Has USAF Taken “Slow Down” to Heart for Space Radar?: USAF proposes $266 million in 2007 for the Space Radar program. The dollars would fund technology maturation, demonstration, and risk reduction activities. Congress has questioned whether the program is moving too fast and trimmed its 2006 funding.
RTX, parent of Raytheon, Collins and Pratt & Whitney, is getting out of the space prime business and focusing on its "strengths" as a maker of space sensors, buses, and components, company COO Chris Calio said during an earnings call.