Space

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 […]

The second test firing of the Hard and Deeply Buried Target (HARDBUT) Next Generation Multiple Warhead System (NGMWS) was carried out successfully at the French Biscarrosse test range of the […]

By Emelie Rutherford Even though President Barack Obama signed the NASA policy bill into law, contracts with industry for the soon-defunct Constellation program will continue because Congress has not yet passed […]

Northrop Grumman [NOC] and Boeing [BA] Sept. 27 said they’ve formed a strategic partnership to pursue the potential $850 million competitive contract for the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) Objective Simulation […]

The Navy awarded Lockheed Martin [LMT] a $119 million contract to demonstrate its conceptual designs for the Air and Missile Defense Radar (AMDR) intended to upgrade the Navy’s future capability […]

By Marina Malenic The Air Force successfully launched the first Space Based Space Surveillance spacecraft last week from Vandenberg AFB, Calif., the service said. SBSS is designed to detect, collect, […]

By Marina Malenic The U.S. space industrial base is endangered by unstable program funding, archaic export rules and an aging workforce, according to a new report released by an industry […]