Market Sectors :: Business
January 5, 2009
The Air Force shut down the existing Transformational Satellite Communications (TSAT) program competition without awarding a contract. Instead, the restructured contest now moves back to square one, with the air service issuing a new draft request for...
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January 5, 2009
NASA Administrator Mike Griffin bluntly told Robert J. Stevens, chairman, president and CEO of Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT], to stop trying to kill the future Ares I rocket, according to an Orlando Sentinel report quoting anonymous industry officials. The...
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January 5, 2009
Space Agency Moves To Foster Private Commercial Logistics Spacecraft NASA, in a double departure from business as usual, has taken a giant step toward privatizing the transport of cargo to and from low Earth orbit, while also shifting from the common practice...
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January 5, 2009
Long-Term Contract To Be Decided In Impending Obama Administration The Missile Defense Agency gave The Boeing Co. [BA] a cost-plus-award-fee contract worth up to $397.9 million to continue the Ground-base Midcourse Defense (GMD) program for six months...
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January 5, 2009
Systems Upgrading Work Will Proceed On Navy Destroyers , Cruisers The Government Accountability Office (GAO) denied Raytheon Co. [RTN] protests against several sole-source, non-competitive contracts that the Navy earmarked for Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] for...
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January 5, 2009
The value of missile defense systems has been proven by the unending torrent of missiles that Hamas has launched into Israel from the Gaza Strip, a U.S. missile defense expert stated, urging Israel to rush further development and fielding of the Iron Dome and...
http://www.defensedailynetwork.com/sectors/business/5188.html
January 5, 2009
Lockheed Decides To Use Ariane 5 Rocket To Launch Satellite For Japanese Operators In Liftoff From South American Spaceport Arianespace announced it will provide lift capability to orbit several satellites in three planned launches. Arianespace was selected...
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January 5, 2009
An Ariane 5 heavy lifter rocket lifted off from the spaceport at Kourou, French Guiana, South America, to launch two telecommunications satellites into geostationary transfer orbits. Those satellites were accurately injected into the correct transfer orbits...
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January 5, 2009
A Non Line-of-Sight-Launch System's Precision Attack Missile completed the third guided test flight for the weapon class. NetFires LLC, a joint venture between Raytheon Co. [RTN] and Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] unit Missiles and Fire Control, completed the...
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January 5, 2009
The Army gave Raytheon Co. [RTN] a not-to-exceed $3.3 billion order for advanced Patriot air and missile defense capability, whole life support and training for the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Raytheon and teammate Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] worked with the...
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January 5, 2009
Liftoff Seen Soon A Falcon 9 rocket has been fully integrated at Cape Canaveral, Fla., poised for a liftoff early this year, Space Exploration Technologies Corp., or SpaceX, announced. The Falcon 9 is the large SpaceX rocket, and key to its hopes to become a...
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January 5, 2009
Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] delivered the spacecraft bus subsystems for the emergent Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS) satellite, Lockheed announced. It will be the second geosynchronous orbit (GEO-2) satellite in the system. The GEO-2 spacecraft core...
http://www.defensedailynetwork.com/sectors/business/5203.html
December 27, 2008
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) Dec. 22 denied Raytheon's [RTN] protests against several sole-source, non-competitive contracts that the Navy earmarked for Lockheed Martin [LMT] for modernization of Aegis weapon-control systems on Ticonderoga...
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December 23, 2008
The private equity firm Metalmark Capital has acquired Schafer Corp., a provider of systems engineering and integration services to government agencies, the firms announced on Monday. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Schafer had net income of $8 million...
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December 22, 2008
By Emelie Rutherford The Pentagon's number-two officer said last week the military must treat cyber security as a weapon system and weigh hard decisions when boosting cyber-warfare efforts, including the extent to which it reorients traditional squadrons and...
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