Missile Defense
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BudgetSpecial Aerospace Services Adds Missile And Hypersonic Weapons Company To Portfolio
Special Aerospace Services (SAS) on Monday said it has acquired Concordia Technologies, which has expertise in hypersonic weapons and missile defense modeling and simulation, a deal that adds to its […]
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Air ForceTarantulas and Asian Giant Hornets Subplot in RTX Settlement with DoJ
Tarantulas and Asian giant hornets in Taiwan are a subplot of a nearly $1 billion settlement RTX [RTX] reached last week with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). Deterring a […]
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Missile DefenseArmy Officials Talk Missile Defense Production Improvements, Relieving OpTempo
Army officials on Tuesday argued how they are working to reduce the high operational tempo of high demand missile defense systems like Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) and Patriot […]
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ArmyArmy Has Some Air and Missile Defense System Production Bottlenecks, But FMS Helps Push Down Costs
An Army acquisition official Monday emphasized the importance of tamping down costs in air and missile defense systems while illustrating concerns about bottlenecks in the microelectronic sector. “I think a […]
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Missile DefenseMDA Investigating Low-Cost Interceptor Concepts, Envisions Two-Year Sprints
The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) last week published a notice that it was conducting market research to find innovative missile defense system technologies, architectures, and concepts to help develop low-cost […]
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Missile DefenseU.S. To Deploy THAAD To Israel To Increase Air Air And Missile Defense Amid Iran Conflict
The Defense Department on Sunday said President Biden directed the deployment of one Lockheed Martin [LMT] Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) battery and associated U.S. military crew to Israel to […]
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SpacePDR for FOO Fighter Done, Millennium Says
Boeing‘s [BA] Millennium Space Systems in El Segundo, Calif., said on Monday that it has finished preliminary design review (PDR) of the company’s low Earth orbit Fire-control On Orbit-support-to-the-war Fighter […]
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Missile DefenseL3Harris To Provide Propulsion For Northrop GPI
L3Harris Technologies [LHX] recently said it will provide hypersonic missile defense prime contractor Northrop Grumman [NOC] with two solid rocket motors to the Glide Phase Interceptor (GPI). Last week, the […]
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MDA Chooses Northrop Grumman For Hypersonic Defender Over RTX
The Missile Defense Agency on Wednesday selected Northrop Grumman [NOC] over RTX [RTX] to continue developing the counter-hypersonic missile defense program, the Glide Phase Interceptor (GPI). MDA said this means […]
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ArmyArmy, Leidos Successfully Intercept Air Targets With Enduring Shield
A mobile, ground-based air defense system being developed by Leidos [LDOS] successfully intercepted targets in live testing with the Army, the company said on Tuesday. The Enduring Shield launchers fired […]