The U.S. Marine Corps has adopted a new Amphibious Combat Vehicle (ACV) acquisition approach since last year that both uses and deviates from best practices as defined by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), the watchdog agency says.
The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has called for greater cooperation between civil and military air traffic management agencies after a significant increase in the number of proximity incidents between what it calls “non-cooperative military traffic.”
The Eurofighter consortium says a final assembly line for the Typhoon could be set up in Indonesia if the combat aircraft is selected to replace that country’s aging fleet of F-5 Tigers.
SpaceX is thought to be focusing on static friction in an engine throttle valve as the prime suspect for the loss of the Falcon 9 first stage during the third attempt at recovering the booster.
NORTHROP GRUMMAN’s ASTRO AEROSPACE delivered Deployable Tower Assembly (DTA) for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to Northrop’s Space Park facility in Redondo Beach, CA; DTA supports spacecraft and the telescope structures. RAYTHEON plans to test a new multi-mode seeker for Tomahawk cruise missile in second quarter captive flight; test is key milestone in Tomahawk modernization and will help enable missile to strike moving targets on land and sea.
United Launch Alliance CEO Tory Bruno says his choice of planning to reuse only the BE-4 engines – not the entire first stage – of the company’s new Vulcan rocket was driven purely by the economics.
United Launch Alliance CEO Tory Bruno says Aerojet Rocketdyne’s claim of delivering an AR-1 rocket engine capable of operating on the Atlas V or Vulcan vehicles by 2018 is “ridiculous.”
While maintaining strong support for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, lawmakers are worrying about the efficacy and cost of the Automated Logistics Information System (ALIS), the program’s gee-whiz maintenance tool.
The high cost and ambitious scope of two Brazilian military projects will lead to delays in the launching of other major projects, according to industry executives at the LAAD defense and security show here.
Human explorers would find many uses for an international “Moon station” after the International Space Station is shut down in the coming decade, says Johann-Dietrich Woerner, head of the German Aerospace Center (DLR).
In response to a recent clarion call by the U.S. Navy to gain greater range for its missile attacks, Boeing says it has developed a kit to extend the range of its Harpoon antiship missile, in part by reducing the size of its warhead.
From new users to repeat customers, the nonprofit Center for the Advancement of Science in Space reports a growing interest in the International Space Station as a laboratory research platform.
NovaWurks has entered a commercial agreement with a Canadian startup to build a 40-satellite constellation of optical platforms using the mass-produced “satlets” it is developing with funding from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency under Darpa’s Phoenix satellite-recovery project.
Although Ad Astra Rocket Co. isn’t giving up on aspirations of interplanetary travel, the 10-year-old enterprise is focused firmly in the near term on ground-level refinements and a key demonstration of its novel plasma propulsion technologies through a new NASA Advanced Exploration Systems partnership agreement.
Honeywell, Inmarsat and satcoms technology specialist Kymeta are developing a Ka-band antenna for business and commercial aviation that should offer better broadband service and suit installation in smaller aircraft.
The 31st Space Symposium is underway this week in Colorado Springs, with a host of government and industry space speakers from around the world including NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, European Space Agency Director-General Jean-Jacques Dordain and U.S. Air Force Space Command chief Gen. John Hyten. Also this week is the Navy League’s annual Sea-Air-Space symposium near Washington. Meanwhile, inside the capital beltway U.S.
NASA doesn’t currently plan to return astronauts to the surface of the Moon, but it would be willing to accept a ride down from cislunar space on a vehicle provided by its international partners to enrich preparations for a human landing on Mars.
Saab and Embraer have signed an agreement covering joint development of the JAS 39E/F Gripen Next Generation fighter at the LAAD defense and security show in Rio De Janeiro.
SpaceX’s sixth Dragon commercial resupply mission spacecraft climbed to orbit April 14, initiating a three-day trip to the six-person International Space Station (ISS) with a 4,300-lb. cargo, following a 24-hr. weather delay.
