In a question-and-answer session after a speech to the Aero Club of Washington, the NASA Administrator stressed that NASA is “the only federal agency with a congressional prohibition against bilateral activities with China,” and said he and the new head of Roscosmos have not discussed future cooperation with the only other nation that has launched humans into space.
Pentagon science and technology (S&T) leaders are working to convince Congress that a return of sequestration budget caps would put at risk research into the next generation of weapons designed to give the U.S. an edge over future adversaries.
The Joint Investigation Team (JIT) probing the loss of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 has begun a criminal investigation into the transportation of the Buk surface-to-air missile system alleged to have shot down the airliner.
Relatives and colleagues believe it may be the obvious psychological rather than physical limits that emerge as the biggest challenge for NASA astronaut Scott Kelly as he embarks on the U.S. record-setting mission on the International Space Station.
As the Netherlands prepares to take delivery of its first F-35s in 2019, the country’s air arm is studying how it will train its fifth-generation fighter pilots.
South Korea has chosen Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) as the preferred bidder for developing the proposed KF-X indigenous fighter, rejecting a late offer from Korean Air Lines with backing from Airbus.
European launch consortium Arianespace successfully orbited a second pair of operational Galileo navigation and timing satellites for the European Commission on March 27.
Alenia Aermacchi says it is in talks with another U.S. prime contractor after General Dynamics pulled the plug on the partnership to offer the M-346 for the U.S. Air Force’s T-X advanced jet trainer program.
The U.S. Air Force is balancing between losing capability and meeting an urgent request to equip Air National Guard Lockheed Martin F-16s assigned to homeland defense with active electronically scanned array radars to detect small radar cross-section targets, such as cruise missiles.
A consortium of oil and gas companies have committed £60 million ($88 million) to providing a search and rescue helicopter capability for the oil and gas platforms in the North Sea.
THALES and BAE SYSTEMS have Maritime Mine Counter Measures (MMCM) drone system contract from French and U.K. defense ministries. Contract covers development of two prototype systems (surface and underwater) by 2019. U.K. ROYAL NAVY conducted sea trials with Merlin Mk. 3 helicopters aboard Royal Fleet Auxiliary Lyme Bay, operating from Cornwall Base. AUSTRALIA provided initial approval for replacement air search radar for Anzac frigates, being developed by CEA TECHNOLOGIES of Canberra.
FIGHTER RADAR: The U.S. Navy has awarded Raytheon Co. a $16.3 million firm-fixed-price delivery order against a previously issued basic ordering agreement for the procurement of six AN/APG-79 Active Electronically Scanned Array radar systems in support of the F/A-18 E/F aircraft, the service has announced. The work will be performed in Forest, Mississippi; Andover, Massachusetts; and El Segundo, California; and is expected to be completed in March 2017. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity.
Honda Aircraft has received a provisional type certificate from the FAA for its HondaJet, which represents a milestone in the program and for the company.
U S. astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko rocketed into Earth orbit on March 27, initiating the first “yearlong” mission to the International Space Station, where they will serve as subjects in a range of medical experiments intended to nurture plans for future human deep space exploration.
U.S. Air Force officials are confident the unique approach they have taken leading up to a request for proposals for a forthcoming competition to replace the T-38 advanced pilot trainer has sparked enough competition to drive cost for the system down, a brigadier general says.
While the U.S. Navy is hoping for more positive tests with the redesigned Advanced Arresting Gear (AAG) being placed aboard CVN 78 Gerald R. Ford-class carriers, the service also needs to see more reliability from the equipment.
It may be time to review the command structure of the U.S. military as constructed under Goldwater-Nichols legislation during the Reagan Administration, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz) says.
The Chinese DH-10 and recently unveiled Iranian Soumar cruise missiles have many similarities since both have common origins – Iran and China obtained a number of disarmed Russian KH-55 air-launched cruise missiles (ALCM) from Ukraine in the early 2000s.
