Government/Military

GMD System Operations And Sustainment At Stake; Missile Defense Agency Contract Sought Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] will take on The Boeing Co. [BA] in a fight for an operations and...

The NOAA-N Prime spacecraft completed its 45-day on-orbit verification, Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] announced. NOAA-N is the final Polar Operational Environmental Satellite (POES) that was launched Feb. 6. Lockheed built...

Military May Lose Laser Capability In Killing Enemy Missiles; Industrial Base Is Threatened By Budget Moves Legislators Write Letter To Gates A bipartisan group of legislators told Secretary of Defense...

Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] is opening its Altair lunar lander program office in Houston. The company is vying for a NASA contract to design and build the human lander that...

[Satellite News 03-19-09] While there will be plenty of launch opportunities within India, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) also hopes to make inroads internationally in the next five years,...

[Satellite Today 03-19-09] The Civil and Commercial Applications Project (CCAP) group within the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) asid the geolocation accuracy and performance of Infoterra’s TerraSAR-X data product exceeds...

[Satellite Today 03-18-09] Symmetricom has been awarded a contract from ITT Corp. to provide components for the GPS 3 system, Symmetricom announced March 16.     Under the terms of the...

[Satellite Today 03-18-09] United Launch Alliance (ULA) won a contract valued at about  $600 million from NASA to launch four science and satellite communications missions beginning in 2011, the ULA...

[Satellite Today 03-18-09] ViaSat  received an order from the U.S. Army for initial production of the next generation Blue Force Tracking (BFT-2) transceivers for the Force 21 Battle Command Brigade...

[Satellite Today 03-18-09] Arrowhead Global Solutions has been awarded a pair of multimillion dollar contracts to provide more than 200 megahertz of commercial X-band satellite services to two U.S. government...