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Aurora Flight Sciences Corporation announced today that it has acquired Payload Systems, Inc. of Cambridge, Massachusetts effective October 26, 2007. Payload Systems was founded in 1984 with a mission to provide science and engineering services for spaceflight and terrestrial applications.
Read MoreThe assets have been acquired of a firm whose products operate in environments where wired are undesirable or impractical.
Read MoreRaytheon Company [NYSE: RTN] will pursue the Army's next generation of satellite communications, the High Capacity Communications Capability, or HC3, with a team of com solutions providers. HC3, the next generation of Army SATCOM, is a family of reconfigurable communications terminals that will provide soldiers with high-capacity, multiband, multimode connectivity.
Read MoreNDS has announced another increase in the company’s quarter of earnings, up 25 percent from Q1 07. Quarterly net income of $46.294 million has risen as compared to $35.088 million a year ago.
Read MoreSES has made public their financial results for the three months ended September 30th… the recurring revenue of EUR 405 million was up 9.6 percent over the previous year’s same period of time, with reported revenue being EUR 406.9 million.
Read MoreOrlando, Florida, is this year’s base for the MILCOM 2007 trade show — muggy weather, unexpected rain, but as is the norm with our industry, hard working set up teams have completed their work and the exhibitors lavish the various military and civilian attendees with great attention.
Read MoreThe American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics is hosting the 26th International Communications Satellite System Conference (ICSSC), Global MilSatCom 2007, from November 5th through 7th at the Millennium Conference Center in London, United Kingdom.
Read MoreHartley here, and I will be away for the first three days of this week as I attend the MILCOM 2007 exhibition and conference in Orlando, Florida.
Read MoreLockheed Martin Corporation [NYSE: LMT] today reported third quarter 2007 net earnings of $766 million ($1.80 per diluted share), compared to $629 million ($1.46 per diluted share) in 2006.
Read MoreThe Boeing Company’s [NYSE: BA] third-quarter net earnings increased to $1.1 billion, or $1.44 per share, from $694 million, or $0.89 per share, in the same period last year. Third-quarter revenues increased 12 percent to $16.5 billion while earnings from operations rose to $1.5 billion, yielding a 9.1 percent operating margin.
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