Space

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 […]

The Navy has awarded Raytheon [RTN] $240 million for production and delivery of critical components of the Aegis weapons system for the Arleigh Burke-class of destroyers, the company said last […]

By B.C. Kessner The Air Force has awarded Raytheon [RTN] a $5 million Defense Acquisition Challenge (DAC) contract to integrate within nine months the company’s Quiet Eyes Laser Turret Assembly […]

By Marina Malenic An extended-range variant of the stealthy Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile (JASSM) recently completed two successful test flights at White Sands Missile Range, N.M., raising JASSM-ER’s record to […]

NASA recently selected Alliant Techsystems [ATK], Miltec Corp., Northrop Grumman [NOC], PnP Innovations Inc., and Sierra Nevada Corp. to help develop multi-mission modular space vehicles. This is an indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity, […]

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, […]