General Electric Co. - GE Aviation, Lynn, Massachusetts, has been awarded a $1,336,809,577 modification (P00021) to contract W58RGZ-15-D-0048 for T700 engine deliveries in support of the U.S. Army H-60 and AH-64 programs.
Boeing and startup Kitty Hawk have unveiled a joint venture that is developing the Cora two-seat electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing autonomous air taxi.
The Pentagon is “not concerned” with how the U.S. Air Force structured its launch services competition, even though the Government Accountability Office (GAO) partially sustained a protest by Blue Origin.
Airbus’ Silicon Valley outpost, A3 (A-cubed), has wrapped up testing on the Vahana autonomous electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) demonstrator, completing 138 flights totaling 13.4 hr.
The Pentagon cannot kick off its contract financing study until Congress passes and President Donald Trump signs an appropriations bill for fiscal 2020.
The 22 member states of the European Space Agency have agreed to fund the organization’s activities for a record €14.4 billion ($15.8 billion) over five years.
Though quite small, curious seasonal variations in concentrations of oxygen in the thin Martian atmosphere have scientists baffled and striving to provide an explanation.
The UK Tempest project—which includes the Royal Air Force, BAE Systems, Rolls-Royce and MBDA—leaves scope for Japan and other partners to use their own systems.
Indra says the project will develop a podded jammer capable of operating in a wide frequency spectrum and providing jamming alone or in concert with other platforms in an escort role.
Britain will invest £374 million ($483 million) with ESA over the next five years, helping secure its involvement in projects such as NASA’s Lunar Gateway, the Rosalind Franklin Mars Rover and programs to monitor climate change.
A British startup has unveiled a one-fifth scale model of an innovative lunar lander in partnership with a Ukrainian manufacturer, and plans to test another vehicle in the UAE.
Middle East countries and companies are not necessarily facing greater cyber security challenges than their contemporaries elsewhere in the world, says at least one company active in regional cyber security programs.
New communication systems and data links to improve interoperability are at the heart of a $1 billion upgrade to NATO’s fleet of Boeing E-3A Sentry airborne early warning aircraft.
The U.S. Navy has completed the final flight of the Lockheed P-3C Orion by an active duty squadron, closing out a 57-year era of maritime patrol flights by the four-engine, turboprop aircraft.
If proof were needed of the rapid pace of innovation in aerospace, attention should be paid to the Leonardo-Diamond collaboration, the DA62 MSA (Mission Surveillance Aircraft).
