Business/Financial

Iran plans to increase its nuclear materials production capacity to more than eight times its current size, Xinhua news agency reported. Iran plans to expand the 6,000 centrifuges to a […]

North Korea confirmed that it is poised to launch a missile, though the North said it was about to orbit a satellite, rather than to test an intercontinental ballistic missile, […]

Loss Of Orbiting Carbon Observatory A Blow To Examining Sources, Destinations Of Greenhouse Gas NASA Goddard Deputy Director To Lead Probe Of OCO Glitch An Orbital Sciences Corp. [ORB] Taurus […]

By Geoff Fein As the Navy and Congress discuss the potential for moving defense contractors to fixed price contracts, all sides need to really examine the risks associated with programs […]

Delay Allows Time To Ensure Kepler Doesn’t Meet Fate Of Satellite Last Week The Kepler space telescope launch has been shifted to Friday night, a day later than planned, so […]

By Emelie Rutherford The Obama administration said yesterday it will send a request to Congress "in the next few weeks" for $75.5 billion in supplemental war funding for the remainder […]

By Geoff Fein With attention focused on the future of Lockheed Martin‘s [LMT] presidential helicopter effort, amid rising costs and a Nunn-McCurdy review, the company is nearing completion of the […]

By Geoff Fein The Navy and the shipbuilding industry need to get into serial production that could also include moving to common hulls forms to keep production costs down and […]

By Geoff Fein The BAE Systems–Lockheed Martin [LMT] Long Range Land Attack Projectile (LRLAP) team recorded a failure of the 155mm round’s rocket motor igniter retainer during a test earlier […]

By Emelie Rutherford The heads of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) said yesterday they hope to seriously curtail the use of cost-plus contracts through the extensive defense-acquisition- reform bill […]