects 18 Firms To Further Develop Commercial Spacecraft
NASA is moving forward with its controversial plans to help develop a commercial space transportation industry, awarding more than $250 million in contracts to four firms to continue developing space […]
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Space
MDA Awards General Dynamics $565 Million Services Contract
General Dynamics [GD] recently said it has been awarded a contract by the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) Engineering and Support Services (MiDAESS) program to provide infrastructure and deployment services in […]
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Space
Industry Teams Shaping Up For Air Force Space Test Range Contract
Several industry teams have announced their intent to compete for an upcoming Air Force space launch and test range contract. Lockheed Martin [LMT] recently said it has teamed up with […]
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Space
SBIRS GEO-1 Poised For May Launch
The first geosynchronous satellite (GEO-1) in the Defense Department’s planned next-generation early missile warning constellation is being readied for launch in less than a month, Air Force officials overseeing the […]
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Space
FY ’11 Defense Bill Continues U.S.-Israeli Missile Defense Cooperation
U.S.-Israeli cooperative missile-defense programs would receive $415.1 million in the final Continuing Resolution (CR) legislation for fiscal year 2011. The CR provides funding to keep the federal government operating for […]
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Space
NASA Would Snag Ability To Cancel Constellation Contracts Under Budget Plan
NASA will be allowed to cancel unwanted contracts from the defunct Constellation manned-spaceflight program if Congress passes the massive fiscal year 2011 budget deal reached late last week. The full-year […]
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Business/FinancialNorthrop Grumman In University Cyber Security Incubator Program
Northrop Grumman [NOC] yesterday said that along with the Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) Research Park Corp. it has opened the Cync incubator program to cultivate companies that are […]
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UncategorizedBoeing Pitching International F/A-18 Variant To JSF Partner Nations
By Carlo Munoz ST. LOUIS–Officials from Boeing‘s [BA] military aircraft division have begun providing information on the company’s new international variant of its F/A-18 fighter to Joint Strike Fighter partner […]
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Business/Financial
Debt Charge Lowers L-3’s Earnings As Sales Edge Down
By Calvin Biesecker L-3 Communications [LLL] yesterday posted lower net income in the first quarter due to lower operating profits and slightly lower sales, although the company raised its earnings […]
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InternationalGoodrich Corp.’s U.K. Business Wins Highest Official Honor
Goodrich Corp.’s [GR] Sensors and Integrated Systems business in Plymouth, U.K. has won a 2011 Queen’s Award for Enterprise, the highest official U.K. honor for British businesses. The award, in […]