Major increases this year include classified research and development under Air Force operational systems development, which would grow 25% over 2015 to reach $12.8 billion – 75% of Air Force operational systems development and almost half of all Air Force R&D.
The 2016 budgets for the U.S. Defense and Energy departments mark the start or expansion of a number of nuclear-deterrence initiatives, but with many of the bills coming due in future years.
YU Lounge at Robert L. Bradshaw International Airport in Basseterre, St. Kitts & Nevis in the Caribbean; Jet Center Curacao at Hato International Airport in Willemstad, Curacao; and Ecuacentair at Mariscal Sucre International Airport in Quito, Equador have signed with the company’s network.
The demand for charter services continues to grow, and the aircraft is positioned to meet demand from private customers, corporations and tour operators, it said.
The Obama administration’s budget blueprint for the next five fiscal years will try to kick-start the long-awaited defense technology push at the Pentagon.
The fiscal 2016 budget request of about $161 billion represents an increase of about $1.5 billion, or 1%, compared to the previous fiscal year’s request.
The rocket lifted off at 7:31 a.m. EST carrying the Boeing-built GX spacecraft, also known as Inmarsat-5 F2. Spacecraft separation followed 15.5 hr. later at 12:02 a.m. EST.
The procurement and research and development (R&D) plan would increase in the fiscal 2016 budget request by $8 billion compared with levels enacted by Congress in fiscal 2015.
Jiangsu Shangshang Cable Group has “won the contract for China’s second aircraft carrier,” the government of the eastern city of Changzhou has announced.
Controllers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory are setting up NASA’s Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Earth-observation satellite following its Jan. 31 launch into polar orbit from Vandenberg AFB, Calif.
To list an event, send information in calendar format to Donna Thomas at [email protected]. (Bold type indicates new calendar listing.) Feb. 2-3 — Aviation Week MRO Middle East, Dubai World Trade Center, Dubai, UAE. For more information go to www.aviationweek.com/events Feb. 4-5 — Naval Future Force Science and Technology Expo, Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Washington, D.C. For more information go to www.onr.navy.mil/conference-event-onr.aspx
While China and Russia will likely continue to strengthen their ties in certain areas, China will probably refrain from any deals with its neighbor that will cause possible rifts with the U.S., says Bonnie Glaser, senior Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) adviser for Asia. “The Chinese really don’t want tension with their relationship with the U.S.,” Glaser says. China and Russia have been developing a closer relationship lately, and CSIS officials see that continuing in specific areas. For example, Glaser noted Jan.
NORTHROP GRUMMAN appointed Frank Spina managing director of navigation systems subsidiary in Pomezia, Italy, effective immediately. AEROJET ROCKETDYNE has contract from Airbus Defence and Space and Thales Alenia Space for initial development of new electronic controller for the XR-5 Hall Thruster. RAYTHEON has $139m contract for 100 Tomahawk Block IV All-Up-Round missiles. Work to be completed by August 2017.
Further U.S. Army budget cuts that might result from sequestration could put at risk industry’s ability to deliver an advanced rotorcraft if they slow aviation modernization and delay the Future Vertical Lift (FVL) program, says a senior aviation branch officer.
