Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

U.S. Navy sailors demonstrated the Electronic Warfare Battle Management (EWBM) for surface defense system during the recent Rim of Pacific (Rimpac)

ABOARD THE CNS HAIKOU/ABOARD THE USS RONALD REAGAN — President Ronald Reagan’s famous catchphrase, “Peace through strength,” features predominantly

The U.S. needs to consider changing its combatant command structure to mirror changes throughout the world, according to a recent report by the

U.S. Naval Facilities Engineering Command (Navfac) Hawaii Utilities Maintenance Division personnel took their new hybrid bucket truck into the field

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By Jen DiMascio
The U.S. Army’s aviation restructuring initiative, which would make the UH-72 Lakota helicopter its future training aircraft, is beginning to face

By Guy Norris
SAN DIEGO — Sierra Nevada Space Systems is readying the refurbished engineering test article (ETA) version of its Dream Chaser lifting body vehicle

MAKING BACN: Northrop Grumman will continue supporting the U.S. Air Force’s Battlefield Airborne Communications Node (BACN) comms gateway on the

After 10 years spent traveling more than 6 billion km through space, Europe’s Rosetta mission has arrived at its destination — 67P/Churyumov

LOGAN, Utah — Growing demand to launch cubesats and other small spacecraft is driving development of a wide range of concepts that build on the

Amphibious transport dock LPD 23 USS Anchorage completed its second Underway Recovery Test (URT-2) this week for NASA’s Orion Program. Initial trials

HOUSTON—Each state that competed for a favorable outcome in SpaceX’s launch-site decision has in some way advanced its ability to foster new business

By Tony Osborne
LONDON — The fuselage for the first Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) destined for NATO’s Alliance Ground Surveillance (AGS) operations has

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Engineers are making progress in their efforts to unravel the late June parachute failure that marred an otherwise successful test of potential

LOGAN, Utah— Steve Jurvetson, one of the most successful venture capitalists on Sand Hill Road – the Wall Street of Silicon Valley – says he spent 10

ASIASAT 8: SpaceX marked its fourth launch so far this year with the successful early morning orbiting of the AsiaSat 8 communications satellite on

JAKARTA, Indonesia—Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 was never detected on Indonesian radar because the aircraft never flew over Indonesian air space

By Guy Norris
SAN DIEGO—After months of rumors, Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) has confirmed it will develop a commercial launch site at Boca Chica Beach

HOUSTON—The NASA-funded National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI) is seeking competitive research proposals for the development of

Global powers must get a better handle on the climatic changes in the Arctic and what the geopolitical effects will be, according to a recent report

The Arleigh-Burke class guided-missile destroyer DDG 100 USS Kidd and members of the George Washington Carrier Strike Group participated in a

By Jay Menon
NEW DELHI—Amid fears that India’s long-delayed Intermediate Jet Trainer (IJT) project may slip even further due to weight issues, India’s defense

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