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Tewksbury - Jan 29, 2004Raytheon Company has been awarded a $138 million U.S. Navy contract for AEGIS Weapon System (AWS) radar equipment for three new Arleigh Burke class DDG-51 destroyers and one Japanese Kongo Class destroyer. LockMart Signs MoU With Polish Firm For Missile Defense Projects 
Syracuse - Jan 29, 2004Lockheed Martin signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Poland's leading defense electronics company, Przemyslowy Instytut Telekomunikacji (PIT), to pursue industrial cooperation related to missile defense, initially focusing on radar technologies. |
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Boeing Conducts Successful GMD Integrated Flight Test
St. Louis - Jan 29, 2004Boeing announced today the successful launch of a missile defense interceptor boost vehicle from the Ronald Reagan Missile Site, at Kwajalein Atoll in the Republic of the Marshall Islands, at 9:23 p.m. EST. Orbital Carries Out Third Launch of Missile Defense Interceptor Vehicle
Dulles - Jan 29, 2004Orbital Sciences Corporation said Tuesday that the company's missile defense interceptor boost vehicle, being developed and manufactured for the U.S. Missile Defense Agency's (MDA) Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system, carried out its third fully successful test flight late yesterday. Northrop Grumman Fire Control Software Guides Missile Test 
Reston - Jan 27, 2004Northrop Grumman Corporation played a vital role in today's test of the Ground-based Midcourse Defense missile defense system, supplying two key products that helped guide the test to a successful outcome. USAF Awards $472 Million Deal For Transformational Comms Program 
Sunnyvale - Jan 27, 2004A joint Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman team has been awarded one of two industry contracts valued at approximately $472 million to enter the Risk Reduction and System Definition phase of the U.S. Air Force's Transformational Communications MILSATCOM (TCM) Space Segment. TCM will provide thousands of users with significantly improved, highly mobile, beyond line-of-sight protected communications to support the future battlefield. Florida Tech Researching Hacker Attack Models 
Melbourne, Fl - Jan 21, 2004Blaster, Slammer and Code Red. These Internet worms in the past year have cost billions of dollars in damage after causing software engineers worldwide to scramble to stop them. Such worms, computer viruses and hacker-introduced program bugs are the targets of Florida Tech researchers who recently received a $70,000 Air Force Research Laboratory grant to model all possible hacker exploits. Monitoring Nuclear Explosions: Why, How, and What is Learned? 
New York - Jan 21, 2004A presentation by Dr. Paul G. Richards, Columbia University Recent headlines have revealed the fragility of the international bans on nuclear weapons proliferation and testing. Pakistan has been accused of indiscriminately disclosing nuclear weapons technology. Northrop Grumman Receives Milsatcom Network Study Contract 
Reston - Jan 19, 2004The U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Command has awarded Northrop Grumman Corporation's Mission Systems sector a contract to define the requirements needed to build a communications network for military, intelligence and space agencies. The Transformational Communications MILSATCOM (TCM) network, which will be based on a single, overarching communications architecture, will transform the way the Pentagon conducts its military operations. |
The European Tactical Military Communications Market
New York - Jan 19, 2004Difficult battles loom ahead for the $1794.9-million European tactical military communications market. The inability of European governments to reallocate funding from platform-centric to connectivity-centric systems remains a matter of concern. Pockets of strong growth driven by technological advances and evolving military doctrines are, however, expected to sustain the market's steady expansion to $2249.3 million in 2013. Bush Unveils Deeper US-India Space, Nuclear Cooperation 
Monterrey (AFP) Jan 12, 2004US President George W. Bush announced Monday that the United States and India would deepen cooperation on civilian nuclear activities, civilian space programs and high-technology trade. Bush Unveils Deeper US-India Space, Nuclear Cooperation
Monterrey (AFP) Jan 12, 2004US President George W. Bush announced Monday that the United States and India would deepen cooperation on civilian nuclear activities, civilian space programs and high-technology trade. In a statement released on the margins of the Summit of the Americas here, Bush said that he and Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee had also agreed "to expand our dialogue on missile defense." Lockheed Martin To Develop New Next Generation Missile Defense 
Sunnyvale - Jan 08, 2004Lockheed Martin has won a contract from the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) to further develop and demonstrate the first system capable of destroying multiple ballistic missile threats and decoys with a single launch. The system will carry multiple small kill vehicles that will destroy adversarial missiles and decoys by colliding with them in space. The eight-year contract is valued at approximately $760 million; the initial 11-month contract is valued at $27 million. The U.S. Army Space & Missile Defense Command in Huntsville, Ala., manages the program for the MDA. Both Civil and Military Needs Driving European UAV Market 
San Jose - Jan 07, 2004Recent military developments and the United States' inclination to use unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is expanding the global market for these systems and accelerating the development of such specialised weapons in Europe, reveal latest findings by Frost & Sullivan. Fire Scout Scores Its Own Century 
San Diego - Jan 07, 2004On Dec. 17, the 100th anniversary of manned flight, the U.S. Navy's RQ-8A Fire Scout vertical takeoff and landing tactical unmanned aerial vehicle (VTUAV) system made its own history by completing its 100th consecutive successful flight. Lockheed Built Communications Satellite Begins Operations For USAF 
Sunnyvale - Jan 05, 2004In late December a U.S. Air Force/Lockheed Martin team successfully completed on-orbit checkout and testing of the Defense Satellite Communications System (DSCS) spacecraft that was launched on Aug. 29, 2003 from Cape Canaveral Air Station, Fla. Aboard a Delta IV rocket. The satellite, the last of 14 DSCS III spacecraft built by Lockheed Martin, has now begun its controlled drift to its operational location. |
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