In case anyone is still wondering, Boeing’s work with Russia’s VSMPO-Avisma for titanium supplies remains unchanged and robust, despite Western sanctions elsewhere due to the conflict in Ukraine.
Development of unmanned systems to help manned platforms survive in high-threat environments is a key feature of new programs previewed by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) in its fiscal 2016 budget request.
Details of the incident, believed to have involved an Air Force F-16 operating from Jordan during a air-to-surface attack last Nov. 10, remain unconfirmed.
The Guimbal Cabri G2, a piston-engine light helicopter designed by former Airbus Helicopters engineer Bruno Guimbal, was awarded certification on Feb. 3 after a 16-month program.
After playing pingpong with Congress over how best to overhaul the nation’s cruiser fleet, the U.S. Navy’s fiscal 2016 budget request includes a revamped schedule for ship work.
With the U.S. Navy seeing more certainty that it will now be able to fund the overhaul work of the CVN 73 USS George Washington, the service is getting ready to plan and award contracts for the job.
In fiscal 2016 budget documents, the U.S. Air Force notes a plan to start funding in fiscal 2018 for modifications to the selected T-X trainer replacement to enable it to operate in the traditional aggressor role during live-fly training for fighter pilots.
Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin have each scaled back work on developing their own company-funded designs for the U.S. Navy’s Unmanned Carrier Launched Airborne Surveillance and Strike (Uclass) aircraft.
NASA’s proposed $18.5 billion budget for fiscal 2016 and its long-range vision of delivering human explorers to the Martian surface bodes especially well for the agency’s Johnson Space Center.
Saudi Arabia is the first export customer for the MBDA Meteor missile, having signed a contract worth more than $1 billion for the weapon, according to French media.
Not only is the Navy deploying a higher percentage of its ships and associated aircraft to the region, the service is also planning to put its most advanced assets there and invest more heavily in regional bases and facilities.
Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) does not expect to take delivery of the Thales Alenia Space-built Gokturk-1 high-resolution optical imaging satellite until midyear at the earliest, when it is expected to undergo final assembly, integration and test at TAI’s new satellite processing facility in Ankara.
Raytheon has not decided whether to bid for the U.S. Army’s Joint Air-to-Ground Missile (JAGM) program now that the long-awaited request for proposals (RFP) for engineering and manufacturing development (EMD) has been released.
The U.S. Navy’s fiscal 2016 budget request includes money to buy Seahawk helicopters that the Navy had cut from last year’s request when the carrier program was uncertain.
The back-to-back accidents that afflicted the budding commercial spaceflight industry last year have triggered more interest on Capitol Hill in how the U.S. government will regulate that industry in the years ahead, according to the chairman of the House subcommittee that authorizes civil-space spending.
