Space & Missile Defense Report

MBDA Germany recently said it has supplied a missile threat simulation tool to the German Federal Office of Defense Technology and Procurement (BWB). This system allows simulation of all types […]

President Obama has nominated a new Director for the Missile Defense Agency (MDA), Navy Rear Adm. (lower half) James Syring, who also would be appointed to the rank of vice […]

NASA chose three aerospace companies to continue working over the next two years on commercial spaceships intended to carry astronauts to the International Space Station by 2016. The space agency […]

TeleCommunication Systems Inc. [TSYS] recently said it received a new $19 million delivery order from the Army for field services support and maintenance of Secret Internet Protocol Router and Non-secure […]

ATK [ATK] has developed an expanded product line of small, agile satellite buses in response to customer demands for small satellites and fast deployment. The now available ATK A-series product […]

GenCorp Inc.- [GY] subsidiary Aerojet completed a NASA Solar Electric Propulsion (SEP) mission concept study in June that demonstrated the ability to reduce the mission cost for NASA human exploration […]

The Navy last week awarded Raytheon [RTN] a $51.7 million low-rate initial production (LRIP) contract for Rolling Airframe Missile (RAM) Block 2 production, the company said in a statement. The […]

Lockheed Martin [LMT] has competed on-orbit testing of the first Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) satellite, setting it up for the Navy’s operational test and evaluation ahead of its August […]

Lockheed Martin [LMT] has completed the first flight tests of the sensors for target detection, classification and recognition as part of the development of the Long Range Anti-Ship Missile (LRASM), […]