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Boeing Satellite Systems in El Segundo, California, has won a $13.8 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for Phase 2 of the Fast Access Spacecraft Testbed (FAST) satellite power generation and propulsion program.
Read MoreThe U.S. Air Force is terminating for convenience the Transformational Satellite Communications System Mission Operations System contracts...
Read MoreA 15-month risk reduction study on the Advanced UAV project has allowed EADS to pin a production price tag of about 90 million to 100 million euros ($125.8 million to $139.7 million) per system, confirming the total 2.8 billion euro budget for 15 systems for France, Germany, and Spain, said Nicolas Chamussy, senior vice president for mission air systems.
Read MoreProtonex Technology Corporation (LSE: AIM: PTX and PTXU) has received an additional $500,000 contract award from the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) for advanced development of high power fuel cell systems for small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).
Read MoreAccording to a John Keller report in Military & Aerospace Electronics online site, U.S. military forces plan to spend nearly $5.4 billion next year on unmanned vehicle (UV) technology for air, ground, and maritime applications, according to identifiable unmanned vehicle line items in the fiscal 2010 U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) budget, which was released in May and sent to Congress for consideration.
Read MoreThe Boeing Company [NYSE: BA], with its wholly owned subsidiary Insitu, has announced the first U.S. $25 million in contracts to Canadian companies as part of a government order for small unmanned aerial vehicle (SUAV) services.
Read MoreThe following is a highlight of GAO-09-705T, a testimony before the Subcommittee on Strategic Forces, Committee on Armed Services, U.S. Senate.
Read MoreThe U.S. Department of Defense has awarded two contracts to Northrop Grumman and Boeing for two, as of yet, unpublished UAV development programs.
Read MoreThe U.S. military may reach its goal of doing collision analysis on 800 maneuverable satellites before October, and is examining the possibility of tracking 500 more satellites that cannot be maneuvered, a top Air Force general said on Tuesday.
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