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The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) will negotiate a sole-source contract for The Boeing Co. [BA] to continue leading the Ground-based Midcourse Defense program, according to an MDA notice and Boeing...

Counter-Manpads Asset Seen Able To Protect Each Passenger For $1 — Price Of Pop And Peanuts Northrop Hopes Airlines Install Guardian System On Planes For Far Less Than $4 Billion...

NASA Science Chief Stern To Be Replaced By Edward Weiler NASA officials were prepared to curtail movements of Mars Rover Opportunity and to shut down and hibernate Rover Spirit to...

Funding for ballistic missile defense (BMD) programs will slump, a BMD critic predicted, likening support for missile defense to the home-prices bubble and the sub-prime home mortgage industry that just...

The recent successful U.S. shootdown of a failed intelligence satellite by a ballistic missile defense (BMD) system bolstered support for BMD programs, both in Congress and in the American public,...

President Bush is heading to a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin to attempt a resolution of Russian objections to U.S. plans for a ballistic missile defense shield against weapons...

The Czech Republic and Poland likely will agree soon to host the European installation of the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system, according to senior American, Czech and Polish officials. Those...

Endeavour Lands, Wrapping Up Record STS-123 Mission; Almost 16 Days In Space, 5 Spacewalks, 6.6 Million Miles Space Shuttle Discovery Launch Delayed To 5:01 P.M. ET May 31 Because Weather...

Deputy Secretary of Defense Gordon England said that U.S. ballistic missile defense (BMD) programs must receive continued support. "We need to continue to support the programs" that form the layered...

The next Missile Defense Agency budget may switch from a focus on items such as providing more Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) interceptors to "robust" other systems such as sea-based missile...