http://www.defensedaily.com Defense Daily en-us 2009 Sat, 11 Jul 2009 12:40:18 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/financial/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/financial/7322.html Mon, 29 Jun 2009 0:00:00 EDT Augustine Says Committee Will Review Study, But It Is Just Another Piece Of Information A study shows that abandoning the Ares I rocket development program and replacing it with a modified military Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) rocket wouldn't... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/financial/7222.html Mon, 22 Jun 2009 0:00:00 EDT Nelson Says Augustine Committee Has Overwhelming Power And Influence To Decide Future Of NASA Space Program The panel that President Obama formed to evaluate NASA space exploration programs has enormous clout, so that its recommendations doubtless will become... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/financial/7223.html Mon, 22 Jun 2009 0:00:00 EDT Members Of Congress Dismayed, Worried The Obama administration has backed away from placing the European Missile Defense (EMD) system in the Czech Republic (radar) and Poland (interceptors in ground silos), saying it now is uncertain just where the EMD might... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/financial/7224.html Mon, 22 Jun 2009 0:00:00 EDT President Obama's plan to slash or eliminate some missile defense programs survived handily in the House Armed Services Committee (HASC), but missile defense proponents are expected to launch a new offensive against authorization cuts on the House floor... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/financial/7226.html Mon, 22 Jun 2009 0:00:00 EDT Disrupting Constellation Program Spacecraft Development Could Mean More Job Losses, On Top Of Plunging Space Shuttle Employment Underfunding Can Threaten Astronauts' Lives NASA, the largest space agency on the planet, has been short-changed of funds... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/financial/7227.html Mon, 22 Jun 2009 0:00:00 EDT North Korea May Be Poised To Launch Another Taepo Dong-2 Ballistic Missile Toward Japan Or Hawaii In Early July Obama Says U.S. Poised For 'Any Contingencies' Although the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) missile shield was built to take down incoming... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/financial/7229.html Mon, 22 Jun 2009 0:00:00 EDT NPOESS Program Run With Cost Savings Paramount, Not Mission Success: Study Witnesses: NPOESS Is Broke, And It Is Time To Fix It; Yet Another $1 Billion Cost Rise Is Predicted Costs of the National Polar-Orbiting Environmental Satellite System, or NPOESS, have... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/financial/7231.html Mon, 22 Jun 2009 0:00:00 EDT Military Leaders Say Total U.S. Missile Defense System Has 90 Percent Chance Of Success Sens. Sessions, Begich, Flail Cuts In Missile Defense Budget Before Study Is Done; Sen. Thune Backs Laser The Airborne Laser (ABL) missile defense system drew praise from... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/financial/7232.html Mon, 22 Jun 2009 0:00:00 EDT By Ann Roosevelt The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) and the Boeing [BA], Northrop Grumman [NOC] and Lockheed Martin [LMT] industry team said the prototype Airborne Laser (ABL) successfully conducted its first two tracking tests against boosting missile targets... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/financial/7233.html Mon, 22 Jun 2009 0:00:00 EDT Two Arianespace-led Russian Soyuz spacecraft each will launch two Galileo navigational satellites next year two... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/financial/7235.html Mon, 22 Jun 2009 0:00:00 EDT The Max Launch Abort System (MLAS)launched from Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Va., this morning. That test had been set for Saturday, but was delayed to today because of poor weather and site preparation work. The unpiloted test is part of an... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/financial/7236.html Mon, 22 Jun 2009 0:00:00 EDT The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-O, or GOES-O, will launch Friday in a window of 6:14 p.m. to 7:14 p.m. ET from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. GOES-O is the second... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/financial/7238.html Mon, 22 Jun 2009 0:00:00 EDT Reps. Turner, Franks Assail Cuts As Harmful To U.S. National Security In a challenge to President Obama, some members of Congress will attempt to roll back at least some of his planned funding cuts in missile defense programs. A pitched battle will erupt... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/financial/7140.html Mon, 15 Jun 2009 0:00:00 EDT The Airborne Laser (ABL) is proceeding well toward a successful shoot-down of a target missile later this year, Army Lt. Gen. Patrick O'Reilly, director of the Missile Defense Agency (MDA), said. "We are in very good shape in achieving that, at this... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/financial/7143.html Mon, 15 Jun 2009 0:00:00 EDT While some lawmakers and other critics say President Obama's budget plan leaves NASA underfunded, his proposal may be far better than what the space agency ultimately will receive from Congress. The House Appropriations Committee commerce, justice, science... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/financial/7055.html Mon, 8 Jun 2009 0:00:00 EDT Commercial Space Industry Poised For Launch, Lifting Investors On A Ride To Success, Garriott Predicts; New Uses For Space Seen NEW YORK -- Private commercial space firms will be able to perform space missions for a fraction of the money that NASA requires to... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/financial/7056.html Mon, 8 Jun 2009 0:00:00 EDT Payton Says If GPS III Contract Award Had Been Protested, Air Force Still Was Set To Let Winner Commence Work On Critically Needed Satellites NEW YORK -- The Department of Defense can lessen the chance that defense contractors will protest contract awards to... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/financial/7057.html Mon, 8 Jun 2009 0:00:00 EDT Proposal For More Targets Seen This Summer; MDA Seeks New Sources Of Target Missiles The U.S. missile defense program has a cost problem, not so much with the high-speed interceptors that can obliterate an enemy missile, but with the price tags on target... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/financial/7059.html Mon, 8 Jun 2009 0:00:00 EDT