Airborne Laser To Die As Well President Obama will enter a deal with the Russians where the United States will agree to drop or defer indefinitely plans for a European Missile Defense (EMD), even though it is clear now that the Russians wouldn't be able to live up to their part of the deal: ...

Using sea-based Aegis weapon control systems and Standard Missiles to protect Europe from Iranian missile attacks would cost almost twice as much as the European Missile Defense (EMD) system proposed by the Missile Defense Agency (MDA), according to a new report from the Congressional Budget Office ...

Russia is developing an anti-satellite capability, The International Herald Tribune reported, quoting a Russian official. Deputy Defense Minister Gen. Valentin Popovkin said Russia can't remain idle while China and the United States develop and test ASAT capabilities, though he added that Russia ...

Updated -- March 6, 2009 - 12:10 p.m. EST Legend: + Targeted For | *No Earlier Than (Tentative) | **To Be Determined 2009 Launches Date: March 6 Mission: Kepler Launch Vehicle: United Launch Alliance Delta II Launch Site: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station - Launch Complex 17 - Pad 17-B Launch Time ...

By Geoff Fein Next month, the Navy will stand up a new center of excellence at Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren, Va., focused on integration and synchronization of air and missile defense efforts, a service official said. The new Navy Air and Missile Defense Command (NAMDC) will interface with ...

By Ann Roosevelt FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla.--The latest version of the Army's heavy-lift helicopter, the CH-47F Chinook,produced by Boeing [BA], is now deployed to meet current operations, according to officials. "Currently, the 47F is in Iraq for about six months now, and an F unit has been in ...

Cogent Systems [COGT] 4Q08 4Q07 FY08 FY07 Sales $40M $21.9M $125.7M $105.8M Net Inc. $11.5M, 0.13 $7.7M, 0.08 $45.2M, 0.50 $28.6M, 0.30 Sales in the quarter soared 83% on a big boost in revenues from the Department of Homeland Security--which made up over half of the overall sales--and ...

By Geoff Fein Lockheed Martin [LMT] has opened a West Coast Technology Collaboration Center (TCC) to better leverage southern California small businesses, according to a company official. "We have basically replicated TCC East, to a certain extent. We have our LCS (Littoral Combat Ship) COMBATSS 21 ...

Levin Sees Opportunity For Developing European Missile Defense Jointly With Russia Senator: Iranian President Ahmadinejad May Not Be Deterred By U.S. Retaliation Threat From Launching Missile Attack Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), expressed doubt ...

The United States should cut funding for the Ground-based Missile Defense program that aims to take down long-range incoming enemy missiles, focusing instead of systems that counter short- and medium-range enemy weapons, a powerful and prominent congressional leader argued. Rep. Ellen Tauscher ...