http://www.defensedaily.com Defense Daily en-us 2009 Mon, 6 Jul 2009 21:33:51 EDT By Calvin Biesecker The private equity firm J.F. Lehman and Company yesterday said it has acquired Defense Venture Group (DVG) and its affiliates in partnership with DVG management, adding businesses that provide armoring services and force protection... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/business/7362.html Wed, 1 Jul 2009 0:00:00 EDT The private equity firm Court Square Capital yesterday said it has acquired Wyle, a provider of aerospace and information technology solutions to the federal government, from Littlejohn & Co., another... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/business/7346.html Tue, 30 Jun 2009 0:00:00 EDT Lockheed Martin [LMT], Northrop Grumman [NOC] and Raytheon [RTN] have each been... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/business/7315.html Mon, 29 Jun 2009 0:00:00 EDT Obama Must Complete All Shuttle Missions, Even If That Means Funding, Flights In Fiscal 2011; And Don't Fund Shuttle Flights By Short-Changing Other Programs Senate Bill Lashes NASA For Procurement Cost Overruns, Delays; Space Agency Must Tighten Rules... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/business/7318.html Mon, 29 Jun 2009 0:00:00 EDT Funding Restoration Amendments Are Rejected Even More Cuts May Gouge Missile Defense Programs In Future Years, Lawmaker Warns Both the entire House and a key Senate panel backed President Obama's quest to slash $1.2 billion from ballistic missile programs, as... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/business/7320.html Mon, 29 Jun 2009 0:00:00 EDT But Defense Measure Also Encourages Talks With Russians Over Possible Joint Radar The pending Senate defense authorization bill leaves the European Missile Defense (EMD) program with just $51 million for the next fiscal year, which critics of the measure say... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/business/7322.html Mon, 29 Jun 2009 0:00:00 EDT Obama Administration Isn't Seizing Control Of NPOESS To Fix Problems, Lawmakers Say The Senate Appropriations Committee expressed exasperation with the long-troubled National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System, or NPOESS, but provided... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/business/7324.html Mon, 29 Jun 2009 0:00:00 EDT Sea Launch, the company that provided a mid-ocean launch pad, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, but said it wishes to continue operations. The filing came after the company had rallied from a 2007 disaster in which a Zenit 3SL rocket and the NSS8... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/business/7325.html Mon, 29 Jun 2009 0:00:00 EDT Obama Is Appalled At Iran Mistreating, Killing Protesters Who Allege Vote Fraud Chances Dim For Major Reduction In Iranian Missile-Nuclear Threat That Could Justify Abandoning European Missile Defense President Obama's hopes to negotiate an end to the Iranian... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/business/7326.html Mon, 29 Jun 2009 0:00:00 EDT Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz is examining the feasibility of missile defense systems mounted on aircraft, such as strike fighters. Interest in the Air Launched Hit-to-Kill systems... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/business/7327.html Mon, 29 Jun 2009 0:00:00 EDT North Korea May Launch Taepo Dong-2 Missile On Saturday, Perhaps Toward Hawaii: Reports U.S. missile defense systems very likely can demolish any missile that North Korea launches to hit U.S. territory, said Adm. Michael Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/business/7329.html Mon, 29 Jun 2009 0:00:00 EDT A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV rocket roared from Space Launch Complex 37 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. Saturday evening, to place a Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, GOES-O, into orbit. Ironically, that liftoff of... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/business/7330.html Mon, 29 Jun 2009 0:00:00 EDT A Global Positioning System (GPS) IIF satellite called SV-2 took a transcontinental flight on a C-17 from California to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., but only for a visit, not for a launch into space. The navigation satellite instead will be used as... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/business/7331.html Mon, 29 Jun 2009 0:00:00 EDT NASA gave Wackenhut Services Inc. a $1.2 billion contract to provide security services at NASA installations, after Wackenhut successfully sued the space agency when it earlier had awarded the contract to a rival firm, Coastal International Security. Further... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/business/7334.html Mon, 29 Jun 2009 0:00:00 EDT The first Space Tracking and Surveillance System (STSS) satellite arrived at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., for launch preparation, Northrop Grumman Corp. [NOC] announced. "This delivery is a significant milestone in the development of our... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/business/7336.html Mon, 29 Jun 2009 0:00:00 EDT By Geoff Fein While Lockheed Martin [LMT] and the U.S. Navy continue to modernize the Aegis combat systems on Arleigh Burke-class destroyers and the ballistic missile defense capability of other surface combatants, the company is seeking international... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/business/7293.html Thu, 25 Jun 2009 0:00:00 EDT By Calvin Biesecker Verified Identity Pass on Monday ceased operations of its Clear Registered Traveler (RT) program after failing to negotiate a new line of credit with its senior creditor to continue operations. Clear was the largest of the private RT... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/business/7296.html Thu, 25 Jun 2009 0:00:00 EDT By Calvin Biesecker SAIC [SAI] yesterday confirmed that Walt Havenstein, the departing chief of BAE Systems' United States-based division, will become its new CEO in September, succeeding Ken Dahlberg who will remain as chairman through June 2010. Havenstein... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/business/7285.html Wed, 24 Jun 2009 0:00:00 EDT Harris [HRS] has developed an intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) video receiver that delivers high-resolution full-motion tactical video to individual warfighters for real-time ISR, the company reported. The handheld Harris ISR receiver... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/business/7290.html Wed, 24 Jun 2009 0:00:00 EDT By Calvin Biesecker Britain's BAE Systems said yesterday that Walt Havenstein, the head of its operations in the United States, will be stepping down this Friday; the company said that Anthony Zinni, the retired Marine Corps general, will become chairman and... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/business/7249.html Tue, 23 Jun 2009 0:00:00 EDT