Government/Military

But Missile Defense Generally, And The Airborne Laser Especially, Will Face Close Obama Scrutiny While some military analysts have voiced concerns that President-elect Obama will slash defense spending deeply when...

Iran is moving ahead solidly with construction of a little-noticed heavy water reactor, a new study by the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) discloses. If Iran can succeed...

Space Shuttle Endeavour thundered to the heavens and docked with the International Space Station to begin a major makeover of the orbiting laboratory. While the blazing, on-time launch at 7:55...

A Versatile KEI Could Be New Interceptor For Navy Ships, Briefers Say Briefers Have No Word That KEI Funding To Be Cut Under Obama The Kinetic Energy Interceptor (KEI) first...

NASA Administrator Michael Griffin said he would be "happy" to remain in his post if President-elect Obama asked, but Griffin doesn’t expect that request from the newly-elected leader, the Orlando...

By Geoff Fein The Navy is currently not looking to add a maritime variant of the Air Force Joint Air to Surface Standoff Missile (JASSM) to its weapons inventory, relying...

General Warns That Delaying Missile Defense Such As In Europe Would ‘Severely Hurt’ Ability To Defend United States, Allies Against Enemies U.S.-European Missile Defense Scheduled To Be Operational By 2013,...

Updated — November 14, 2008 – 9:10 p.m. EST Legend: + Targeted For | *No Earlier Than (Tentative) | **To Be Determined 2008 Launches Date: Nov. 14 Mission: STS-126 Launch...

U.S. Nuclear Weapons May No Longer Provide Credible Deterrence, Tauscher Says, Urging Nukes Reduction Rep. Ellen Tauscher (D-Calif.), whose subcommittee oversees U.S. missile defense efforts, today questioned the value of...

Kazakhstan will send a cosmonaut to the International Space Station a year or so from now, the Kazakh National Space Agency announced. But funding arrangements for the flight haven’t yet...