Government/Military

The Boeing Co. [BA] gave NASA a proposal for Altair lunar lander design support. NASA is expected to award multiple contracts this spring. The lunar lander, part of the Constellation...

Report Appeared In Russian Paper President Obama offered to kill plans to build the European Missile Defense (EMD) system if Russia would help the United States force Iran to abandon...

NASA gave Oceaneering International Inc. an interim letter contract for the next-generation American spacesuit. Oceaneering, of Houston, will begin work on designing, developing and producing a new spacesuit system for...

NASA selected Bell Helicopter Textron, The Boeing Co. [BA] and Sikorsky Aircraft Corp., a unit of United Technologies Corp. [UTX] to compete for task orders in a total $40 million...

[Satellite Today 03-02-09] The Aerospace Industries Association (AIA) has called President Obama’s 2010 proposed fiscal budget, “solid for defense, space and civil aviation” in a Feb. 27 statement from AIA...

Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] gave Alliant Techsystems Inc. [ATK] a $90 million contract to provide solid rocket propulsion systems for the three stages of the Navy Trident II D-5 fleet...

Northrop Grumman delivered the final flight module cooler assemblies for the Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) sensor to ITT Corp., Northrop Grumman announced Feb. 27.     The delivery, which consists of...

NASA Fiscal 2010 Budget Provides $900 Million Increase Over Fiscal 2009 Base Level, New Obama Document States Space Agency Budget Plan Attracts Praise, But It Also Is Seen As Short...

NASA and industry engineers successfully completed the second drop test of a drogue parachute for the Ares I rocket at the Army Yuma Proving Ground near Yuma, Ariz. The Ares...

[Satellite Today 02-27-09] Raytheon Systems Ltd., a subsidiary of Raytheon Co. received a $1.4 million contract from the U.S. Air Force for initial production of the GPS Advanced Digital Antenna...