Space
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Business/FinancialRaytheon Working Toward Anti-Jamming GPS Antenna
A Raytheon Co. [RTN] unit received a U.S. Air Force contract for initial production of the GPS Advanced Digital Antenna Production system. The ADAP system protects GPS-based navigation and precise […]
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Homeland Security
Clinton Expresses ‘Great Concern’ As North Korea Prepares To Launch Long-Range Ballistic Missile
United States May Add Missile Curbs To Six-Party Talks With North Korea, Clinton Predicts North Korean moves to launch an intercontinental ballistic missile is "a matter of great concern" to […]
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Business/FinancialAirborne Laser Unit Fires Long-Duration Beams In Testing
The Airborne Laser (ABL) missile defense system scored another advance, this time in its high-powered laser that can kill enemy missiles. That high-energy laser fired multiple long-duration blasts during intensive […]
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Business/FinancialNorth Korea Defies Global Pressures; It Readies Long-Range Missile Launch
Analyst: Regime Ignored Pressures In 2006, Tested Missile, Nuke; It’s Still Obstinate The West shouldn’t assume that North Korea can be persuaded to abandon its moves toward launching a long-range […]
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Business/FinancialMobile Gantry Moves At South American Spaceport
A mobile gantry performed its initial rollout test at the Spaceport in French Guiana, South America, Arianespace announced. The launch site and mobile gantry for the Arianespace Vega lightweight vehicle […]
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Homeland Security
Think Missile Defense Is Expensive? Try Having No Defense From Missiles
North Korea, Iran Might Use Nuclear ICBMs To Intimidate United States Book Says Possibility of Attack Makes National Missile Defense ‘Attractive’ Even a small nuclear weapon from the North Korean […]
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Homeland Security
Cobra Dane Radar Transferred To Air Force For Missile Defense
The Cobra Dane radar at Shemya, Alaska, was transferred from the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) to the Air Force. The upgraded radar became available for ballistic missile defense operations in […]
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Air ForceExperts See Deep Cuts Coming In Defense Procurement, Myriad Programs At Risk
Defense procurement programs face huge budget cuts, not only in fiscal 2010 but even more in 2011 and the out years, with an immense array of programs in each of […]
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Homeland Security
Obering Joins Schaefer Corp. Board
Retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Henry A. "Trey" Obering III, who was director of the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) until his November retirement, has joined the Schaefer Corp. board of […]
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Business/FinancialHouse To Decide Bill With $2.5 Billion For NASA, NOAA; Mikulski Urges Approval; Money Set For Satellites And Their Sensors
The House this week will consider legislation to provide $1.4 billion for NASA earth science to fund critical satellite missions, funding that merits approval, Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski (D-Md.) said. […]