Long-Term Contract To Be Decided In Impending Obama Administration The Missile Defense Agency gave The Boeing Co. [BA] a cost-plus-award-fee contract worth up to $397.9 million to continue the Ground-base Midcourse Defense (GMD) program for six months, leaving to the Obama administration a decision ...
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Systems Upgrading Work Will Proceed On Navy Destroyers , Cruisers The Government Accountability Office (GAO) denied Raytheon Co. [RTN] protests against several sole-source, non-competitive contracts that the Navy earmarked for Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] for modernization of Aegis weapon-control ...
Updated -- December 19, 2008 - 8:30 a.m. EST Legend: + Targeted For | *No Earlier Than (Tentative) | **To Be Determined 2009 Launches Date: Feb. 4 Mission: NOAA-N Prime Launch Vehicle: United Launch Alliance Delta II Launch Site: Vandenberg Air Force Base - Launch Pad SLC-2 Launch Window: 2:22 - 2 ...
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) Dec. 22 denied Raytheon's [RTN] protests against several sole-source, non-competitive contracts that the Navy earmarked for Lockheed Martin [LMT] for modernization of Aegis weapon-control systems on Ticonderoga cruisers and Arleigh Burke Class destroyers. ...
By Dave Ahearn A rogue state or terrorists could launch an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack on the United States that would kill more Americans than a nuclear strike on a major city, but an EMP attack on the homeland could be defeated with a missile defense system, a noted expert said. That could ...
Lockheed Martin's [LMT] 94th Aegis System entered active service Monday under the flag of the fifth nation to join the worldwide Aegis fleet - the Republic of Korea (ROK), the company said. DDG 991, Sejong the Great, the ROK's first of three Aegis-equipped KDX-III destroyers, was built and tested ...
The year 2008 will be remembered as a time of glittering advances in space and missile defense programs, a time of bright horizons and goals fulfilled. But 2009 at this point is filled with uncertainty, with no guarantees that Democratic President-elect Obama will continue funding for space and ...
Iran and North Korea are at a tipping point, prepared to plunge ahead with nuclear programs and missile development that could lead to a cascade of nuclear proliferation across the planet, a commission report warned. But if the United States erects a robust missile defense shield against a ...
Updated -- December 19, 2008 - 8:30 a.m. EST Legend: + Targeted For | *No Earlier Than (Tentative) | **To Be Determined 2009 Launches Date: Feb. 4 Mission: NOAA-N Prime Launch Vehicle: United Launch Alliance Delta II Launch Site: Vandenberg Air Force Base - Launch Pad SLC-2 Launch Window: 2:22 - 2 ...
By Marina Malenic U.S. fighter jets have been intercepting an average of 400 aircraft per year over U.S. territory since 9/11, though none of those instances has involved any hostile intent, according to the top military officer in charge of North American security. "There are a number of aviators ...