Woodstock Wire: Defense Dispatch

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.