The U.S. Air Force wants to apply advanced manufacturing to intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) to design and build systems that can be reconfigured quickly and produced affordably, even at low volume.
Military air safety officials have described as “unsustainable” a decision not to install an airborne collision avoidance system (ACAS) on the Royal Air Force’s (RAF) fleet of Eurofighter Typhoons.
Luxembourg-based fleet operator SES and the Luxembourg government will each invest €50 million ($59 million) to create a joint venture that will build and launch a satellite using military Ka-band and X-band radio frequencies that will be used by the Luxembourg government and NATO allies.
Lockheed Martin and the U.S. Navy expect to begin tests this year or next to marry up the company’s Aegis-anchored Naval Integrated Fire Control-Counter Air (NIFC-CA) components with an F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.
Business aircraft flying in the U.S. finished strong in 2014, with flight activity up for the 13th month in a row in December, according to TraqPak data released by Argus International.
As the U.S. Navy continues to acquire more complex ships, aircraft and other systems, the service is still staying on course with its plans to take on greater responsibility as the lead systems integrator (LSI) for select programs.
U.S. commercial launch services provider SpaceX’s fifth Dragon resupply capsule rendezvoused with the International Space Station ahead of schedule early Jan. 12.
Continued U.S. military aid to Pakistan could hurt American relations with India, says Richard Rossow, a senior fellow who holds the Wadhwani Chair in U.S.-India Policy Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).
Test engineers at NASA’s Stennis Space Center have kicked off testing of surplus Space Shuttle Main Engines for use in the heavy-lift Space Launch System.
To list an event, send information in calendar format to Donna Thomas at [email protected]. (Bold type indicates new calendar listing.) Jan. 20-22 — Sixth AHS International Specialists’ Meeting On Unmanned Rotorcraft Systems: Platform Design, Autonomy, Operator Workload Reduction and Network Centric Operations, Chandler, Arizona. For more information go to www.vtol.org/events/unmanned-rotorcraft-systems
RANGE GENERATION NEXT (RGNext), a joint venture of RAYTHEON and GENERAL DYNAMICS, has $1.5b, one-year contract to manage USAF space launch ranges at Cape Canaveral, FL, and Vandenberg AFB, CA. Work has multi-billion potential with options. BOEING delivered initial two F-22 simulators with its Constant Resolution Visual System (CRVS) to USAF; a third will be delivered by end of 2015 and it plans to upgrade two others with CRVS, which provides high-res imagery for pilots to train with nearly 20/20 acuity.
Virgin Galactic is 90% through the structural build of its second SpaceShipTwo suborbital vehicle and plans to assume control of the test program from its development partner Scaled Composites when flights resume later this year.
The camera-toting rover crested at Cape Tribulation Jan. 6, just ahead of the 11th anniversary of the robotic spacecraft’s Jan. 25, 2004, landing for a primary surface mission that was to last just three months.
Lockheed Martin is still holding out hope that it can claw its way back into a Polish air defense system competition after Warsaw rejected the Medium Extended Air Defense System (Meads) from a competition last year.
India is aiming to get overhaul orders from countries operating Sukhoi Su-30MKI fighters as state-run Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. (HAL) delivered the first reconditioned aircraft to the Indian air force (IAF).
The U.S. Navy warded additional Consolidated Afloat Networks & Enterprise Services (CANES) deals earlier this month just weeks after the Government General Accounting Office (GAO) recommended the service reevaluate its former CANES transactions.
Lower oil prices could give a boost to small general aviation aircraft, small and mid-size business aircraft, fractional ownership companies and service providers if they are sustained, an aviation consultant says.
