With estimates that 700,000 consumer UAVs, or “drones,” could be sold by year-end, “we need to get something in place quickly,” FAA Administrator Michael Huerta said.
The Spanish government has given the green light to the country’s defense ministry to purchase General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper medium altitude, long endurance UAVs.
The French and U.K. governments have marked the fifth anniversary of the Lancaster House defense treaties by signing an agreement on the creation of missile centers of excellence.
Fernando Alonso, who took over the division in March, says he and his team have stabilized the industrial layout of the A400M, paving the way for increased rates of production and focusing to bring tactical capabilities on the aircraft on stream.
Leaders representing all eight coast guard agencies of the Arctic nations signed a joint statement officially establishing the Arctic Coast Guard Forum.
The head of Airbus Defense and Space’s military aircraft division says that the aerial refueling of helicopters by the company’s A400M airlifter is now the subject of a research project after admitting it will be impossible to achieve in the aircraft’s current configuration.
Israel Aerospace Industries’ Gulfstream G550-based Multimission Airborne Reconnaissance Surveillance System airborne ground surveillance system is now in full development.
U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter has emphasized the need for the “so-called six-party talks to call for the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula.”
The head of the company’s military aircraft division, Fernando Alonso, says the aircraft could be used more flexibly while flying racetrack patterns in the sky waiting to provide fighters with fuel.
NASA human-spaceflight managers are evaluating whether it will be possible to switch to a more capable upper stage for the heavy-lift Space Launch System (SLS) in time for its first flight with a crew.
BAE Systems is partnering with air-breathing rocket developer Reaction Engines as part of an agreement under which BAE will acquire a 20% share of the U.K.-based company for £20.6 million.
An Oct. 30 story on South Korea’s KF-X should have said the program may not live into 2016, despite a funding recommendation by the defense committee of parliament.
INTERNATIONAL LAUNCH SERVICES (ILS) and EUTELSAT COMMUNICATIONS signed multi-launch agreement for KHRUNICHEV Proton Breeze M launches from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, to take place over seven years.
The U.S. Defense Department appropriated about $16.5 billion of its topline fiscal 2015 budget for military intelligence programs (MIP), the Pentagon reports. The total includes both the base budget and Overseas Contingency Operations funding. No other MIP budget figures or program details will be released, the Pentagon says, as they remain classified for national security reasons.
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Intended to merge the interests of scientists and those responsible for the safety and productivity of the astronauts assigned to the initial year’s long journeys to the red planet, the four-day exercise produced passionate presentations from science teams.
