Tag Archives: Missile Defense

Vice Adm. Jon Hill, director of the Missile Defense Agency, has said the issuance of a formal solicitation notice for the development of a ground-based missile interceptor is “imminent," Defense News reported Thursday.

Affiliates of private equity firm AE Industrial Partners has purchased American Pacific from Huntsman Family Investments for an undisclosed sum.

A new McAleese & Associates report says Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) saw its year-to-date backlog rise 22 percent to $65B in the third quarter of 2019 and posted $8.5B in Q3 sales, reflecting a 5 percent increase from the same period last year.

Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) has won a potential seven-year, $494.9M contract from the U.S. Air Force to replace solid-state radar modules designed to support missile defense, space surveillance and satellite warning operations at a military station located in England.

The U.S. Army collaborated with Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) and Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) on a flight test aimed to demonstrate the performance of a missile defense system against intercept air-breathing threats.

Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) broke ground on a facility in Utah to support the U.S. Air Force's intercontinental ballistic missile modernization project. The company said Tuesday its future Ground Based Strategic Deterrent program office near Hill AF Base will open in mid-2020 and create more than 2K jobs in the state.

Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has received a $174.9M delivery order to help the U.S. Navy update long range anti-ship missile systems. The order falls under a blanket purchase agreement through which Lockheed provides engineering, testing, product and ancillary support services, the Department of Defense said Wednesday.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 22, 2019 — Peraton will work to operate and maintain communications equipment for the Ground-Based Midcourse Defense system in support of the U.S. Army’s 59th Signal Battalion over five years under a $14.9M contract, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. The company said Monday the GMD Secure Communications Operations …

Consulting firm McAleese & Associates has released a report on military defense programs as discussed by Pentagon officials at the Senate Armed Services strategic forces subcommittee hearing Wednesday. John Rood, defense undersecretary for policy; Air Force Gen. Terrence O’Shaughnessy, commander of Northern Command; Lt. Gen. Sam Greaves, director of the Missile …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 27, 2019 — An industry team consisting of Boeing (NYSE: BA), Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) and Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) worked with the Missile Defense Agency to test the Ground-Based Midcourse Defense system’s ability to intercept an intercontinental ballistic missile, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. Boeing said Monday the …