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The Board affirmed a refusal to register the design shown below as a trademark for ammunition, finding that it fails to function as a source indicator.

For the first time in more than a quarter-century, a new space vehicle will begin stacking on a mobile launch platform at Kennedy Space Center, thanks to the hard work and dedication of an experienced team of employees from NASA and contractors United Space Alliance and Alliant Techsystems .

ATK Plays Key Roles in Successful Launch of the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite O PRESS RELEASE Date Released: Saturday, July 4, 2009 Source: Alliant Techsystems - Comments ATK's Propulsion, Composite and Satellite Technologies Contribute to GOES-O Satellite Mission ATK Supports the Launch of United Launch Alliance's Delta IV ...

More than 60 factory workers from the former Michael Bianco plant in New Bedford lined the corner of Route 27 and Kansas Street Wednesday in a plea to Army officials at Natick Labs to save their jobs.

This September 2006 first-stage motor firing was successful, but the Missile Defense Agency now cites repeated first and second booster case failures as factors that delayed the Kinetic Energy Interceptor programme.

Motors Assist Stage Separation and Second Stage Engine Safe Start-Up HUNTSVILLE, Ala., July 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Alliant Techsystems was selected by The Boeing Company to manufacture the upper stage ullage motors for the new Ares I launch vehicle.

Alliant Techsystems in Minneapolis, MN received $42 million in small-caliber ammunition orders from the U.S. Army Sustainment Command in Rock Island, IL to produce 5.56mm, 7.62mm and .50-caliber ammunition.

Scores of low-wage workers from a New Bedford factory that makes Army backpacks gathered for an emotional meeting yesterday with elected officials, clergy, and labor activists to demand that the 350-employee plant not be shuttered next month as planned.

ATK Systems and Structures Essential to Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Launch ATK Helps LRO Mission Gather Data to Enable Future Long-Duration Human Lunar Missions MINNEAPOLIS, June 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Alliant Techsystems played a key role in the successful launch of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter / Lunar CRater Observation Sensing ...

Alliant Techsystems Inc. Chairman and CEO Daniel Murphy took home nearly $9 million in total compensation in fiscal 2009, down more than 14 percent from the previous year.

An Alliant Techsystem spokesman said Wednesday that the company is not planning layoffs despite a Utah legislator's comments earlier in the day that the company would be "laying off a tremendous amount of people." During an Education Interim Committee discussion about the state's need for an educated work force, Rep.

Alliant Techsystems Inc. is marketing lightweight composite aircraft parts for regional and business jets after winning an order for the Airbus SAS A350 last month thata s now valued at more than $1 billion.

Alliant Techsystems Inc. is marketing lightweight composite aircraft parts for regional and business jets after winning an order for the Airbus SAS A350 last month that's now valued at more than $1 billion.

Chanting in Portuguese and Spanish and waving posters that read, "Eagle Jobs Belong in New Bedford" and "U.S. Army Stop ATK, Save Our Jobs," Eagle workers rallied Tuesday to protest plans to close the plant.

A group of angry workers held a rally Tuesday, upset that their New Bedford factory will be shut down at the end of July.

ATK Emerges as a Major Aerospace Composites Supplier ATK to Highlight its Affordable ISR Solutions to an International Audience MINNEAPOLIS, June 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Alliant Techsystems announced today that it will participate as an exhibitor at the 2009 Paris Air Show.

Senators Kennedy and Kerry and Representative Frank Stand Up for Workers NEW YORK, June 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Earlier today, 100 Eagle Industries workers in New Bedford, MA, who manufacture backpacks for the U.S. army, rallied outside their factory to save their jobs.

TEL AVIV [MENL] -- Defense companies from Israel and the United States have been advancing in the development of a guided rocket.

A New Bedford leather-goods factory raided in 2007 by immigration agents will close.

The GATR adds an Elbit SAL and ATK propulsion system to a conventional 70 mm FFAR to turn it into a precision-guided weapon.