Tag: defense

Ursa Major, the United States’ leading privately funded rocket propulsion company, was chosen by the Department of Defense (DoD) as one of the inaugural recipients of investments from the Office of Strategic Capital (OSC) to strengthen critical supply chain...

CesiumAstro, an industry leader in active phased array communications technology for space and airborne systems, announced today that the company was selected by Rocket Lab (Nasdaq: RKLB) to provide its Vireo active electronically scanned array (AESA) radio frequency (RF)...

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 22, 2023
In a significant development for the U.S. missile defense capabilities, Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), a global leader in aerospace and defense technologies, unveiled a new state-of-the-art engineering facility at its Huntsville campus. The $16.5 million Missile System Integration Lab (MSIL) stands as a testament to Lockheed Martin's commitment to advancing missile defense innovation and str

  Xage Security, a cybersecurity company based in Palo Alto, California, has been awarded a $17 million contract by the U.S. Space Force's Space Systems Command. The contract is for the provision of a cybersecurity platform to protect the Space...

  The U.S. Marine Corps has recently granted a contract to Lite Coms, a company specializing in VSAT terminals, with a potential value of up to $500 million. The Department of Defense announced the award earlier this month, specifying that...

Paris (AFP) July 20, 2023
When a NASA spacecraft successfully knocked an asteroid off course last year it sent dozens of boulders skittering into space, images from the Hubble telescope showed on Thursday. NASA's fridge-sized DART probe smashed into the pyramid-sized, rugby ball-shaped asteroid Dimorphos roughly 11 million kilometres (6.8 million miles) from Earth in September last year. The spacecraft knocked th

Muon Space, a space technology company, has been granted an option to expand its contract with the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center (AFLMC) to gather ionospheric data through its MuSat-2 satellite mission. The Department of Defense (DoD) will...

Phase Four, a leading propulsion company, has secured a funding increase of $4.26 million from the Air Force Research Laboratory and AFWERX, its innovation arm. The additional funding will be used to develop a propellant decomposition chamber for propellant-agnostic...

SES Space & Defense has been awarded a five-year X-Band Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) with an estimated value of $134 million. The contract, announced on Wednesday, is for global X-Band satellite capacity,...

Aalyria, a Google spinoff focused on connectivity, has secured a new contract from the Office of Naval Research and Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) to develop over-the-horizon connectivity for the Navy's sea, air, and land assets. The initial contract award...