Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

“The fear is there in the younger generation,” says John Chen-Chung Deng, Taiwan's minister of economic affairs.

CHARLES STARK DRAPER LABORATORY INC. has $302.4m U.S. NAVY contract for ongoing acquisition of Trident (D5) MK 6 Guidance System Repair Program. Work

NASA Kennedy Space Center Director Robert Cabana will be honored as the 29th recipient of the National Space Trophy, an annual presentation of the

A satellite conceived by then-Vice President Al Gore 17 years ago as a real-time whole-Earth imager, and later converted to an early warning "buoy" for solar storms, is on its way to its parking spot 1 million mi. from Earth after launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9.

The mission, dubbed the Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle (IXV), lifted off at 10:40 a.m. local time atop a Vega rocket launched from the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana.

The Dragon capsule, loaded with 3,700 lb. of science experiments, station hardware and trash, was headed for port in Long Beach, California on Feb. 11 after being hoisted aboard a SpaceX recovery vessel.

Fort Worth is scheduled to participate in Foal Eagle in March, exercises with regional navies throughout U.S. 7th Fleet.

The response to the December cyberattack on Sony Pictures, and the U.S. government sanctions on North Korea that followed, have raised some eyebrows in the information-assurance and cyber-defense communities.

G/ATOR is being designed to be used initially in air surveillance and air defense roles, with follow-on ground weapon location/counter-targeting and air traffic control capabilities.

The equipment is a key component of the FAA’s Next Generation Air Transportation System, or NextGen.

Late last year,the Improved Fresnel Lens Optical Landing System (IFLOLS) Phase IV (MK 13 Mod 1) was installed on the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69).

IAI introduced ELI-3360 Maritime Patrol Aircraft (MPA), a modified Global 5000 with advanced ELTA ELM-2022 radar, electro-optical sensor, ESM/ELINT

Although Obama administration witnesses are not yet scheduled to appear publicly on Capitol Hill to defend their sequestration-ignoring fiscal 2016

Selected U.S. military contracts for Feb. 2, 2015 U.S. NAVY John Bean Technologies Corp., Ogden, Utah, is being awarded a $20,903,104 ceiling-priced

The House of Representatives adopted a reprise of the fiscal 2015 NASA authorization bill it passed by a vote of 401-2 last year, only to see it die for lack of Senate action.

SpaceX’s fifth Dragon re-supply mission departed the International Space Station with 3,700 lb. of research gear and other equipment on Feb. 10 en route to a Pacific Ocean splashdown and sunset recovery off the southern California coast.

Amid a growing demand for corporate aircraft, challenges remain, says the International Bureau of Aviation, based in Leatherhead, Surrey in the U.K.

But the Poseidon still needs to show more prowess for intelligence, reconnaissance and surveillance operations, DOT&E says.

Lrasm is now a $1.14 billion accelerated acquisition program to meet an urgent need to deploy an air-launched anti-ship missile by 2018.

The launch and landings will unfold over four Russian Soyuz missions launched and recovered from Kazakhstan.

The U.K. has become the first nation outside of the U.S. to begin "organic" Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter test operations.

As happens every few years, Congress has requested a report on how effectively Darpa transitions new technologies to the services.

Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) is introducing a new maritime surveillance and anti-submarine and anti-surface warfare aircraft at Aero India 2015.

The new bill follows the $18 billion topline for the agency included in the fiscal 2015 spending bill already adopted.

"We have a big smile on our face," said French arms procurement chief Laurent Collet-Billon during an annual media address here Feb. 9, one day after Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian confirmed press reports that Paris and Cairo are in talks over a state-backed arms package for Egypt.