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Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) was chosen to chair the House Science and Technology Committee space and aeronautics subcommittee that oversees NASA, and authorizes its programs. Gifford’s husband, Mark Kelley, is...

CBO Sees Missile Defense Annual Outlays Up About $4 Billion Killing European Missile Defense Would Save $4 Billion Yearly Spending on ballistic missile defense (BMD) programs will peak at about...

Chairman Levin Endorses Lynn, Ex-Raytheon Leader, After OMB Gives Assent A key Senate leader endorsed President Obama’s nomination of William Lynn, a former executive with missile maker Raytheon Co. [RTN],...

President Obama told Israeli and other Middle East leaders that he is determined to stop weapons being smuggled into the Gaza Strip, where Hamas terrorists already have fired thousands of...

Northrop Grumman Corp. [NOC] named Scott A. Lee vice president of space systems for Northrop Electronic Systems. In his new position, Lee will have executive responsibility for all space systems...

The Integrated Battle Command System [IBCS] completed a milestone, Raytheon Co. [RTN] announced. During the "System Functional Laydown" to the Army customer, Raytheon and its subcontractors presented a system software...

Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) donated experimental payload space aboard an upcoming flight of the Dragon spacecraft to support the Heinlein Trust Microgravity Research Competition. The winner’s experimental payload will...

The Standard Missile-2 (SM-2) target detecting system passed a test while executing the lowest altitude intercept thus far, Raytheon Co. [RTN] announced. That SM-2 Block IIIB system was tested by...

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) successfully conducted a static fire test of the propulsion system for its new strategic target. That two-stage launch vehicle, or LV-2, is part of the...

NASA is a step closer to the first flight test of the rocket that will send humans on their way to the moon as part of the agency’s Constellation Program....