Month: October 2006

The Army gave Raytheon Co. [RTN] a contract to provide heavy anti-tank, precision assault missiles for the military, a pact worth an initial $163.2 million that contains a potential five...

The European Union approved Oct. 12 a step that enables the European Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) Supervisory Authority to complete the development phase of the Galileo program. By a...

Intermap Technologies Corp. announced that its subsidiary, Intermap Technologies GmbH, received a contract from an international client for geospatial data valued at $3.7 million. Under the agreement, Intermap will process...

NASA Reopens Old Kennedy Space Center Building For New Uses NASA has reopened giant doors on an old Kennedy Space Center building that constitutes a once and future gateway to...

Northrop Grumman Corp. [NOC] established a high technology Missile Defense Engineering and Analysis Center (MDEAC). The company describes it as a state-of-the-art capability that will support the nation’s integrated air...

As NASA moves to realize President Bush’s vision for space exploration, other NASA programs may be harmed, according to a report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO). On the one...

The board of International Launch Services Inc. (ILS) appointed Frank McKenna the company’s president, as Lockheed Martin Corp. completed the sale of its interests in the international joint venture. Lockheed...

President Bush vowed to increase cooperation with allied nations on ballistic missile defense. In a Rose Garden news conference at the White House Wednesday, Bush said the United States will...

A new version of the National Space Policy, the first in a decade, says the United States must have both defense and peaceful use of outer space, and also the...