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SpaceLockheed Martin Partners With NANA Development For GMD Work
By Ann Roosevelt Lockheed Martin [LMT] and NANA Development Corp. recently said they are partnering in the competition for the Missile Defense Agency’s (MDA) Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD) Development and […]
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Senate NASA Appropriators Back Accelerated Plan For Heavy-Lift Rocket
By Emelie Rutherford A key Senate budget-writing panel endorsed a NASA budget July 22 that largely heeds a new compromise between lawmakers and the White House to build a heavy-lift […]
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Solid Rocket Motor Industry Too Big, Pentagon Says
By Marina Malenic LONDON–The U.S. solid rocket motor industrial base must be consolidated after years of continued overcapacity, the Pentagon’s top industrial policy official said recently. “We are looking at […]
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Derco Signs Agreement With ATK to Distribute Missile Warning and Surveillance Systems
Derco Aerospace, a Sikorsky [UTX] Aerospace Services company, said July 21 that it had signed an agreement with Alliant Techsystems [ATK] to distribute its AAR-47 Missile and Laser Warning System […]
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Alabama Officials Envision ‘Aerospace Corridor’ With New Missile Factory
By Marina Malenic LONDON–Raytheon‘s [RTN] plan to build a new missile facility in Huntsville, Ala., could contribute to a booming aerospace sector on the Gulf Coast, officials from the state […]
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United Space Alliance To Layoff 15 Percent of Shuttle Workforce
The Boeing [BA] and Lockheed Martin [LMT] joint venture United Space Alliance (USA) recently said it will layoff about 15 percent of its current Space Shuttle support workforce to better […]
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NASA Hill Backers Claim Consensus On Bill Hastening Heavy-Lift Rocket
By Emelie Rutherford Key lawmakers and the White House signaled support last week for moving forward with building space technologies based on NASA’s Constellation manned-spaceflight program, which President Barack Obama […]
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Lockheed Martin Selects Marotta to Supply Pneumatic Cooling For JAGM Team
Marotta Controls said Monday that it has been selected by Lockheed Martin [LMT] to join its Joint Air-to-Ground Missile (JAGM) industry team to provide the pneumatic cooling system (PCS) for […]
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Raytheon Awarded $55 Million Contract to Deliver TOW Missiles to Saudi Arabia
Raytheon [RTN] received a $55 million contract to deliver TOW (Tube-Launched, Optically-Tracked, Wireless-Guided) 2A Radio Frequency missiles to the U.S. government as part of a foreign military sale to Saudi […]
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STSS Demonstration Satellites Detect, Track Test Launch of an ICBM
The Space Tracking and Surveillance System (STSS) Demonstration program satellites, built by Northrop Grumman [NOC] and Raytheon [RTN] detected and tracked an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) launched on June 16 […]