By Emelie Rutherford A Senate panel unveiled a defense appropriations bill yesterday that all but assures continued C-17 aircraft production while leaving the F-35's alternate engine, F-22 jet, and VH-71 presidential helicopter in doubt and likely subject to House-Senate negotiations. The full ...
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Frances's SAFRAN Group yesterday said it has completed its acquisition of 81 percent of General Electric's [GE] Homeland Protection business, which will report to SAFRAN's subsidiary Sagem Securite. The $580 million cash deal gives SAFRAN an entirely new platform of capabilities as well as ...
By Geoff Fein At the same time that the USS Bunker Hill (CG-52) was undergoing her Aegis combat system modernization, the USS Nimitz (CVN-68) was receiving an open architecture tech refresh that included an upgrade to Raytheon's [RTN] Ship Self-Defense System (SSDS), according to a company official. ...
By Ann Roosevelt Through mid-September in the west Texas desert, the Army Test & Evaluation Command's Operational Test Command has begun examining the developmental status of equipment for Infantry Brigade Combat Teams (IBCT) in a limited user test (LUT) ahead of a planned production decision ...
The Latest Word On Trends And Developments In Aerospace And Defense Testing, Take 2. NASA will reschedule a static test of the first stage of the developmental Ares I moon rocket for no sooner than Tuesday, Sept. 1, according to the prime contractor for the rocket's first stage. The stationary ...
The JCSAT-12 communications satellite, designed and built by Lockheed Martin [LMT] for SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation (SKY Perfect JSAT) of Japan, was successfully launched Aug. 21 from Kourou, French Guiana. Lift-off occurred at 6:09 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) aboard an Ariane 5-ECA launch ...
Arianespace is keeping up its mission pace as two additional Ariane 5s are now in process at French Guiana, following the vehicle that launched a payload of two telecommunications satellites on 21 August, with a total of seven Ariane 5 missions targeted for 2009 - making it the busiest year of ...
A satellite launched by South Korea's first space rocket is thought to have burnt up in the Earth's atmosphere after missing its designated orbit, according to AFP Wednesday. Seoul vowed to press on with its drive to become a space technology leader despite Tuesday's setback, caused by the ...
Ceremonies at Raytheon's [RTN] Weapon Integration Center in Camden, Ark., were held to mark the 1,000th delivery of the Evolved SeaSparrow missile used by 10 nations for ship defense. The NATO SeaSparrow Surface Missile System (NSSMS) began life as a program designed to provide a standard weapon ...
By Geoff Fein One of the nagging issues the Navy faces as it looks to implement open architecture is how to deal with a small company's desire to protect its data rights. In the case of the recently awarded Common Processing Systems (CPS), Virginia Beach-based Global Technical Systems (GTS) took ...