Alliant Techsystems News

The United Way of Montgomery, Radford & Floyd on Friday afternoon announced a $51,000 check it received from Alliant Techsystems this week.

A series of management changes at Eden Prairie-based Alliant Techsystems Inc. were announced Thursday, the first big shifts at the company since Mark DeYoung took over as CEO last month.

STATUS REPORT Date Released: Monday, March 1, 2010 Source: Alliant Techsystems - Comments What: Key representatives from Florida's space industry will visit Tallahassee to participate in Florida Space Day and share the challenges the industry faces in ensuring Florida remains at the forefront of the nation's space program.

Amid anger in Congress, NASA may be rethinking plans to cancel its Constellation program.

The official final year of the NASA space shuttle program began here Thursday with a two-minute test burn of a reusable solid fuel rocket motor like those that have launched 105 missions in the past 30 years.

Alliant Techsystems Inc. said Tig Krekel, a partner at a New York private-equity investment bank and former aerospace executive, has been elected to its board of directors.

ATK and NASA conducts the final booster motor ground test for the Space Shuttle program Thursday about 25 miles west of Brigham City.

SALT LAKE CITY a ' With the U.S. space shuttle program fading, a Utah company that makes powerful booster rockets for space travel conducted its final ground test Thursday.

USRocket Test,0135 Utah company conducts final test on shuttle rocket Eds: APNewsNow.

The Lake City Army Ammunition Plant in Independence is bolstering its global presence and growth opportunities by supplying ammunition for weapons that typically are not used by the U.S. military.

Alliant Techsystems is proud to announce that its Board of Directors has unanimously voted to appoint Mark DeYoung as the companya s new President and Chief Executive Officer , effective immediately.

After reading Orbital Sciences ' 2009 earnings report, the best I can manage is a shrug of dismissal.

I'll be the first to admit that a year ago, I figured new President Barack Obama would tip the spending scale back to the butter side of the "guns and butter" spectrum.

Alliant Techsystems celebrated a major milestone today as it prepares to conduct final testing and ship the Operational Responsive Space-1 satellite bus, after building it in just 16 months.

Mark Clements, a Weber State University alumnus, has been working with the local Space Systems branch of Alliant Techsystems Inc.

Alliant Techsystems announced today that it will participate as an exhibitor at DEFEXPO 2010 in New Delhi, India.

Presbyterian Homesa $200M Eden Prairie project gets grant: Presbyterian Homes and Services received a grant last month from the Metropolitan Council that helps move forward a planned $200 million mixed-use project in Eden Prairie.

PRESS RELEASE Date Released: Sunday, February 7, 2010 Source: Alliant Techsystems - Comments Test will Ensure Safety for Four Remaining Shuttle Flights Alliant Techsystems and NASA will conduct the last ground test for the Space Shuttle program on February 25, marking the closure of a program that has spanned more than three decades and ushering in ...

The head of Alliant Techsystems' largest division on Thursday was named to lead the military supplier and aerospace contractor.

Revenue $1,141.5 $1,109.5 +2.9 Income 78.4 61.3 +27.8 Net/cm 78.4 61.4 +27.6 Earn/share 2.33 1.85 +25.9 9 months Revenue $3,558.6 $3,326.3 +7.0 Income* 220.5 177.3 +24.4 Net/cm* 220.3 177.3 +24.3 Earn/share 6.60 5.17 +27.7 Figures in millions except for earnings per share.