Rep. Ellen O. Tauscher (D-Calif.), who chairs the House Armed Services Committee strategic forces subcommittee, whom President Obama has chosen for a nonproliferation post in the State Department, made comments today at a Missile Defense Agency symposium presented by the American Institute of ...

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 Dave Ahearn The Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, or THAAD, missile defense system Tuesday night scored another successful hit against a target missile, the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) said. That successful hit was scored at 8:30 p.m. ET Tuesday night, in a daylight test conducted at the ...

Lockheed Martin's [LMT] latest Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) System with flight test-proven terminal intercept capability recently received full certification from the Navy, the company reported yesterday. This newest upgrade to the operational BMD system deployed today adds the capability ...

By Marina Malenic ST. LOUIS--Boeing [BA] yesterday unveiled a prototype for a new configuration of its F-15 fighter jet, billed as the Silent Eagle, incorporating some stealth improvements into the nearly 40-year-old platform. "We have looked at the future and listened to our international ...

By Geoff Fein The Navy issued its fifth quarterly open architecture (OA) report to Congress, outlining efforts including the release of an acquisition management plan, a draft architecture description document (ADD), as well as adding or modifying contract language to provide contractors incentives ...

By Geoff Fein As part of the Aegis modernization effort on the USS Bunker Hill (CG-52), Lockheed Martin [LMT] is incorporating CA's [CA] Spectrum Network Fault Manager to monitor the health of the network infrastructure, according to CA. CA helps verify the performance and availability of computing ...

Fuel Line Problems Finally Yield To Probe By Experts; Shuttle Flight Is Safe With No Foam Insulation Problems Seen Discovery Set To Reenter, Land On March 28 And we have liftoff. Spewing brilliant yellow flames and a pink contrail through a deep blue sky at dusk, Space Shuttle Discovery finally ...

How Mutual Assured Destruction That Worked In 20th Century May Fail To Protect Nation In 21st Ballistic Missile Defense Might Be Only Feasible Response To Anonymous Strike The United States is slipping into a vulnerable position where it might be attacked and not know the attacker's identity for ...

When United States Moves To Defend Its Unarmed Ship, China Sends Armed Patrol Boats To International Waters Chinese ships nearly caused a collision with an unarmed U.S. Navy surveillance ship peacefully traversing international waters, causing the United States to send an Aegis destroyer to escort ...