Raytheon will provide the primary sensor package with the Bombardier Global 6000 as its primary platform choice for now, says Jack O’Banion, vice president of strategy and customer requirements for Skunk Works.
“I could easily foresee the day … when the F-22 might rotate in,” Deborah James told reporters at the Paris air show here June 15, adding that she could not specify a date by which they would be sent.
Ford-class aircraft carriers will generate and manage the kind of power necessary to operate directed energy (DE) weapons to better protect the ships—as well as give them more offensive punch, according to U.S. Navy officials.
Satellite internet startup OneWeb Ltd. has selected Airbus Defense and Space to serve as an industrial partner in the design and production of a fleet of 900 small internet satellites.
After years of trying to sell the space division of Avio SpA, private-equity investor Cinven Ltd. is preparing to unload a majority of its 81% stake in the company.
With a little help from the U.S. Congress and the potential for international orders, Boeing is bullish about prospects for its international fighters.
NORTHROP GRUMMAN teamed with GENERAL DYNAMICS, GULFSTREAM and L-3 to pursue U.S. Air Force Joint Stars recap program. RAYTHEON has $152.9m U.S. Navy contract for 53 APY-10 radar system production kits and related support for P-8A Poseidon full-rate production Lots 2-6 for the Navy (46) and the government of Australia (7).
U.S. Coast Guard Vice Adm. Peter Neffenger is being vetted for one of the most challenging jobs in government — overhauling the Transportation Security Administration. In early June acting administrator Melvin Carraway was yanked off the job by Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson. Several subsequently released reports by Homeland Security Department Inspector General shed light on why.
Flight testing of airborne sense-and-avoid technology for U.S. Air Force unmanned aircraft is set to transition from a Learjet manned surrogate to Northrop Grumman’s optionally piloted Firebird.
This is the first competition between SpaceX and United Launch Alliance since the former was certified to compete for U.S. national security launch contracts, breaking ULA’s near-decade monopoly in this arena. A request for proposals is expected in July.
NASA is upping its ante in the cubesat arena, with a request for proposals (RFP) designed to spur a commercial launch industry dedicated to the tiny spacecraft, and with separate plans to send two cubesats on a piggyback mission to Mars next year.
