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Redondo Beach - Feb 14, 2004The 22nd Northrop Grumman-built Defense Support Program (DSP) satellite was successfully launched today by the U.S. Air Force from Cape Canaveral Air Station. Raytheon Brings Joint Common Missile Production To Huntsville 
Waltham - Feb 16, 2004Raytheon Company plans to increase its workforce in Huntsville, Ala., with manufacturing work if awarded the contract for the Joint Common Missile (JCM) program later this year. |
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Lockheed Martin Demonstrates Joint Common Missile Target Penetration
Orlando - Feb 16, 2004 Lockheed Martin has successfully demonstrated the ability of its Joint Common Missile (JCM) multi-target warhead and fuze to penetrate fortified urban targets, a key requirement of the U.S. military's next-generation air-to- ground precision missile. K-State Professor To Give Paper On Potential Impact Of Ag Bioterrorism 
Manhattan - Feb 16, 2004The key to minimizing impact is early detection and accurate diagnosis. The earlier the detection and diagnosis, the earlier the response; the earlier the response the lower the impact. That's the basic philosophy whether dealing with a human disease like cancer or one in plants like karnal bunt of wheat. Or an occurrence of bioterrorism. US Army To Deploy Lockheed Martin Aerostat Surveillance Systems In Iraq 
Akron - Feb 16, 2004The US Army awarded Lockheed Martin a $1.6 million contract to provide the first of two 56,000-cubic-foot tethered aerostat surveillance systems for deployment in Iraq. The aerostats, equipped with various sensors, will provide a persistent surveillance capability in the defense of ground forces and high-value assets in Baghdad. Lockheed Martin To Integrate Pod Onto Thunderbolt 
Orlando - Feb 16, 2004Lockheed Martin has been awarded a contract to integrate the Sniper XR targeting pod on the A-10 aircraft in support of the A-10 Precision Engagement (PE) Program. The contract award follows a successful demonstration of the Sniper system during the A/OA-10 Precision Engagement upgrade program's critical design review. Network Centric Warfare Concepts Get High Level Battle Exercise 
Melbourne - Feb 13, 2004A team led by Northrop Grumman Corporation has refined the definition and functionality of its proposed architecture for a next generation U.S. Air Force battle management system with an exercise involving live and simulated military components. E-10A Aircraft Program Concludes System Requirements Review
Melbourne - Feb 13, 2004The U.S. Air Force and the Northrop Grumman-led team developing the service's E-10A Multi-Sensor Command and Control Aircraft (MC2A) have successfully completed the program's systems requirements review (SRR). First Lockheed Martin-Built Milstar Satellite Marks 10 Years In Service 
Sunnyvale - Feb 13, 2004The first U.S. Air Force Milstar communications satellite, built by a team led by Lockheed Martin, has achieved its 10-year design life of on-orbit service, providing our nation's warfighters with secure and reliable communications during military operations since 1994. |
ATK Orion Motors Power Orbital Sciences Interceptor Boost Vehicle
Minneapolis - Feb 11, 2004Alliant Techsystems (ATK) supplied three solid rocket motors used in the successful flight test of an Orbital Sciences Corporation Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) interceptor boost vehicle. Louisiana Professor Receives $1.8 Million For Cybersecurity Research 
Baton Rouge - Feb 11, 2004The National Science Foundation has awarded a $1.8 million grant to Peter Chen, M.J. Foster Distinguished Chair Professor of Computer Science at LSU, for his research on "cybersecurity" methods that could aid law enforcement and security agencies in tracking and capturing terrorists and other types of criminals. The grant marks one of the largest LSU has ever received from the Foundation for pure research. Big or Small, Business Needs An IT "Security Team"
Ohio - Feb 11, 2004With computer viruses and other Internet attacks on the rise, even small businesses should create dedicated security teams to minimize the financial and political fallout from these incidents, according to a new book. DRS Tech To Produce Infrared Assemblies for Javelin Missile
Parsippany, N.J. - Feb 11, 2004DRS Technologies, Inc. has received a $23.7 million production contract on the Javelin Anti-Tank Weapon System program. Javelin is the world's premier man-portable, fire-and-forget, medium-range, anti-tank weapon system and is utilized by U.S. Army and Marine Corps combat units. It also is approved through the U.S. Army's Foreign Military Sales (FMS) program for international procurement. Northrop Grumman-Led Team to Compete For Space Based Radar Program 
Redondo Beach - Feb 11, 2004Northrop Grumman has assembled a best-of-industry team to develop the Space Based Radar (SBR) system. SBR is a transformational program designed to bring global, persistent surveillance to military and intelligence community users. The system will be an integral component of the nation's future integrated intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) network. Pathogen Detection For Biodefense
Los Alamos - Feb 11, 2004Saying that "in spite of the developments in both DNA technologies and antibody-based detection strategies, the reality today is that infections are not detected until people get sick," Los Alamos National Laboratory Bioscience Division Leader Jill Trewhella will speak at a proteomics seminar at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Seattle. The session, "Networking Proteins in Biology and Medicine," is scheduled for Saturday, Feb. 14. New Effort To Control, Track And Negate Potential Dirty Bomb Sources
Albuquerque - Feb 11, 2004Small radioactive sealed sources, designed to provide useful tools for measurement and analysis in a variety of industry and laboratory settings, have moved from the beneficial category to the threatening category in the post 9/11 world. |
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