Defense Department acting acquisition chief Frank Kendall has proposed altering plans for the remaining work on the Medium Extended Air Defense System program to reduce cost, raising the specter of early termination, according to defense officials.
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Lockheed Martin is holding out hope that the Medium Extended Air Defense System program will be funded through its entire proof-of-concept phase, a company official told Inside the Army.
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Lockheed Martin will not protest the Missile Defense Agency's award of a multibillion-dollar contract to develop and sustain the Ground-based Midcourse Defense system to Boeing.
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A fiscal year 2010 Patriot mobile air and missile defense system test found "substantial variance" in the system's reliability, according to a Defense Department annual operational test and evaluation report released this month.
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Aegis Ashore recently completed its critical design review, and construction of the deck house will begin in early spring, according to Nick Bucci, Lockheed Martin's Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense development programs director.
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senior State Department official this week sounded a note of pessimism
regarding the Conference on Disarmament's overall effectiveness. "While the
international community has been active and achieved results in many areas
during the past year, the Conference on Disarmament appears to be no closer to
an 'honest day's work' than it was last January," Assistant Secretary of State
for Arms Control, Verification and Compliance Rose Gottemoeller said Jan. 24 in
Geneva, adding: "Despite herculean efforts by a number of CD Member States . .
. a Fissile Material Cutoff Treaty (FMCT) . . . remains no closer to
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While the Army is still working on a final procurement objective for the Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Elevated Netted Sensor System, the service announced its intention to construct a facility for housing a JLENS unit at Ft. Bliss, TX.
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The United States has decided not to go along with the European-proposed code of conduct for cooperation in space because it is too restrictive, according to a senior State Department official.
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Despite an urgent need to counter new Chinese weapons designed to sink maneuvering U.S. aircraft carriers, the Navy has not funded a surrogate missile required to test defenses against the unprecedented threat, warns a report from the Pentagon's top tester.
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The Air Force will be part of a Pentagon team studying alternate rocket propulsion solutions for both upper- and lower-stage space launch and the findings will be used to inform budget decisions beginning in fiscal year 2014, according to a service official.
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Air Force
officials recently awarded Boeing a $377 million contract modification for work
on the ninth Wideband Global SATCOM satellite, according a Jan. 18 service
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The Pentagon
needs to expand its prototyping capabilities as a way to help solve problems
while minimizing acquisition costs in a tight fiscal environment, according to
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Al
Shaffer.362 words
Military
leaders are rushing new weapons into operational testing despite signs the
systems are not ready, the Pentagon's top tester warns in a new report that
spotlights big problems threatening to undermine an array of major programs.562 words
Weapons that can travel at five times the speed of sound are a major game-changer that could play a key role in the Pentagon's increased focus against adversaries engaging in anti-access, area-denial actions, the Pentagon's No. 2 research and engineering official said.
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Senior
Pentagon officials were scheduled to meet yesterday afternoon to discuss
details on how to meet a key audit-readiness milestone Defense Secretary Leon
Panetta recently accelerated, Defense Department Comptroller Robert Hale told
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