Space & Missile Defense Report

Canada’s MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. [MDA] recently said it signed an agreement to acquire 100 percent of Space Systems/Loral Inc. (SS/L) for $875 million in a transaction that is […]

The Pentagon’s Missile Defense Agency has conducted a successful test of the sea-based missile defense system, scoring the second intercept in the last two months with an upgraded Aegis Ballistic […]

Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta and Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition Technology and Logistics Frank Kendall have written key senators asking for their support for Fiscal Year 2013 funding […]

A new laboratory that provides thermoplastic composites research for Boeing [ BA] and other aerospace companies has opened at Enschede in the Netherlands. “With this opening, the Thermoplastics Composites Research […]

Defense firms are wrapping up tests of their Air and Missile Defense Radar (AMDR) as part of the Navy competition to build the system intended for the next version of […]

Precision Aerospace Components, Inc. [PAOS], recently said it has acquired Fastener Distribution and Marketing Company (FMDC), which provides fasteners to military, aerospace and other markets. Terms of the deal were […]

Finland has requested a $132 million Foreign Military Sale for 70 M-39 Block 1A Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) T2K Unitary Missiles and associated parts, equipment, logistical support and training, […]

Northrop Grumman [NOC] has rolled out the first production aircraft of the Navy’s version of Global Hawk, an unmanned aerial vehicle designed to perform wide-area maritime intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance […]