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 ...

Republicans Assert Testing Issue A Pretext Democrats Use To Justify Slashing Funds For Missile Defense In Fiscal 2010 Budget Cuts That Harm Ground-based Missile Defense Program Would Weaken U.S. Defense Against Long-Range Or ICBM Enemy Missiles The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) is poised to increase ...

Deferring Or Killing Some Missile Defense Programs Gambles Cities Won't Be Lost Some members of Congress are considering cuts in ballistic missile defense programs that amount to a gamble that potential rogue-state enemies will attack with short- or medium-range missiles, rather than long-range ...

Updated -- Feb. 28, 2009 - 12 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: ...

Still-Developing Missile Defense Programs May Be Cut In Half, Franks Cautions Such Deep Cuts Would Echo Attempts To Eviscerate ABL, KEI, EMD Programs In Budgets; Hearing Set For Wednesday As President Obama continues preparing his first federal budget, and some Democrats in Congress search for ...

United States May Add Missile Curbs To Six-Party Talks With North Korea, Clinton Predicts North Korean moves to launch an intercontinental ballistic missile is "a matter of great concern" to the United States and its allies, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said as she continued her ...