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If it were not for the serious decline in the Air Force's nuclear mission focus and performance, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said during a speech at Langley Air Force Base in Virginia on June 9th that he would not have felt the need to replace the Air Force leadership.
Read MoreNorthrop Grumman Corporation has completed the integrated baseline review for the U.S. Air Force Next-Generation Global Positioning System (GPS) Ground Control Segment (OCX), achieving two major milestone reviews within a matter of weeks.
Read MoreOfficials from the Air Force Space Command's Space and Missile Systems Center's Global Positioning Systems Wing have just announced the award of the nexgen GPS Space System (GPS IIIA) prime contract—it's Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company of Newton, Pennsylvania, with a period of performance of FY 08-17 and valued at $1,463,969,301
Read MoreRaytheon Company [NYSE:RTN] has won an $86.7 million contract to produce and install upgrade kits for the Army's Secure Mobile Anti-jam Reliable Tactical Terminal, otherwise known as SMART-T.
Read MoreThree additional Minotaur space launch vehicles, to support the new Operationally Responsive Space (ORS) office, have been ordered by the U.S. Air Force Space and Missiles Systems Center (SMC) — and the recipient of the order is Orbital Sciences Corporation.
Read MoreThe firm has been awarded a 10-year contract, valued at more than 40M/USD, to supply depot support and engineering services for multiple space control systems for the U.S. Space and Missile Systems Center's (SMC) Space Superiority Systems Wing at Los Angeles Air Force Base, California.
Read MoreProviding for the upgrade of the integrated sensor assembly components for the Alternative Infrared Satellite System is a new contract to Science Applications International Corp.
Read MoreA key milestone has been achieved by Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] in the company's development of the Mobile User Objective System (MUOS)—they successfully completed static loads testing of the first satellite in the program constellation.
Read MoreXicom Technology is a business unit of Radyne Corporation and they have just obtained an order to ensure Ka-band and tri-band amplifiers are delivered to the U.S. Air Force.
Read MoreKudos to the Space and Missile System Center's Alternative Infrared Space Systems (AIRSS)/Third Generation Infrared Surveillance (3GIRS) team who won the Air Force Space Command's Agile Acquisition Transformation Leadership Award for 2007.
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