Space

By B.C. Kessner The executive director of Air Force Space Command’s Space and Missile System Center (SMC) said the vagaries of very ambitious satellite and terminal programs caused end dates […]

By B.C. Kessner While the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) continues to operate as it has for decades without a charter, a Memorandum of Agreement formed by NRO, the Director of […]

By Emelie Rutherford Pentagon officials told lawmakers last week their acquisition plans for the new ship-and-land-based missile defense setup for Europe are on track, despite recent criticism from government auditors. […]

Ducommun [DCO] Dec. 1 said that its Miltec subsidiary was selected to help develop multi-mission space vehicles under the U.S. Defense Department’s Operationally Responsive Space (ORS) Office’s Modular Space Vehicles […]

BAE Systems last week said it has received a $60 million readiness and sustainment contract to support the Navy’s Standard Missile (SM) program. “This contract continues our long history of […]

By Marina Malenic The prime contractor for the stealthy Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile (JASSM) is expected to complete retrofits on previously delivered missiles by next fall, while the weapon is […]

By B.C. Kessner Guided munitions, aircraft survivability equipment, advanced sensors, and warfighter security were product areas Lockheed Martin [LMT] planned to enhance when it acquired Bothell, Wash.-based Aculite Corp. in […]

Air Force Reserve helicopter, maintenance and life support personnel from the 920th Rescue Wing Airmen at Patrick AFB, Fla., along with their mission partners from their host wing, the 45th […]

A United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket carrying a payload for the National Reconnaissance Office lifted off from Space Launch Complex-37 in Cape Canaveral Nov. 21. “This second Delta […]

By B.C. Kessner After years of development by a tri-national industry team of air defense giants, the Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS) is on the verge of pre-integration tests, […]