Fort Greely to Benefit from 7-Year Boeing Contract

 

The Boeing Co. has been awarded a seven-year, $3.5 billion contract to continue development and operations of the U.S. Missile Defense Agency’s ground-based midcourse defense system, including the interceptor missile field at Fort Greely in Alaska, the Defense Department announced Friday.

Satellites Track Missile Targets

KAUAI, Hawaii, Nov. 15 (UPI) — Space Tracking and Surveillance System demonstration satellites tracked two different missile targets to support a flight test of the THAAD weapon system.

Missile Tracking Satellites Finish Ahead

The Missile Defense Agency’s two Space Tracking and Surveillance System satellites met the goals of their experimental mission five months ahead of schedule, announced prime contractor Northrop Grumman Wednesday.

$124M C-RAM Contract Awarded to Northrop Grumman

 

A $124 million contract to expand operations of Counter-Rocket, Artillery and Mortar defense systems in Afghanistan and Iraq has been awarded to Northrop Grumman.

Big U.S. Missile-Defense Deal Delayed Again

Oct 18 (Reuters) – The Pentagon has delayed until December the award of a contract that could unseat Boeing Co as the current prime contractor for the U.S. long-range missile shield.

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).

U.S. Air Force’s Second Missile Warning Satellite Completes Major Environmental Test at Lockheed Martin

Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has successfully completed acoustic testing of the second Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) geosynchronous (GEO-2) spacecraft.

Contractors Get Scrutiny for Bad Parts in Defense, NASA Programs

Bad quality parts have resulted in cost increases and schedule delays on 21 major aerospace programs managed or assembled by contractors including Lockheed Martin Corp., Boeing Co., Northrop Grumman Corp., Raytheon Co., and Alliant Techsystems Inc., according to an unreleased report by congressional investigators.

U.S. Navy’s AMDR Program Sets Big Goals

Aviation Week reports:

Northrop Grumman and Raytheon see the U.S. Navy’s Air and Missile Defense Radar (AMDR) program as a way to break the stranglehold Lockheed Martin’s Aegis system has on naval integrated ship and ballistic missile defense (BMD). But Lockheed Martin believes the five-decade-long Aegis pedigree should make the company the front-runner for AMDR.

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.