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Raytheon Co. [RTN] plans a mass computerized simulation testing of both Army and Navy missiles, the company stated. This will be a multi-theater, multi-service Single Integrated Air Picture (SIAP) capability...

In a 65-page response to questions from members of Congress, Robert Gates, the president’s nominee to become the next defense secretary, takes a sharply different view from the incoming leader...

Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] delivered the 100th Aegis weapons system to the Navy, the company announced. The system is to be mounted in a destroyer named for retired Rear Adm....

New technology could help track astronauts and robots on the moon, Raytheon Co. [RTN] announced. Raytheon worked on the technology with Hamilton Sundstrand, a unit of United Technologies Corp. [UTX]....

Science Applications International Corp. [SAI] signed a firm-fixed-price contract to support integration of the NATO Active Layered Theater Ballistic Missile Defense (ALTBMD) capability. The contract signing ceremony took place at...

Lockheed Martin Corp. and Boeing Co. have completed the transaction to combine their respective government launch vehicle businesses under the United Launch Alliance LLC (ULA) joint venture, the companies announced...

NASA selected Swales Aerospace of Beltsville, Md., to provide research and technology services to the NASA Langley Research Center. The indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract has a maximum value of...

Alcatel-Lucent, a global communications provider of Internet Protocol (IP) TV, broadband access, carrier IP, IMS and next-generation networks, launched operations Dec. 1 after completion of a merger between Alcatel and...

Goodrich [GR] was chosen by NASA to provide an additional highly accurate, sophisticated optical system — the fine guidance sensor — to the Hubble program. This comes after NASA Administrator...

Echostar Communications Corp. issued a Nov. 30 statement detailing its agreement with Pappas Telecasting Cos. to continue carrying 16 local TV stations owned or operated by Pappas.