Author: Staff Writer

Democratic and Republican members of both the House and Senate lavishly and repeatedly praised NASA Administrator Michael Griffin for his excellent leadership of the space agency, but the legislators were...

NASA could accelerate its Constellation program to get Americans back on the moon sooner than now planned, so as to beat the Chinese in their drive toward a manned mission...

The Airborne Laser (ABL) ballistic missile defense (BMD) system worked well in its first in-flight test of the laser targeting system, the Missile Defense Agency reported. In the test Thursday,...

Rep. Ike Skelton (D-Mo.), the House Armed Services Committee chairman, proposed a bill to reform defense contracting. It would curb use of sole source contracts while encouraging use of fixed-price...

Potential budget cuts for the next two years in the United States portion of funding for the U.S., German and Italian-funded Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS) air defense missile...

The Army Space and Missile Defense Command gave L-3 Communications [LLL] unit SYColeman an indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract to develop an advanced intelligent software technology. It would be used for...

With the American space program facing tight budgetary times, a key senator called for a bipartisan summit meeting with the White House on the future of NASA. Sen. Barbara A....

SpacerX Sees DemoFligbht2 Launch Close At Hand SpaceX expects to launch DemoFligbht2 soon, with liftoff tentatively set for 4 p.m. PT today. Last week, “We had a very successful static...

The Navy gave Raytheon Co. [RTN] a $30 million modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract for Joint Standoff Weapons (JSOW). In the latest work, Raytheon will provide 118 JSOW...

The Army also gave Raytheon a $38.6 million contract to upgrade Patriot Advanced Capability-2 (PAC-2) missiles to PAC-3s, the company announced. That contract is for test equipment upgrades and engineering...