Space & Missile Defense Report

The 50th Space Wing at Schriever AFB, Colo., has completed the first of a two-phase Global Positioning System (GPS) constellation expansion known as “Expandable-24,” the wing said recently. When fully […]

Teams led Lockheed Martin [LMT]-Raytheon [RTN] and Boeing [BA]-Northrop Grumman [NOC] last week submitted proposals for the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) Development and Sustainment Contract to the Missile Defense Agency’s […]

Raytheon [RTN] and Lockheed Martin [LMT] have each received a $107 million contract for preliminary design of a next- generation tracking radar that will monitor objects in space. Under the […]

Air Force Space and Missile Command (SMC), along with industry counterparts at Northrop Grumman [NOC] plan to have a contract in place for the service’s new defense weather satellite system […]

Raytheon [RTN] last week said it received a $145 million Foreign Military Sales production contract for Patriot Guidance Enhanced Missiles-Tactical (GEM-T) to augment Kuwait’s air and missile defense. The U.S. […]

United Launch Alliance (ULA) recently launched a second classified spy satellite for the National Reconnaissance Office from a launch pad at Vandenberg AFB, Calif., the company said. A Delta 4 […]

Lawmakers are trying to stop NASA from spending more money on the dismantled Constellation program and pushing back at the space agency’s claim that it can’t build a new heavy- […]

The Pentagon’s Missile Defense Agency (MDA) said it has delayed a repeat attempt to destroy a target missile using a chemical laser integrated into a Boeing [BA] 747 aircraft. The […]

By Ann Roosevelt The Army’s first service-built and operated satellite in 50 years exceeded expectations during its short orbital life that is expected to end by burning up while reentering […]