Space & Missile Defense Report

A scheduled unarmed operational test Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile launch took place at 6:35 a.m. on June 22 from Vandenberg AFB. Inclement weather and an interruption in communication with […]

Raytheon [RTN] yesterday said it received a $1.7 billion Direct Commercial Sales contract to upgrade Saudi Arabia’s Patriot Air and Missile Defense System to the latest Configuration-3.   The award […]

Aerojet [GY] QinetiQ, and European Aerospace Defence and Space Co.’s (EADS) Astrium Crisa, said they have entered a joint agreement to supply the XENITH(TM) (Xenon Ion Thruster) ion propulsion system […]

Lockheed Martin [LMT] said recently that its Space Systems division will cut roughly 1,200 employees by year-end. It is anticipated that middle management will be reduced by 25 percent, with […]

ATK‘s [ATK] Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile (AARGM) recently completed an initial flight integration test on the EA-18G Growler electronic warfare aircraft and has completed multiple flight hours of integration testing […]

The U.S. Navy recently awarded Raytheon [RTN] a $51.6 million contract to provide logistics support for the communication terminals of the Navy’s Extremely High Frequency Satellite Program (NESP). The performance-based […]

Lockheed Martin [LMT] recently delivered the first intra-fire unit communications kit qualified for use with the tri-national Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS). This kit, also known as the MEADS […]