Missile Defense
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WeaponsAvio Plans More Than $400 Million Spend, Much of It on U.S. SRM Production
Shareholders in Italy’s Avio SpA have approved the company’s $465 million 10-year investment plan targeted at building solid rocket motors (SRMs) for DoD missiles and munitions. “The core of Avio’s […]
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Missile DefenseNorthrop Grumman And LIG Nex1 To Collaborate On Korean Air And Missile Defense, May Integrate IBCS
Northrop Grumman [NOC] and South Korean aerospace and arms manufacturer LIG Nex1 signed a memorandum of Understanding this week to collaborate on air and missile defense capabilities for South Korea. […]
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Advanced / Transformational TechnologyApex Planning On-Orbit Demonstration Of Commercially Developed Space Based Interceptor Next June
Satellite bus designer and manufacturer Apex next summer plans to demonstrate commercially-developed space-based interceptor (SBI) technology to reduce risk for a key component of the Trump administration’s Golden Dome homeland […]
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ArmyRTX Expanding Production Facility For LTAMDS Radar
RTX’s [RTX] Raytheon division this week announced it recently broke ground on a new 23,ooo square-foot expansion of its Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensor (LTAMDS) production facility in […]
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ArmyGlass “Half Full” To Revive Canceled Next-Gen Patriot Interceptor, Army Official Says
An Army official this week said it looks like the Army will move forward on some aspects of the previously canceled Lower-Tier Future Interceptor (LTFI) program it had been pursuing […]
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Missile DefenseMDA Extends Golden Dome SHIELD Solicitation Due To Heavy Interest
The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) on October 2 extended the submission period for responses for the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) multiple award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) […]
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InternationalLockheed Martin Starts Land-Based Testing Of Japan’s Aegis Ship SPY-7 Radar
Lockheed Martin [LMT] started initial light off ground-based testing for the Japan-bound Aegis System Equipped Vessel (ASEV)’s shipset 1 SPY-7 radar system on schedule, the company announced Tuesday. The testing […]
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Missile DefenseKratos Says It Completed PDR in April for SDA’s Advanced Fire Control Ground Integration Program
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. [KTOS] said on Monday that it finished the Preliminary Design Review (PDR) for the Space Development Agency’s (SDA) Advanced Fire Control Ground Integration (AFCGI) […]
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Air ForceUSAF Considers Upgrades for Cobra King Missile Defense Radar
The U.S. Air Force is mulling upgrades to the Cobra King X-band and S-band radar for the U.S. Navy Military Sealift Command’s USNS Howard O. Lorenzen (T-AGM-25) by Bollinger Shipyards. […]
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Missile DefenseL3Harris Talks Alignment with Outline for Golden Dome
U.S. Space Force systems may account for two-thirds of DoD spending on an extensive Golden Dome missile defense architecture, according to an American Enterprise Institute report this month, as DoD […]