With the next defense budget apparently weeks away from being released, there seems to be little doubt that the U.S. Navy will stick to its guns with its current shipbuilding strategy to rebuild its fleet.
Senior Nigerian air force (NAF) officers say they are troubled by equipment and training issues as the air arm uses its helicopters to take on the insurgent group Boko Haram.
While the U.S. Navy and Lockheed Martin keep to on-time schedules and costs for Aegis combat system upgrades, the Pentagon Director, Operational Test and Evaluation says more and in many cases better testing is needed to validate the work.
U.S. Navy officials say they could not be more pleased with Raytheon’s work on the proposed air-and-missile-defense radar suite, but the Pentagon Director, Operational Test and Evaluation says the current testing fails to prove the system can do the job.
The reassessment of the potential $1 billion program expected to take four months. It is unclear if the service will reassess existing bids or allow competitors to submit amended proposals.
On the heels of Tuesday night’s State of the Union Address, the Senate Armed Services Committee will hold a hearing Wednesday morning in Washington with Brent Scowcroft and Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski testifying on global challenges and U.S. national security strategy. Also that morning, the House Foreign Relations Committee will hold a hearing on the status of Iranian nuclear talks with Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken and David Cohen, under secretary for terrorism and financial intelligence at the Treasury Department.
While the U.S. Navy continues to tout the benefits of the CVN Ford-class aircraft carriers, the Pentagon Director, Operational Test and Evaluation (DOT&E) still questions the readiness and reliability of some of the technological advancements of the ships and the service’s testing plan.
India will conduct the first test of the air-launched version of the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile in March, using an Indian air force Su-30MKI fighter, according to an official involved in the project.
President Barack Obama extended best wishes to NASA astronaut Scott Kelly during the president's State of the Union address, as Kelly prepares to launch to the International Space Station this spring for a U.S. record-setting one-year stay.
The U.S. Navy is coming to grips with how to conduct anti-submarine warfare (ASW) from high altitude as it transitions from the turboprop Lockheed P-3C Orion to the Boeing P-8A Poseidon, a derivative of the 737 commercial airliner.
Initial operational test and evaluation of the Boeing KC-46A tanker is "likely" to slip by at least one year according to the just-released fiscal 2014 annual report on the program from the Pentagon’s Director of Operational Test & Evaluation.
The “distributed lethality” operational concept for U.S. surface warships touted earlier this month during the Surface Navy Association National Symposium is tailor-made for Asia-Pacific operations, the Navy’s commander of Naval Surface Forces says.
The U.S. Navy took a further step toward establishing its next-generation Mobile User Objective System satcom constellation with the successful launch of the third satellite by a United Launch Alliance Atlas V on Jan. 20.
Aurora Flight Sciences has filed for a world endurance record following an 80-hr. flight last month by its Orion unmanned aircraft system (UAS). This compares directly with the record of 30.4 hr. set by the Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk in 2001.
Before the two-orbit Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1) on Dec. 5, engineers had expected temperatures on the capsule’s heat shield to reach almost 4,000F. But thermocouples buried below the surface of the 16.5-ft.-dia. protective shield registered only about 3,500F.
A major operational test series planned for the Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter has been abandoned in an attempt to protect the schedule for delivering a fully operational aircraft, according to the just-released fiscal 2014 report on the program from the Pentagon’s Director of Operational Test & Evaluation.
In putting together its package to win the vaunted U.S. Navy Air And Missile Defense Radar (AMDR), Raytheon bet it could do the job in rapid time – and so far the contractor has been able to keep the odds in its favor.
