Space & Missile Defense Report

By Marina Malenic A NATO air and missile defense development effort has shown sufficient technological maturity to proceed into its systems integration and flight-testing phases, the system’s manufacturer said last […]

Lockheed Martin [LMT] successfully identified and tracked four live targets during a test of its Multi-Mission Signal Processor (MMSP) being fielded as part of the Aegis next-generation Ballistic Missile Defense […]

By Marina Malenic Boeing [BA] said last week the Air Force has authorized $182 million for the company to begin work on the seventh Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) satellite, which […]

By Emelie Rutherford NASA officials stressed recently that they want ample competition as well as space industry investment in their effort to help private U.S. companies develop systems to carry […]

By Marina Malenic Seeking to trim costs under Defense Secretary Robert Gates’ efficiency initiative, the Missile Defense Agency is examining the possibility of opening tens of billions of dollars worth […]

Lockheed Martin [LMT] said it added some 11 companies to its team in the pursuit of the Missile Defense Agency’s (MDA) Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD) Development and Sustainment Contract. MDA […]

By Marina Malenic The manufacturer of a U.S. theater ballistic missile defense system has agreed to assume additional financial liability to open a production line for the system’s interceptor missiles, […]

The U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) and Northrop Grumman [NOC] have finalized verification and validation of the Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) Performance Assessment 2009 (PA09). “Performance Assessment 2009 was […]

Northrop Grumman [NOC] has delivered the first battery engagement operations center for the Integrated Air and Missile Defense (IAMD) Battle Command System (IBCS) to the U.S. Army. The milestone was […]