Business/Financial

By Emelie Rutherford Congress should move quickly to confirm a new Air Force secretary and chief of staff so questions about the protested tanker contract can be answered and the […]

Contractors, Others, Are Briefed On Requirements To Create A Lunar Community; What The Stylish Spacewalker Will Wear For A Stroll Through Town Designing Habitat Is Challenging: How To Supply Air […]

Senate Panel Blasts $295 Billion Of Cost Overruns In Pentagon Programs; That Equals More Than 16 Times NASA Budget, About 30 Times More Than MDA Budget The National Polar-orbiting Operational […]

The House Science and Technology Committee favorably reported out the NASA reauthorization measure that would permit increased funding for the space agency and accelerate the first flight of the next-generation […]

Boeing Gives Ares I Rocket Subcontracts to Three Firms The Boeing Co. [BA] has awarded subcontracts to three small businesses under its NASA Ares I avionics contract. The avionics ring […]

The Navy completed developmental testing of a BAE Systems fiber-optic towed decoy to protect military aircraft against enemy missiles. Those operational tests were performed on the F/A-18 E/F Super Hornet […]

By Emelie Rutherford The Marine Corps could be cleared to buy a batch of short-take-off-and-vertical-landing (STOVL) variants of the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) in early July, after a successful first […]

By Geoff Fein and Emelie Rutherford In a letter to John Young, the Pentagon’s top weapon’s buyer, Rep. Gene Taylor (D-Miss.), raised his concerns that the DDG-1000 has the potential […]

By Calvin Biesecker The final estimated acquisition costs for the Coast Guard’s maritime 911 emergency radio system have increased 46 percent and the last installations won’t be completed until six-years […]

By Emelie Rutherford The Pentagon’s acquisition chief said he is creating a director level-position for space and intelligence capabilities in his office to ensure "corporate-level oversight" of such systems including […]