As the U.S. Navy continues to pursue an operational shipboard laser, interest is growing in ensuring the systems will work reliably and effectively in the demanding maritime environment.
LOCKHEED MARTIN completed assembly and began critical environmental testing of NOAA GOES-R satellite in Denver. RAYTHEON has $149m U.S. Navy contract for 74 Standard Missile-6 all-up rounds, spares, containers and services. GENERAL ATOMICS AERONAUTICAL SYSTEMS delivered third Predator B/MQ-9 Reaper to French defense ministry, joining two other Reapers in service that have logged 4,000 flight hr. since January 2014.
The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is directing government departments and agencies to make their fiscal 2017 discretionary budget requests 5% lower than the fiscal 2017 projection in their respective fiscal 2016 budget plans, unless otherwise directed. “In working toward this funding target, all agencies should include sufficient funding for ongoing Presidential priorities and continue efforts to increase effectiveness and reduce fragmentation, overlap and duplication,” OMB says in a letter dated May 1.
Hubble Telescope images have revealed that Pluto and its five moons orbit in a complex choreography unlike anything else in the Solar System, which could be bad news for NASA’s New Horizons probe.
Flight data analysis shows that the fatal crash of an A400M airlifter in Spain on May 9 is attributable to problems with the aircraft’s engine electronic control units, officials from Airbus Defense and Space and Spain’s military accident investigation service, CITAAM, have confirmed.
Sikorsky Aircraft plans to cut more than 1,400 production-related jobs globally over the next year and close a facility in Connecticut, the company said June 2.
The U.S. Navy hopes to continue to bolster its service contract deals, but will also keep a sharp eye out for the way those transactions are structured, Navy officials responsible for overseeing such work say.
Northrop Grumman recently completed the Consolidated Afloat Networks and Enterprise Services (Canes) program’s design, development and limited deployment phase for the U.S. Navy, the company says.
Canadian helicopter operator HNZ Group has purchased an interest in Norwegian offshore helicopter operator Norsk Helikopterservice (NHS), giving the company its first inroad into the North Sea helicopter market.
The U.S. Air Force is investigating an accidental release of sensitive information that occurred leading up to the June 2 request for proposals for the service’s Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle program.
A new type of solar-electric propulsion that is approaching flight test with NASA backing could widen the range of applications for small satellites, and particularly cubesats.
Russia’s federal space agency, Roscosmos, plans to present a more defined schedule of Soyuz crew and Progress cargo mission launches and departures in support of International Space Station operations next week, after a state commission presented its findings in the failed April 28 launch of the Progress M-27M/59 resupply capsule.
Northrop Grumman is flying prototypes of a new quick-change targeting pod designed to carry multiple payloads, including a Selex-ES infrared search and track (IRST) system, and has a contract to test it on an unspecified tactical aircraft.
Boeing is accelerating production of its P-8 Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft amid mounting signs of additional international sales and solid funding for planned U.S. Navy procurement.
Defense ministers in the Baltic States are discussing options for a joint midrange air defense system to cover the three countries to counter potential Russian aggression.
U.S. Navy Naval Air Systems Command (Navair) program managers failed to follow U.S. Navy policy concerning waivers and certification for initial operational test and evaluation (IOT&E) of the E-2D Advanced Hawkeye aircraft and the distributed targeting system for the P-8A Poseidon, the Pentagon Inspector General (IG) says.
The Los Angeles-class attack submarine SSN 754 USS Topeka arrived at its new homeport of U.S. Naval Base Guam recently – the fourth submarine assigned there.
In the wake of a recent review of U.S. Navy homeporting operations, the U.S. Government Accountability Office is calling for better accounting of the strategy.
