Author: Staff Writer

Canada and the United States renewed the North American Aerospace Defense (NORAD) agreement, broadening the pact to include guarding against potential attacks from the sea in addition to detecting missile...

Microsoft Corp. and the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) signed an agreement to develop new technologies for delivering geospatial data via the Internet, the organizations announced May 11. Under a...

The Navy awarded Lockheed Martin Corp. a $61.4 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for work on the fleet ballistic missile (FBM) program. Lockheed Martin Missiles and Space Co. of Sunnyvale, Calif., will...

Lockheed Martin has been awarded a contract by state-owned Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications Group to manufacture and deliver Vietnam’s first telecommunications satellite, Lockheed Martin announced May 12. Under the terms...

The Air Force gave Raytheon Co. a $21.8 million firm fixed price contract change to move toward providing advanced medium range -to-air missiles (AMRAAM). Raytheon Missile Systems, of Tucson, Ariz.,...

Integral Systems Inc. announced May 10 that it received a $21.5 million contract modification from the U.S. Air Force to the Command and Control System- Consolidated (CCS-C) effort. The modification,...

Seamobile Inc. has acquired Maritime Telecommunications Network Inc., a provider of satellite-based broadband communications and networking services for the maritime industry, Seamobile announced May 11. Terms of the agreement were...

Shin Satellite Plc lost in the 2006 first quarter despite a jump in revenues, the company announced May 10. Shin Satellite, which operates the IPstar broadband satellite, lost 58 million...

News Corp. reported third quarter earnings of $820 million, more than double the same period a year ago, as a strong performance from the company’s satellite TV operations around the...

New Skies Satellites has signed a framework agreement with the Netherlands Ministry of Defense to provide capacity aboard the NSS-7 and NSS-703 satellites for use by the Netherlands Armed Forces,...