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Space.com - Engineers will check repairs made to a faulty engine valve on the Falcon 9 rocket.

National Geographic - An engine problem caused the rocket to automatically abort seconds before liftoff. Mission managers now hope to try again Tuesday.

TMCnet - The U.S. Army is stated to be conducting accurate operational evaluations of JTRS HMS Manpack and Rifleman Radios, and the Warfighter Information Network-Tactical (WIN-T) network from General...

Long Island Business News - The House is expected to vote on a revised defense budget that restores funding to an aircraft partly built on Long Island. In preparing its five-year fiscal plan, the Pentagon had recommended...

ABC - Technology - The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carries some extra cargo: the cremated ashes of 300 souls. They include James Doohan (Scotty of 'Star Trek' fame) and Gordon Cooper, one of the original Mercury 7...

Federal Computer Week - The focus of many federal virtual world activities has moved to the U.S. Army's "MOSES" experimental open source environment

collectSPACE - Riding on the first commercial spacecraft to launch for the International Space Station is a stash of souvenirs. The Official Flight Kit stowed on SpaceX's Dragon capsule includes patches,...

Lockheed Martin - YouTube - Live Training Solutions provides a full-spectrum answer to range communications. Lockheed Martin offers a complete suite of complementary training devices. This...

Lockheed Martin - YouTube - Prepar3D(r) simulation software presents a virtual world that spans from the depths of the ocean to suborbital space. See how Prepar3D can be used for immersive, experiential...

Lockheed Martin - YouTube - Available on the App Store: bit.ly Fly a UAV. Learn about robotics. Explore the universe. LM Tomorrow is a science and engineering app that provides insight into some...

Marketwire - Networking - Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) (NASDAQ: LORL), the world's leading provider of commercial satellites, today announced that the Nimiq 6 satellite, designed...

GlobeNewsWire: Manufacturing - Curtiss-Wright Corporation (NYSE:CW) Vice President and CFO, Glenn E. Tynan, will present at the 2012 KeyBanc Capital Markets Industrial, Automotive, and Transportation Conference on Thursday,...

PR Newswire: Computer Hardware - The Sea Launch vessels have departed Sea Launch Home Port in Long Beach, California for the equator, in preparation for the launch of...

PR Newswire: Aerospace and Defense - Members of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) and the Office and Professional Employees International Union (OPEIU) have ratified new labor agreements with Lockheed...

PR Newswire: Aerospace and Defense - Six hundred Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] employees on the Automated Flight Service Station (AFSS) program, represented by the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM),...

PR Newswire: Aerospace and Defense - The Aerospace Industries Association welcomes House action on satellite export reform in the fiscal year 2013 National Defense Authorization Act. The language would...

PR Newswire: Aerospace and Defense - The Boeing (NYSE: BA) 787 Dream Tour will draw to a close with a seventh leg of international trips. During the tour, a refurbished flight test airplane has demonstrated the Dreamliner's capabilities...

PR Newswire: Aerospace and Defense - NASA and the Canadian Space Agency will present results to date from the satellite-servicing Robotic Refueling Mission (RRM) during the Second International Workshop, On-Orbit Satellite Servicing,...

PR Newswire: Aerospace and Defense - NASA Chief Technologist Mason Peck will join agency and Ohio officials to name nine small and medium-sized Ohio manufacturers that will receive NASA assistance to solve technical problems with...

PR Newswire: Aerospace and Defense - KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- NASA is offering visitors rare access to several key areas of Kennedy Space Center during its 50th anniversary year to enhance a popular destination that already...

PR Newswire: Aerospace and Defense - More than 50 teams of undergraduate and graduate students from eight countries will come to NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida May 21-26 to take part in the third annual Lunabotics Mining...

PR Newswire: Computer and Electronics - The U.S. Navy awarded Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) a contract totaling $57.8 million to overhaul and upgrade nine Phalanx Close-In Weapon Systems, and manufacture two SeaRAM anti-ship missile...

U.S. Dept. of Defense - Contracts valued at $5 million or more are announced each business day at 5 p.m.

Saab - Saab's innovative integrated Head Up Display (HUD) System "RIGS" has completed initial flight trials in Sweden. The HUD has been integrated with Garmin's G500H Avionic System and Maxviz' EVS-1500...

Defense Tech - Just a quick update on China's stealth fighter program. We've all seen the pictures that emerged over the weekend of second J-20 stealth fighter, dubbed 2002, sitting alongside the first J-20,...

PhysOrg.com - Japan successfully put a South Korean satellite into space Friday, in its first foray into the European- and Russian-dominated world of commercial launches.

Zacks Analyst Blog - Northrop Grumman Corporation has increased its quarterly dividend by 10% bringing the annualized payout to $2.20 per share from $2 per share earlier.

Zacks Analyst Blog - Raytheon Company received from the U.S. Navy a $313.8 million contract for low-rate initial production of Standard Missile-6.

Wired News - Robert Heinlein's 1959 novel "Starship Troopers" presents a futuristic war fought by heavily armored infantry, that when suited up, makes you look like a "big steel gorilla." Today, the U.S....

The Register - Is space agency giving Larry a break on government's jet fuel?
A US senator has asked NASA (PDF) to cough up five years of data about Larry Page and Sergey Brin's personal jets - in the latest...

ABC - Technology - If SpaceX safely launches its Falcon 9 rocket carrying a Dragon capsule into orbit, it could be the the start of something. It would be the first private-enterprise flight to the International...

Design News - The Department of Defense is designing a device that can virtually cure sepsis, an often fatal blood infection to which soldiers injured on the battlefield are prone.

Forbes - Technology - After a few minor delays, the SpaceX Dragon is waiting for its chance on Saturday to be the first private spacecraft to berth with the International Space Station. If all goes well, this will...

Electronics Weekly - Three rockets launched on the same day from three separate facilities have successfully put six satellites into orbit.

Electronics Weekly - An Arianespace Ariane 5 has successfully launched two satellites into geostationary transfer orbit (GTO) on 15 May from its Kourou, French Guiana launch site.

Lockheed Martin - YouTube - Lockheed Martin makes significant contributions to all major US missile defense systems. Our proven systems help protect the US, its allies, and...

Marketwire - Aerospace and Defense - FLYHT Aerospace Solutions Ltd. (TSX VENTURE:FLY) ("FLYHT" or the "Company") has received confirmation from the TSX Venture Exchange that it will...

Marketwire - Aerospace and Defense - TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - May 17, 2012) - Bombardier Aerospace has delivered the first of eight Q400 NextGen turboprop airliners ordered by new customer Eurolot S.A. of Warsaw, Poland....

GlobeNewsWire: Electronics - RADA Electronic Industries Ltd. (Nasdaq:RADA) announced today its financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2012.

GlobeNewsWire: Government - More than 10,000 deploying service members will receive "care packages" from the USO thanks to a stuffing party held recently by 130 employees from Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC).

GlobeNewsWire: Defense - Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) has announced the successful demonstration of the company's new Target Location Module (TLM), a key component of the battle-proven, man-portable Lightweight...

PR Newswire: Computer and Electronics - Hughes Network Systems, LLC (HUGHES), the world's leading provider of broadband satellite networks and services, today held its 15th annual Satellite Technology Seminar in Moscow focusing on...

PR Newswire: Aerospace and Defense - NASA has selected the 2012 class of Space Technology Research Fellows. Forty-eight students will receive graduate student fellowships from NASA's Space Technology Program to pursue master's...

PR Newswire: Aerospace and Defense - NASA Administrator Charles Bolden will provide the commencement address to the 2012 graduating class of the University of Maryland Eastern Shore in Princess Anne, Md., on Friday, May 18, at...

PR Newswire: Aerospace and Defense - Aviation Partners Boeing (APB) announced today that it has received approval from the FAA demonstrating compatibility for installing Blended Winglets on the Boeing 767 Converted Freighter (767-BCF)....

Business Wire: Science News - 3M Aerospace scientist leads a session on Fire Safety and several new products are introduced at the SAMPE 2012 Conference, May 21-24 in Baltimore, Md.

Business Wire: Defense News - CPI Aerostructures, Inc. ("CPI Aero(r)") (NYSE MKT: CVU) today announced that it was awarded a $1 million contract by Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems ("NGAS") to manufacture pod structural...

Business Wire: Hardware - 3M announces that the DoD has awarded 3M Health Care a two-year Enterprise Incentive Agreement to provide 3M Littmann Stethoscopes to all DoD medical treatment facilities in the U.S., Europe...

U.S. Dept. of Defense - Contracts valued at $5 million or more are announced each business day at 5 p.m.

Design News - A major advance in repairing composite structures combining robots and lasers bodes well for commercial aircraft such as the Boeing 787 Dreamliner and Airbus A350XWB, which contain composites...

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Zacks Analyst Blog - Lockheed Martin Corporation's F-22 fighter jet flying limit between landing zones was limited by a recent order to the U.S. Air Force by Defense Secretary Leon Panetta.

The Register - Full crew to be ready for Dragon arrival
Vid The Soyuz spacecraft carrying three new members of Expedition 31 hooked up with the International Space Station this morning without a hitch at...

The Register - 'Just a rehearsal for the real one', insist rover boffins
NASA boffins have been found at a site deep in California's Mojave desert with a Mars rover of the exact type they say will land on...

PR Newswire: Aerospace/Defense - The unmanned aerial systems (UASs) market accounted for $5.25 billion of the U.S. Department of Defense's (DoD's) budget in 2010, with the Air Force emerging as the highest spender among all...

NASA - Observations from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) have led to the best assessment yet of our solar system's population of potentially hazardous asteroids.

NASA - NASA is lending the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena, where the spacecraft will continue its exploration of the cosmos.

collectSPACE - Packed aboard and set to launch on SpaceX's first Dragon to fly the International Space Station are students' experiments and mission patches as part of NCESSE's Student Spaceflight Experiments...

Defense Systems - The Defense Advanced Research Project Agency wants bids from contractors capable of furnishing four small satellites that would be able to demonstrate its fractionated spacecraft architecture...

Uploads from Lockheed Martin - A future C-5M rolled out of the hangar at Lockheed Martin's Marietta, Ga., facilities on May 10, 2012. Tail number 87-0045 received new engine pylons and...

U.S. News - Facing a mysterious safety problem with the Air Force's most-prized stealth fighter, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta on Tuesday ordered new flight restrictions on the F-22...

Marketwire - Electronics and Semiconductors - DoD Defense Microelectronics Activity Certifies Company as a Trusted Supplier for Microelectronics Goods and Services

Marketwire - Aerospace and Defense - Company Recognized for Work at the Ground-Based Midcourse Defense Project

GlobeNewsWire: Telecommunications - Globalstar, Inc., ("Globalstar" or the "Company") today announced the decision of the arbitrators in the commercial arbitration concerning its 2009 satellite manufacturing contract with Thales...

PR Newswire: Computer and Electronics - General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems, a business unit of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD), has been awarded a task order by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to support the...

PR Newswire: Aerospace and Defense - General Dynamics C4 Systems recently demonstrated wireless high definition video and data transfer to government customers using the Wideband Networking Waveform (WNW) on the JTRS HMS AN/PRC-155...

PR Newswire: Aerospace and Defense - Lockheed Martin's (NYSE: LMT) Aegis Combat System recently demonstrated simultaneous anti-air warfare and ballistic missile defense capabilities during its first integrated air and missile...

PR Newswire: Business Technology - The U.S. Navy awarded Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) a $313.8 million contract for low-rate initial production of Standard Missile-6 all-up rounds.

SM-6 leverages the legacy Standard Missile...

Business Wire: Technology News - Ten Fortune 500 companies are based in Fairfax County, Virginia. That is half of the Fortune 500 companies based in the Washington area. Fairfax County has more companies on the list than 34...

Business Wire: Software - Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS), an international communications and information technology company, has received a $39 million order from U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) for Falcon...

Business Wire: Defense News - 3M Health Information Systems announced today it will open access to the 3M Healthcare Data Dictionary under an agreement with the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and Department of Veterans...

U.S. Dept. of Defense - Contracts valued at $5 million or more are announced each business day at 5 p.m.

Zacks Analyst Blog - Raytheon Company's subsidiary Raytheon BBN Technologies has entered into an agreement with the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity through U.S. Army Research Laboratory.

PhysOrg.com - Japan will put a commercial satellite into space on Friday, officials said, in its first foray into the European- and Russian-dominated world of contract launches.

PhysOrg.com - U.S. Navy divers take on dangerous tasks every day-and starting this week, they will be part of a multinational effort near Estonia to help clear the Baltic Sea of underwater mines left over...

PhysOrg.com - Former NASA astronaut Story Musgrave is neither happy nor excited about the current state of the space administration or about the commercial COTS (Commercial Orbital Transportation Services)...

Discovery Channel - It looks like the commercial space race might be over before it's even really begun.

GlobeNewsWire: Defense - Optex Systems Holdings, Inc. (OTCBB:OPXS), a leading manufacturer of optical sighting systems and assemblies primarily for Department of Defense applications, reported operating results for...

PR Newswire: Aerospace and Defense - XCOR Aerospace today announced the grand prize winner of a trip aboard the Lynx Mark I suborbital launch vehicle. XCOR Chief Operating Officer Andrew Nelson made the announcement at the Spacecraft...

PR Newswire: Aerospace and Defense - The board of directors of Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) declared a quarterly dividend of $0.55 per share on Northrop Grumman common stock, a 10 percent increase from the prior quarterly...

Electronics Weekly - Three astronauts have been successfully launched into orbit aboard a Soyuz rocket from Baikonur, Kazakhstan. The astronauts, one American and two Russians, will dock with the International...

Marketwire - Aerospace and Defense - Company to Build Two Spacecraft Bus Structures for the Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) Program

Marketwire - Aerospace and Defense - World Surveillance Group Inc. (OTCBB: WSGI), a developer of lighter-than-air unmanned aerial vehicles and related technologies, announced...

Marketwire - Electronics and Semiconductors - The "FTG Circuits - Toronto" operation of Firan Technology Group (TSX:FTG) was presented with the 2012 Printed Circuit Board Category Supplier...

GlobeNewsWire: Shipbuilding - Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE:HII) announced today that its Ingalls Shipbuilding division has received a $133.7 million, cost-plus-fixed-fee advance procurement contract modification...

PR Newswire: Internet Technology - The U.S. Navy Reserve Forces Command, using Wi-Fi equipment and Internet protocols provided by CenturyLink (NYSE: CTL), won a Department of the Navy Information Management/Information Technology...

PR Newswire: Aerospace and Defense - The 100th and 101st Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) commercial geostationary communication satellites have been successfully placed in orbit today after a dual launch aboard an Ariane 5-ECA launch...

PR Newswire: Aerospace and Defense - A team from NASA's Langley Research Center will have its eyes, cameras and telescopes trained on the skies for the launch of the first commercial spaceflight carrying cargo to the International...

PR Newswire: Aerospace and Defense - General Dynamics Armament and Technical Products, a business unit of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD), today unveiled a next-generation Lightweight Medium Machine Gun (LWMMG) at the Joint Armaments...

PR Newswire: Aerospace and Defense - Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] successfully conducted a series of target tracking tests against Rocket, Artillery and Mortar (RAM) targets using its Extended Area Protection and Survivability...

PR Newswire: Aerospace and Defense - Honeywell (NYSE: HON) announced today that it has completed the delivery of advanced ballistic materials that will be used in the development of next-generation combat helmets for the U.S....

Business Wire: Defense News - The SPECTRUM Group (TSG) is pleased to announce Mr. Rodney O. Pennywell has joined our firm. Pennywell has worked across the defense industry supporting the Missile Defense Agency and Army...

Business Wire: Networks - Public safety officers in Las Vegas, Nevada, are on the air with a 700 MHz Band 14 LTE (Long Term Evolution) solution through a "pilot" program that demonstrates the potential of next generation...

U.S. Dept. of Defense - Contracts valued at $5 million or more are announced each business day at 5 p.m.

PhysOrg.com - NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., successfully completed wind tunnel testing for Sierra Nevada Corp. (SNC) Space Systems of Louisville, Colo. The test will provide aerodynamic...

PhysOrg.com - (Phys.org) -- Team members of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission took a test rover to Dumont Dunes in California's Mojave Desert this week to improve knowledge of the best way to operate...

gizmag - Practical laser weapons came another step closer to reality, as defense contractor Northrop Grumman recently tested the latest version of its Firestrike solid-state lasers. On May 1st, the...

Channel NewsAsia Business News - The US plane maker Cessna on Monday unveiled a new business jet capable of non-stop flights from New York to Paris, or from London to Dubai.

Wired News - On Monday, the U.S. Navy will officially announce the ships for its demonstration of the "Great Green Fleet" -- an entire aircraft carrier strike group, powered by biofuels and other eco-friendly...