Germany's finance minister says the pacifist nation must shoulder more military commitments in the coming years.

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden Jr., a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, presented Aviation Week’s Tomorrow’s Leaders Award to students of four U.S. military services academies who have demonstrated overall excellence as well as a keen interest in pursuing various careers in aerospace.

Snowstorm shuts down Washington but fails to halt Aviation Week’s 58th annual Laureate awards ceremony, which salutes aerospace sector’s high achievers.

Carlos Kingston was awarded Aviation Week’s 2015 Defense Laureate for spearheading the MDA’s Ground-Based Midcourse Defense team’s dogged pursuit to identify the cause and to ultimately cure an anomaly in the U.S. ballistic missile defense system.

Two winners took home Aviation Week’s Innovation Laureate for 2015—Raytheon and Saab pursued different routes to achieve the same outcome—introducing gallium nitride power electronics to military radar and electronic-warfare systems.

With the F-35 development program 60% complete and two years to go, the test program is operating at a high pace.

Testers say a software patch gets F-35 closer to promise of multi-ship data fusion.

The Scout motto, “Be Prepared,” came in handy for the pilots of a Boeing 757 flying scientists from Christchurch to Pegasus Field in Antarctica when fog forced a landing at well below instrument minimums.