But Kennedy Loss Now Seen As Less Than Earlier Estimate Of 5,000 Or More Thousands Of Space Workers To Lose Paychecks As U.S. Economy Begins Slipping Into Downturn Thousands of NASA and contractor workers will lose their jobs at Kennedy Space Center and other installations when the space shuttle ...

The Missile Defense Agency will host a small business conference at Huntsville, Ala., next month. That event will be held July 21-22 at the Von Braun Center North Hall. Theme for this year's conference is "MDA: Teaming for Global Missile Defense." The conference will begin with a ...

The United States should agree to negotiate a global ban on weapons in space and the use of anti-satellite weapons, because erecting a military shield to defend satellites would be technologically daunting and far too costly, academics argued today. But they concede that such a ban would not ...

While improvements have been made in both areas, the Energy Department still has significant lapses in implementing key security procedures designed to block access to sensitive data by DoE workers who no longer have a "need to know" and by foreign nationals visiting department laboratories to ...

By George Lobsenz While improvements have been made in both areas, the Energy Department still has significant lapses in implementing key security procedures designed to block access to sensitive data by DoE workers who no longer have a "need to know" and by foreign nationals visiting department ...

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.--Army aviation must not defer hard decisions to remain agile, lethal and successful, according to the Army Vice Chief of Staff. "The branch since its inception has made the hard choices," Gen. Richard Cody told the Army Aviation Association of America annual conference here. ...

By Ann Roosevelt NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.--Army aviation must not defer hard decisions to remain agile, lethal and successful, according to the Army Vice Chief of Staff. "The branch since its inception has made the hard choices," Gen. Richard Cody told the Army Aviation Association of America ...

By Ann Roosevelt U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) is planning a Special Operations Forces (SOF) industry conference next month in Tampa, Fla. The Greater Tampa Bay Chamber of Commerce is hosting the May 20-22 conference at the Tampa Convention Center. SOCOM is the lead combatant command ...

Boeing [BA] has successfully completed a series of tests using modified ship-based ScanEagle Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) to track simulated biological plumes, collect the airborne agents, return the craft to the ship to retrieve the samples and then re-launch the craft. The tests, which began ...

By Calvin Biesecker Boeing [BA] said recently it has successfully completed a series of tests using modified ship-based ScanEagle Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to track simulated biological plumes, collect the airborne agents, return the craft to the ship to retrieve the samples and then ...