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By Michael Sirak The Air Force space czar asked Congress last week to grant the service authority to buy big-ticket, large-sized satellites incrementally, similar to the way the Navy buys...

The Air Force gave Raytheon Co. [RTN] a $180 million firm fixed-price contract for the AMRAAM program. AMRAAM, the advanced medium-range air-to-air missile, a guided weapon, is a supersonic asset....

The Air Force also gave The Boeing Co. [BA] a $46.2 million firm fixed price contract for missile program work. This contract provides 14 CALCM/ALCM Test Instrumentation Kids for the...

A major maneuverability upgrade to the Standard Missile-2 (SM-2) will bolster its performance against new anti-ship weapons, Raytheon announced. Performance of the update, crafted by Raytheon and the Navy, was...

In a new era where China has the capability to destroy space assets such as global positioning system (GPS) satellites, a system being developed would permit troops to find their...

[4/20/07] The U.S. Air Force has issued a $6 million contract for Lockheed Martin to develop and integrate a demonstration payload to temporarily transmit a third civil signal on a...

A payload of 14 satellites was delivered on April 17 in the first launch of a Dnepr rocket since a July 2006 failure, Russian officials reported. Egyptian, Saudi and U.S....

Symmetricom Inc., a provider of precise-time and frequency technologies to accelerate deployment and enable management of next-generation networks, rolled out its 9900 series of hybrid space crystal oscillators comprised of...

GlobeCast successfully provided the first-ever live, high-definition (HD) contribution service from Saint Peter’s Square to Centro Televisivo Vaticano (CTV), the official television station of the Vatican, GlobeCast announced April 19....