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Kudos 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.
Read MoreSWE-DISH Satellite Systems, a DataPath company, was awarded an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (ID/IQ) contract by the U.S. Navy's Space and Naval Warfare Systems (SPAWAR) Center in which they will provide portable SATCOM terminals.
Read MoreGlobecomm Systems Inc. [NASDAQ: GCOM] has announced today they and six other companies have been awarded an Indefinite Delivery / Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract from the U.S. Navy's Space and Naval Warfare (SPAWAR) Systems Center.
Read MoreThe MILSATCOM Systems Wing has informed all that the payload module of the second Advanced Extremely High Frequency satellite (AEHF) military communications satellite was successfully delivered three weeks ahead of schedule from Northrop Grumman's facilities in Redondo Beach, California, to the AEHF prime contractor Lockheed Martin facilities, located in Sunnyvale, California.
Read MoreContract modifications to the tune of $287,997,350 and $210,429,500 have been awarded to Boeing Launch Services and Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company, respectively.
Read MoreAnother home run by Raytheon, as the company has just received a $75 million from the U.S. Air Force to upgrade the Minuteman Minimum Essential Emergency Communications Network.
Read MoreAlliant Techsystems has been notified by the Department of the Air Force that the Launch Systems Group has temporarily been placed on the Excluded Parties List.
Read MoreA $15 million contract to develop advanced infrared focal-plane arrays (FPAs) for U.S.A.F. missile defense surveillance satellites has been awarded to BAE Systems.
Read MoreNASA has announced a $17.6 billion budget for fiscal year 2009 to continue exploring the solar system, building the International Space Station, studying Earth from space and conducting aeronautics research.
Read MoreA 3.4 percent military pay raise, a 2.9 percent civilian raise, money to continue to grow the Army and Marines, and a funding increase to maintain readiness, all are major aspects of the fiscal 2009 defense budget request President Bush sent to Congress today. The defense budget request is for $515.4 billion—a $35.9 billion increase over the 2008 level. The total federal budget request for fiscal 2009 is $3.1 trillion.
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