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Cal Biesecker
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InternationalLarge Sidewinder Missile Sale For Dutch Approved By State Department
The State Department last Friday approved a potential $691 million foreign military sale (FMS) of AIM-9X Sidewinder Block II short-range air-to-air missiles and related equipment to the Netherlands, a deal […]
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Business/FinancialAeroVironment Reports Record First Quarter Sales As Switchblade Continues To Power Growth
AeroVironment [AVAV] on Wednesday reported record first quarter fiscal year 2025 revenue driven by its soaring loitering munitions business and the company also benefited from robust demand for its other […]
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Business/FinancialSAIC Posts Steep Decline In Earnings On Slight Sales Gain In Second Quarter
Science Applications International Corp. [SAIC] on Thursday reported a steep decline in net income in its second quarters versus a year ago when the company benefited from the sale of […]
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SpaceSDA Demonstrates Space-Based Link 16 Connection With Navy Aircraft; Sees Several Month Delay In Tranche 1 Launches
The Space Development Agency (SDA), as part of a demonstration of its fledgling capability to transmit messages from spacecraft using an encrypted tactical data link, recently showed that connectivity could […]
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ArmyDrones, Counter UAS, Electronic Warfare, Spending Flexibility Will Feature In Army’s FY ’26 Request, Wormuth Says
Based on lessons being learned from the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian War and the U.S. Army’s needs to be part of the joint fight in the Indo-Pacific region, the service plans to […]
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Business/FinancialPeraton Appoints Former Alion Chief Schorer As Top Executive, Says Shea Has Departed
Peraton on Tuesday named Steve Schorer as its incoming chairman, president, and CEO, and also said that that Stu Shea, who had led the company since it was created in […]
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SpaceHypersonic Test Launch Successful From Sea-Based Platform, Establishing New Range
Under a contract with the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) to demonstrate a commercial capability for launching from sea, The Spaceport Company on Tuesday said it successfully launched a sub-scale hypersonic […]
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Military Space Update, Wednesday, September 4, 2024
// PDF View- Stoke Space Nabs Small DIU Contract To Prototype Cargo Delivery To And From Space
- SSC Awards Northrop Grumman More Than $200 Million for Second DARC Radar Site
- SpaceWERX Selects Nine Small Companies For STRATFI Funding
- More Than 100 NRO Satellites Launched/Planned Between June Last Year and End of This Year
- Are ‘Integrated Space Fires’ Kinetic or Not?
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Business/FinancialRTX To Pay U.S. Government $200 Million To Resolve Alleged Export Violations
The State Department last Friday said that aerospace and defense contractor RTX [RTX] has agreed to pay $200 million in penalties to resolve self-disclosed unauthorized defense exports, including classified articles, […]
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Homeland SecurityAustal Begins Construction Of Fifth Coast Guard Offshore Patrol Cutter
Austal USA last Thursday said it has begun construction of the Coast Guard’s fifth offshore patrol cutter (OPC), the future Coast Guard Cutter Pickering, under a potential $3.3 billion contract […]
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