Lockheed: Hardest Missile Test A Success

A multibillion-dollar missile defense system built by Lockheed Martin successfully completed its most challenging test so far, downing two short-range targets in quick succession, the company said on Wednesday.

Northrop Grumman Gets New Missile Defence Contract

Under this new contract from the Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), the defense contract giant Northrop Grumman (NYSE:NOC) will perform manufacturing and production readiness systems engineering for MDA’s Precision Tracking Space System (PTSS).

Lockheed Working on BMD Tracker System

 

 

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Sept. 21 (UPI) — Lockheed Martin says it’s leveraging its satellite and missile defense expertise for the Precision Tracking Space System for ballistic missile defense.

Raytheon Pitches SM-3 to European Countries for Ballistic Missile Defense

Raytheon has proposed that 10 European warships be equipped with the company’s standard SM-3 missile, so that the burden of providing a missile defense shield over Europe can be shared more equally among the NATO countries. The alliance has crafted a Phased Adaptive Approach (PAA) to extending the shield, so that it covers the entire European continent. But the U.S. is providing the only system that can currently perform the exo-atmospheric interception of incoming missiles required to defend an entire region. That system is the Aegis onboard U.S. Navy warships, which fires the SM-3 Block 1A.

New Raytheon Datalink Will Allow NATO Ships to Employ All Standard Missiles

LONDON, Sept. 13, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — Raytheon Company completed design and testing of a prototype dual-band datalink that will enable interoperability between the Standard Missile family of interceptors and a wider variety of radars and ships.

Lockheed Martin Wins $115M Contract for Missile from MDA

       

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) is announcing the award of a sole source cost-plus-award-fee/cost-plus-fixed-fee modification to Lockheed Martin Mission Systems and Sensors, Moorestown, New Jersey, under the HQ0276-10-C-0003 contract, P00019.

SAIC Awarded Contract by U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA)

MCLEAN, Va., Sept. 7, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) announced today it was awarded a competitive indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract by the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) to provide advisory and analytical services in support of the Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS). The multiple-award contract has a five year period of performance with a not to exceed ordering contract ceiling value of $281 million for all awardees, if all options are exercised. Work will be performed primarily in Huntsville, Ala.

Government Sets Terms for Missile Interceptor Transfer

Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) with Aegis BMD provides global defense against short- to intermediate-range ballistic missiles with its demonstrated lethal hit-to-kill capability

Japan would allow the United States to transfer a missile interceptor under joint development by the two nations to third parties, on the condition that the third parties can effectively control its re-export, according to draft guidelines compiled by the government.

Nation’s New Missile Warning Satellite Delivers First Infrared Imagery

The first Lockheed Martin-built Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) geosynchronous (GEO-1) spacecraft beamed down its first infrared image on June 21 to the SBIRS ground station.  Following its May 7 launch, the satellite is performing as expected, and is now undergoing early orbit testing.

Zumwalt Destroyer Supporters Hope For Revival

Photo credit: Northrop Grumman

Any time a chief of naval operations (CNO) gets ready to leave, U.S. Navy shipbuilding programs on that CNO’s hit list look at the transition as a resurrection opportunity. And no vessel program would stand to benefit more from Adm. Gary Roughead’s departure this fall than the DDG-1000 Zumwalt destroyer.