TAC Air has purchased the facilities of Central Flying Service at the Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport (LIT) in Little Rock, Arkansas, the company said.
“FVL is probably going to deliver in the 2035 time frame,” Major Gen. Robert “Bo” Dyess, the Army’s director of Force Development (G-8), told reporters.
At issue is growing concern among defense planners that advances in hypersonic glide vehicles from China and Russia pose a looming threat to the U.S. and its allies.
The U.S. Missile Defense Agency is "very close to approval" for the strategy to procure the so-called Redesigned Kill Vehicle (RKV) from a national industry team managed by the agency, says director Vice Adm. James Syring.
The twin-jet, T-tail transport is the largest aircraft ever built in South America, and has been developed as a C-130/KC-130 replacement for the Brazilian air force.
With an almost $100 million boost to its fiscal 2015 budget from Congress and a 2016 request that is $20 million up on what the Obama administration originally sought last year, NASA’s aeronautics leadership believes its restructured research program is off to a strong start.
The U.S. Navy has reduced its planned buy of the Lockheed Martin F-35C Joint Strike Fighter by almost one-third over fiscal 2016-2020, while committing almost $800 million to new standoff weapon developments.
The U.S. Navy's fiscal 2016 R&D budget request of $17.9 billion is being buoyed by investments in the Air And Missile Defense Radar (AMDR) program, small surface combatant force and executive helicopter program.
As the U.S. Navy starts the research and development (R&D) to design new frigates based on modified Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) designs, the service continues to fund LCS programs as more of the vessels get ready to enter the fleet.
The first canister-based trial of India’s Agni-V intercontinental ballistic missile was successfully carried out for the missile’s full range of more than 5,000 km from Wheeler Island off the eastern Odisha coast on Jan. 31.
The U.S. Army is seeking $146.5 billion in funding for fiscal 2016 to buy more rotary-wing aircraft and ground combat vehicles, and to upgrade training and readiness.
The U.S. Army is seeking more rotorcraft – including Black Hawks, Apaches and Chinooks – in its fiscal 2016 budget request, but it is all contingent on Congress avoiding another round of funding cuts through sequestration.
Industry groups praised the exclusion of per-flight user fees for general aviation in the White House budget, but say they will vigorously oppose a call to extend business aircraft depreciation schedules.
Financial and defense analyst reaction to the Obama administration’s fiscal 2016 defense budget request and five-year spending blueprint on Feb. 2 was largely muted, tempered by the reality that Washington is a gridlocked capital and President Barack Obama’s spending-growth proposal represents just the latest step in a marathon that may not end. The reason is because while Congress generally wants to spend what is requested or more, no one can agree how to do so.
