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The 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Read MoreThe U.S. Department of Defense has awarded two contracts to Northrop Grumman and Boeing for two, as of yet, unpublished UAV development programs.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.
Read MoreNorthrop Grumman Corp. has delivered the second geosynchronous orbit (GEO) payload to prime contractor Lockheed Martin Space Systems Co. in Sunnyvale, California, for integration into the spacecraft and final system-level testing.
Read MoreLockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] is one of six companies selected by the U.S. Army to compete for future task orders across the Battle Command Family of Products, an indefinite-delivery-indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract.
Read MoreThe Air Force states it has not yet decided who will maintain two unmanned aerial vehicles called the Predator and Reaper, this according to the Air Force Times.
Read MoreThe U.S. Air Force liked what the Raytheon Company was doing for them, and so to validate this confidence Raytheon received a contract extension to perform additional risk-reduction activities for the U.S. Air Force's next-generation Global Positioning System Operational Ground Control Segment, or GPS OCX. Raytheon will identify and mitigate program risk to create a roadmap to keep the program on budget and on schedule.
Read MoreThe California Space Authority (CSA) congratulates Qual-Pro on being awarded the 2009 Department of Defense (DOD) Nunn-Perry Award for their exceptional growth and technological expansion under the Department of Defense Mentor-Prot?g? Program (MPP).
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