Space
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Homeland Security
Russia May Place Nuclear-Tipped Cruise Missiles On Nuclear-Powered Attack Submarines: Russian News Report
Russia may place nuclear-tipped cruise missiles aboard nuclear-powered attack submarines, according to the RIA Novosti Russian news service. The report quoted Russian Vice Adm. Oleg Burtsev, deputy head of the […]
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Business/FinancialCartwright Says Missile Defense Systems Must Be Able To Perform Multiple Missions; Urges Common Use Of Sensors For Systems
General Says Missile Defense Programs Require Stable, Funding Over Years Missile defense programs must be able to handle multiple tasks in a cost-saving and efficient manner, because the military can […]
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Business/Financial
Raytheon Gains $106 Million Pact Providing JSOWs To Navy, Allies
The Navy gave Raytheon Co. [RTN] a $106 million contract to produce Joint Standoff Weapon C-1 missiles for the Navy and key allies. The new C-1 variant will be network-enabled, […]
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Business/Financial
Raytheon Sees Vast New Opportunity For Standard Missile-3 Marketing With Land-Based SM-3s In VLS Tubes
The United States could gain a premier land-based missile defense interceptor, quickly and at low cost, merely by making the currently sea-based Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) interceptors land-based assets as well, […]
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Business/Financial
Raytheon Receives $23 Million Maverick Missiles Contract
The Air Force gave Raytheon Co. [RTN] a $23 million undefinitized with firm fixed price contract for production of 70 Maverick Missiles and a guidance and control section. A unit […]
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Business/Financial
Ares I-X Hardware Arrives At Launch Site Even As Obama Considers Killing Ares Lifter
The Ares I-X rocket is taking shape even as President Obama is considering killing the Ares I program in favor of using an existing military rocket, ignoring protests from space […]
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Business/Financial
Lockheed Takes On Boeing In Fight Over Ground-Based Missile Defense System
GMD System Operations And Sustainment At Stake; Missile Defense Agency Contract Sought Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] will take on The Boeing Co. [BA] in a fight for an operations and […]
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Business/Financial
If Iran Goes Nuclear, It Deals A Blow To Nonproliferation Efforts Globally
If the already existing Iranian nuclear materials production program ends with Tehran wielding nuclear weapons and intercontinental ballistic missiles to deliver them, that grim situation will be made even worse, […]
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SpaceBrilliant Astronaut Resigns From NASA
U.S. Human Space Travel Ends Next Year NASA astronaut Scott Parazynski is leaving the agency to take a job in the private sector. Parazynski, a medical doctor, is a veteran […]
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InternationalSpacewalkers Attach Final Solar Array System To International Space Station, See Arrays Fully Deploy; Station Now Reaches Full Size
Space Shuttle Discovery To Return To Kennedy At 1:14 P.M. ET Saturday; President Obama Chats With Crew Shuttle, Station Have To Dodge Debris In Cluttered Space Environment Spacewalking astronauts attached […]