Lockheed Still Working on MEADS Despite Lack of U.S. Interest

 

Defense contractor Lockheed Martin is continuing work on a battlefield antimissile system despite the U.S. military’s announced lack of interest in purchasing any units, the Huntsville Timesreported on Sunday. 

If it Wins Contract, Lockheed Martin Would Build New Interceptor Missile in Courtland

 

If in a couple of years Lockheed Martin wins the competition to produce an all-new, faster interceptor missile for the Missile Defense Agency, the company will build them in Courtland, officials announced today.

Soldiers in Spotlight at Opening of Space and Missile Defense Conference in Huntsville

Lt. Gen. Richard Formica started the 14th annual Space and Missile Defense ConferenceTuesday morning by reminding the large audience of the main reason they are in Huntsville this week.

MEADS Program Completes Successful BMC4I Software Review

The Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS) program has successfully completed a Battle Management Command, Control, Communications and Computers and Intelligence (BMC4I) software design review in Huntsville, Ala.

United States DoD contracts for July 19, 2011

CONTRACTS

MISSILE DEFENSE AGENCY

The Missile Defense Agency is announcing the award of a cost-plus-fixed-fee contract modification, option exercise, under contract HQ0147-09-C-0007 to The Boeing Co., Huntsville, Ala. The total value of this contract modification is $36,670,439, increasing the total contract value to $696,947,325. Under this contract modification, the contractor will manage the Ground-based Midcourse (GMD) Defense Weapon System sustainment and operations support to include system sustainment, training, and operations support of the GMD mission assets. The work will be performed in Fort Greely, Alaska, and Colorado Springs, Colo. The performance period is from Sept. 1 through Nov. 30, 2011. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The MDA, Huntsville, Ala., is the contracting activity.

Light truck: In Huntsville, Boeing, Army roll out next phase of laser program to help protect troops

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama – It looks like just another big, sand-colored Army truck – except with R2-D2′s boxy cousin sitting atop the back. This is the Army’s High Energy Laser Technology Demonstrator, and the hope is it will lead to a system that uses beams of light to hit and destroy an enemy’s incoming rockets, artillery and mortar rounds before they can hurt soldiers or civilians.

Raytheon breaking ground today for missile facility on Redstone Arsenal

On Redstone Arsenal, the plant will be near the offices of the Missile Defense Agency and other customers, and there is already an infrastructure used in integrating large-scale rocket and propulsion systems and the explosive materials they use, he said. The area has a talented workforce and state training programs that will allow employees to come on board ready to work; connections with the University of Alabama in Huntsville and other area institutions for other workforce development and training; and more.

ASI Names Dan Lambert Vice President of Advanced Technologies

Analytical Services Inc. today announced that Dan Lambert has been named vice president of advanced technologies. Lambert brings more than 16 years’ experience in information technology and systems and software engineering.Before joining ASI, Lambert served as director of information engineering for L-3 Communications, where he managed a diverse team of engineering professionals operating primarily in the systems integration, software development, and information and physical security domains. He also served as deputy program manager on the Missile Defense Agency’s Missile Defense Data Center contract.

U.S. Missile Engineers to Get New Simulation Tool

The U.S. Missile Defense Agency plans to award a $595 million contract in July for the Objective Simulation Framework (OSF), a suite of software that would be used to evaluate elements of the U.S. antimissile system before their deployment. The agency operates two modeling and simulation frameworks: the Digital Simulation Architecture digital representation and the Single Stimulation Framework, software that stimulates missile defense components by injecting simulated signals. The agency plans to replace those frameworks by merging them to create OSF.

Two industry teams have formed to pursue the OSF contract. Northrop Grumman is leading a team in partnership with Boeing, and Teledyne Brown Engineering in Huntsville, Ala., is working with Lockheed Martin and Raytheon.

Combining the two suites would provide “a more robust, flexible and affordable framework,” said Kelley Zelickson, Northrop’s vice president of air and missile defense systems.

100 Northrop Grumman Employees in Huntsville get Furlough Notices

One hundred Northrop Grumman  employees in Huntsville are receiving notices they could be furloughed in 60 days after one of the company’s contracts for the Missile Defense Agency’s Ground-based Midcourse Defense system ends.