Space

By Marina Malenic A Japanese warship outfitted with the U.S.-manufactured Aegis ballistic defense system recently tracked and destroyed a target missile off the coast of Hawaii, the two governments said. […]

By Marina Malenic The Missile Defense Agency has begun flight tests of a missile tracking sensor aboard an MQ-9 Reaper aircraft, officials from sensor manufacturer Raytheon [RTN] said recently. The […]

Data from the second successful five segment Development Motor (DM-2) test conducted by ATK [ATK] and NASA show that the new motor performed precisely as designed, providing substantially higher performance […]

By Marina Malenic A chemical laser integrated into a Boeing [BA] 747 failed to shoot down a target missile for the second time in a row Thursday, the Missile Defense […]

By B.C. Kessner ATK [ATK] has received a $67-million Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract from the Navy for the production of AAR-47 Missile Warning System Weapon Replaceable Assemblies (WRAs). […]

The Air Force’s second geosynchronous (GEO-2) Space Based Infrared Systems (SBIRS) satellite successfully completed the integration of its two equipment panels onto the spacecraft core module earlier this month at […]

Raytheon [RTN] said it has entered into an agreement with Aselsan of Ankara, Turkey for the codevelopment of a major end item for the Patriot Air and Missile Defense System. […]

Lockheed Martin [LMT] has successfully identified and tracked a target using its Multi-Mission Signal Processor for the Navy’s Aegis system, the third test in a series of exercises that began […]

By Ann Roosevelt Missile defense was high on the agenda as NATO foreign and defense ministers meet in Brussels 14 Oct. Ahead of the meeting, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh […]

By Marina Malenic Boeing [BA] and Northrop Grumman [NOC] Oct. 12 announced their comprehensive partner team to compete for the Missile Defense Agency’s Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) development and sustainment […]